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https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-18107| Publication type: | Article in scientific journal |
| Type of review: | Peer review (publication) |
| Title: | Contesting austerity, de-centring the state : anti-politics and the political horizon of the urban |
| Authors: | Beveridge, Ross Koch, Philippe |
| et. al: | No |
| DOI: | 10.1177/2399654419871299 10.21256/zhaw-18107 |
| Published in: | Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space |
| Volume(Issue): | 39 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Page(s): | 451 |
| Pages to: | 468 |
| Issue Date: | 31-Aug-2019 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Sage |
| ISSN: | 2399-6544 2399-6552 |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Austerity; Anti-politics; Urban movement; City; Local state; Berlin |
| Subject (DDC): | 320: Politics |
| Abstract: | This article draws novel links between ‘anti-politics’, austerity and a political horizon centred on the urban. Research on anti-politics often invokes a binary understanding of a politics of and within the state and an anti-politics at a distance from or hostile towards the state. This article argues that in the context of austerity, this binary loses traction. Austerity has intensified the transformation towards networked forms of governance within which the state becomes a more hybrid entity of contradictory ideals and practices. Austerity not only calls into question the legitimacy of formal politics because of its devastating social outcomes, it also disaggregates the political authority of the state and opens up a particularly urban terrain of politics. We capture this development by examining the intersections between the local state and the urban field of politics. Looking across the struggles against austerity in Europe, and focusing in more detail on housing politics in Berlin, we assert that the urban is important not only as a setting (as typically argued) but also as the basis for a different rationality of political action in and against austerity. In the context of austerity struggles, state authority becomes ever more contingent and other, more urban, forms of politics advance. In sum, the article contributes to a spatial reading of (anti-)politics against austerity, points to the de-centring of the state in transformative political projects and emphasizes the analytical purchase of a distinctly urban perspective on contemporary politics in Europe. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/18107 |
| Fulltext version: | Submitted version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | Licence according to publishing contract |
| Departement: | Architecture, Design and Civil Engineering |
| Organisational Unit: | Institute of Urban Landscape (IUL) |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen Architektur, Gestaltung und Bauingenieurwesen |
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Beveridge, R., & Koch, P. (2019). Contesting austerity, de-centring the state : anti-politics and the political horizon of the urban. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 39(3), 451–468. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654419871299
Beveridge, R. and Koch, P. (2019) ‘Contesting austerity, de-centring the state : anti-politics and the political horizon of the urban’, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 39(3), pp. 451–468. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654419871299.
R. Beveridge and P. Koch, “Contesting austerity, de-centring the state : anti-politics and the political horizon of the urban,” Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 451–468, Aug. 2019, doi: 10.1177/2399654419871299.
BEVERIDGE, Ross und Philippe KOCH, 2019. Contesting austerity, de-centring the state : anti-politics and the political horizon of the urban. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space. 31 August 2019. Bd. 39, Nr. 3, S. 451–468. DOI 10.1177/2399654419871299
Beveridge, Ross, and Philippe Koch. 2019. “Contesting Austerity, De-Centring the State : Anti-Politics and the Political Horizon of the Urban.” Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 39 (3): 451–68. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654419871299.
Beveridge, Ross, and Philippe Koch. “Contesting Austerity, De-Centring the State : Anti-Politics and the Political Horizon of the Urban.” Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, vol. 39, no. 3, Aug. 2019, pp. 451–68, https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654419871299.
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