Urban politics now
Subtitle: re-imagining democracy in the neoliberal city
By: edited by BAVO ; [translation: Nicholas Lakides ... et al.].
Contributors: BAVO.; Jan van Eyck Akademie.
Series: Reflect -- #06; Reflect (Rotterdam, Netherlands) -- #06.
Publisher: NAi Publishers; Available in North, South and Central America through D.A.P.; NAi Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Rotterdam; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9789056626167
Subjects: Cities and towns -- Europe -- History -- 21st century -- Congresses.; Sociology, Urban -- Europe -- Congresses.; Urban policy -- Europe -- Congresses.; Metropolitan government -- Europe -- Congresses.; Neoliberalism -- Europe -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Re-imagining democracy in the neoliberal city
Notes: "This book is an offspring of the conference 'Psychoanalysis, Urban Theory, and the City of Late-Capitalism' organized by BAVO and Lorenzo Chiesa that took place in the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht on 18-20 November 2005."--P. 11.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Who's afraid of urban politics / BAVO [Gideon Boie and Matthias Pauwels]; title: Some politically incorrect reflections on urban violence in Paris and New Orleans and related matters / Slovoj Žižek; title: Revanchist city, revanchist planet / Neil Smith; title: The uses of deprivation in the neoliberal city / Guy Baeten; title: The post-political city / Erik Swyngedouw; title: Postmetropolitan psychasthenia: a spatioanalysis / Edward W. Soja; title: Global cities and anti-globalist resistance / Dieter Lesage; title: Amsterdam, the city as a business / Merijn Oudenampsen; title: False freedom: the construction of space in late capitalism / Friedrich von Borries and Matthias Böttger; title: Antinomies of space : from the representation of politics to a topology of the political / Yannis Stavrakakis; title: The city at the 'end of history' / Juliet Flower MacCannell; title: Barcode humans: on the fabrication of consumers in the super-market society / Henk van Houtum and Bas Spierings; title: Pervercity / Bülent Diken and Carsten Bagge Laustsen; title: Democracy & the neoliberal city: the Dutch case / BAVO.