Politicization, postpolitics and the open city: Openness, closedness and the spatialisation of the political
Steve Pile,
Michael Keith,
Karim Murji
et al.
Abstract:The idea of the open city has been used both conceptually and analytically to understand the politics of the city. The contrast between the open city and the closed city relies, in part, upon an understanding of the global systems that enfold cities and, consequently, the politics that are – and are not – afforded cities. Notions such as the postpolitical city depend not on temporality where the city has ceased to be political, but a spatialisation of politics where the (properly) political has become excluded… Show more
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