Beveridge, Ross
How Cities Can Transform Democracy
- ISBN 13:
- 9781509545995
- author:
- Beveridge, Ross
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Polity Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2023
- Pages:
- 200
- Dimensions:
- 21.3 x 13.7 x 2 centimetres (0.2
- Genre:
- Nonfiction, Social Sciences, Sociology,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
How Cities Can Transform Democracy challenges conventional understandings of democracy and presents a novel way of seeing it as a city. By shifting scholarly and activist perspectives from institutions to practices, this book argues that urbanization undermines the established certainties of nation-state politics.
The authors explore how distinctly urban forms of collective self-rule are already apparent in cities around the world. They reclaim the 'city' as a democratic idea, seeing it as instrumental to relocating democracy in the everyday lives of urbanites.
Original and hopeful, this book compels readers to abandon traditional notions of democracy and embrace new vocabularies and practices of democratic action in the struggles for our urban future.
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