Book Review: Promises of the Political: Insurgent Cities in a Post-Political Environment

Abstract

Introduction : promises of the political -- Part I: Post-democracy : thinking (post-)politicization -- The Janus face of governance-beyond-the-state -- Interrogating post-democratization : post politicization as techno-mnagerial governance -- Theorizing the political difference : "politics" and "the political" -- Part II: Practices of post-politicization -- Post-politicizing the environment : "ecology as the new opium for the masses" -- Hotting up : climate change as post-politicizing populism -- Urbanization and environmental futures : politicizing urban political ecologies -- Part III: Specters of the political -- Insurgent architects, radical cities, and the spectral return of the political -- Exploring the idea of emancipatory geographies for the 21st century