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Unlocking the mind-trap: Politicising urban theory and practice

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  • Erik Swyngedouw

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This contribution offers a critical engagement with the Critical Commentary paper of Beveridge and Koch (2017) entitled ‘The postpolitical trap? Reflections on politics, agency and the city’. I argue that post-politicisation as a particular form of de-politicisation does not imply the disappearance of politics. On the contrary, it involves the re-ordering of the modalities of politics (contentious or otherwise) and of the possibilities of the political with far-reaching consequences for the modalities of egalitarian and emancipatory urban change. I explore the key contours of the post-politicisation argument and develop the thesis that ‘the political’ can never be foreclosed fully.

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  • Erik Swyngedouw, 2017. "Unlocking the mind-trap: Politicising urban theory and practice," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 54(1), pages 55-61, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:54:y:2017:i:1:p:55-61
    DOI: 10.1177/0042098016671475
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