This book is concerned with developing an in-depth understanding of contemporary political and spatial analyses of cities. In the three-part development of the book’s overall argument or premise, the reader is taken in Part I through a range of contemporary critical and political understandings of urban securitizing. This is followed by an historical urban landscape of emerging liberalism and neo-liberalism, in nineteenth-century Britain and twentieth-century United States, respectively. These case-study historical chapters enable the introduction of key political issues that are more critically assayed in Parts II and III. With Part II, the reader is introduced in depth to a series of spatial analyses undertaken by Michel Foucault that have been crucial for especially late-twentieth and twenty-first century urban theory and political geography. With Part III the full ramifications of a paradigmatic shift are explored at the level of rethinking territory, population and design.
This book is timely and useful for readers who want to develop a stronger understanding of what the book’s researchers term a new political paradigm in urban planning, one ultimately governed by global economic forces that define the end of probability.
Author(s): Mark Laurence Jackson, Mark Hanlen
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 483
City: Cham
Acknowledgements
Contents
Part IPolitics of Contagion
1 Urbanizing
1.1 Introduction
1.1.1 Two Contentions
1.1.2 Manifold Urbanisms
1.2 Security and Order
1.2.1 Post-conflict Cities
1.2.2 Divided Cities
1.2.3 Insurgent Citizens
1.3 Surveillance and Collectivity
1.3.1 De-modernization
1.3.2 Unjust Urbanisms
1.3.3 A Spinozist Ontology
1.3.4 Civil War Again
1.4 Planetary Urbanism
1.4.1 Urban Fabrics
1.4.2 The ‘Urban Age’
1.4.3 A New Epistemology
1.4.4 New Urban Spaces
1.4.5 Birth of the Urban
1.5 Conclusion
1.5.1 Governmentality of the Urban
1.5.2 Urbanizing Security
References
2 Cholera
2.1 Introduction
2.1.1 Social Medicine
2.2 Securing Disease
2.2.1 Noso-Politics
2.2.2 Somatocracy
2.2.3 Disease Does not Exist
2.2.4 Living Conditions and Pre-dispositions
2.2.5 Infection or Contagion
2.2.6 Aptitude and Immunity
2.2.7 Planetary Coding
2.3 Pandemics
2.3.1 The Cholera Epidemics
2.3.2 Treating Disease and Managing Risk: Differential Foci
2.3.3 Plague as Allegory in Civic Perfection
2.3.4 Urban Sanitation: The Bio-Politics of Liberalism
2.4 Biopolitics and Liberalism
2.4.1 Governmental Rationality of the Bio-Political: Liberalism
2.4.2 Neo-Liberalism and Environmental Responsibility
2.4.3 Greening the Entrepreneurial Self
2.5 Conclusion
2.5.1 Post-political Welfare
References
3 Sub-prime
3.1 Introduction
3.1.1 Economic Health
3.1.2 Households
3.1.3 Securitizing Health
3.1.4 Commercializing Disease
3.1.5 Technologies of Security
3.2 Welfare Housing
3.2.1 Urban Determinants of the Global Financial Crisis
3.2.2 Architectural Agency: The Crisis of Modern Architecture
3.2.3 The Interventionist City and Truman’s Fair Deal
3.2.4 Housing the Poor: Self-as-Enterprise
3.2.5 HOPE VI
3.2.6 Section 8: Housing Choice Vouchers
3.2.7 De-concentrating Poverty: Discipline and Control
3.3 Neoliberal Housing
3.3.1 Economic Welfare to Laissez-Faire
3.3.2 Subprime: Liberalising Home Ownership and the Market
3.3.3 Savings and Loans Crises: Secondary Mortgage Markets
3.3.4 Securitisation: Mortgage Market Complexity
3.3.5 Bad Credit I: Discrimination and Government Response
3.3.6 Bad Credit II: Subprime Mortgages and Predatory Lending
3.3.7 Forever Blowing Bubbles: Housing Market Exuberance
3.3.8 Deregulation: The Repeal of Glass-Steagall
3.4 The Global Financial Crash
3.4.1 The End of Risk I: Securitization of Securitization
3.4.2 The End of Risk II: Bad Ratings
3.4.3 The End of Risk III: Risk Models and the Rise of Quants
3.4.4 The Return of Risk: The Subprime Collapse
3.5 Conclusion
3.5.1 Developing a Risk-Free Private Sector
3.5.2 Malthusian Returns
References
Part IISecuring the Urban
4 Spatiality & Power
4.1 Introduction
4.1.1 Questions of Method
4.2 Reading Foucault
4.2.1 Requiem
4.2.2 Do not Ask Me Who I Am
4.2.3 Fragments of a Will-to-Know
4.3 The Hollow of Language
4.3.1 Spatialization and Verbalization: Spaces of Discourse
4.3.2 Continuities and Discontinuities
4.3.3 Archive, Episteme, Discourse, Historical a Priori
4.4 Conclusion
4.4.1 Fabula and Spacing
References
5 Governing Security
5.1 Introduction
5.1.1 Aleatory Language
5.2 The Exercise of Power
5.2.1 Truth and Power
5.2.2 Discipline
5.2.3 The Human Sciences
5.2.4 Normalization
5.3 Power/Knowledge
5.3.1 Genealogy
5.3.2 Power and Knowledge
5.3.3 The Dispositif
5.4 Governmentality
5.4.1 The Dispositif and the Urban
5.4.2 Governmentality and Security
5.4.3 Raison d’État
5.5 Conclusion
5.5.1 Political Economy
References
6 Biopolitical Urbanism
6.1 Introduction
6.1.1 Power, Strategy and Freedom
6.2 Freedom to Act
6.2.1 A Pre-Emptory ‘Afterword’
6.2.2 Power Over Others
6.3 Biopower
6.3.1 Biopower and Bio-Racism
6.3.2 Bio-Political Urbanism
6.3.3 Biopolitics and Discursive Events
6.3.4 Movement of Freedom
6.4 Destruction of Tradition
6.4.1 Freedom and Historical Ontology
6.4.2 Anonymity of the ‘It Is Said’
6.4.3 Destructing Historical Sources: Governmentality of News
6.4.4 Otherwise Than Who We Are
6.4.5 Alethurgy and Parrhēsia
6.5 Conclusion
6.5.1 Ēthos and Pathos
References
Part IIIPost-political Urbanism
7 Indistinct Politics
7.1 Introduction
7.1.1 This Living Being with Language
7.2 Alētheia Politeia Ēthos
7.2.1 Transforming the Soul
7.2.2 Ethical Differentiations
7.2.3 The Parrhesiastic Standpoint
7.2.4 Polis Andra Didaskei—The City Makes the Man
7.2.5 Lēthē
7.3 States of Exception
7.3.1 Parrhēsia and the Urban
7.3.2 States of Exception—Beyond Human Rights
7.3.3 Threshold: Zoē, Bios, and Intrusion of the State
7.3.4 Bio-Power and the Sacred Man
7.4 Dislocating Localizations
7.4.1 The Indistinct Political
7.4.2 The ‘Camp’
7.4.3 Space, Politics and Metaphysics
7.4.4 Foucault/Agamben
7.5 Conclusion
7.5.1 Uselessness
References
8 Common Use
8.1 Introduction
8.1.1 The Political Animal
8.2 The Lifedeath of Biopower
8.2.1 Origins and Traces
8.2.2 The Forgetting of Heidegger
8.2.3 Habitability of Lifedeath
8.3 Collectivity of the Multitude
8.3.1 Spatialities of Capital-Time
8.3.2 Radical Immanence of Being-With
8.3.3 Empire
8.3.4 Empire and Biopower
8.3.5 Agamben and Negri
8.3.6 Cities Without Citizens
8.3.7 Hospitality
8.4 Needing Use
8.4.1 Stowaway of the Political
8.4.2 Use—Χρή (khré)
8.4.3 Slaves to Be-ing’s Forgetting
8.4.4 Concernful Care
8.5 Conclusion
8.5.1 Habitual Impropriety
References
9 Cruel Festival
9.1 Introduction
9.1.1 Pandemics
9.2 SARS-CoV-2
9.2.1 Covid-19
9.2.2 Global Inadequate Responses
9.2.3 Crossroads
9.2.4 Herd Immunities
9.3 Communovirus
9.3.1 ‘The Enemy Is Not Outside’
9.3.2 Bio-Cultural ‘Indifference’
9.3.3 A ‘World’ Broken
9.3.4 Breaking Whatever Is Broken
9.3.5 Bio-Hazardous Humanity
9.4 Crypt of the Genome
9.4.1 Pharmakos
9.4.2 Writing Lifedeath
9.4.3 Writing the Blanks
9.4.4 Subtracting from Chance
9.4.5 Viral Writing Surfaces
9.5 Conclusion
9.5.1 Cruel Festival
9.5.2 Revolt’s Mythic Time
9.5.3 Viral Returns
References
