The first English-language introduction to the leading 'queer' theorist.
The New Urban Question is an exuberant and illuminating adventure through our current global urban condition, tracing the connections between radical urban theory and political activism.
From Haussmann's attempts to use urban planning to rid 19th-century Paris of workers revolution to the contemporary metropolis, including urban disaster-zones such as downtown Detroit, Merrifield reveals how the urban experience has been profoundly shaped by class antagonism and been the battle-ground for conspiracies, revolts and social eruptions.
Going beyond the work of earlier urban theorists such as Manuel Castells, Merrifield identifies the new urban question that has emerged and demands urgent attention, as the city becomes a site of active plunder by capital and the setting for new forms of urban struggle, from Occupy to the Indignados.
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'Merrifield is accessible, optimistic and even fun' -- New York Times 'An exciting writer who brings a fresh perspective to the political debate' -- New Internationalist 'Read Merrifield, whose writing is a breath of fresh air in an increasingly arid intellectual field' -- Duncan Bowie, The Chartist
| Preface: Neo-Haussmannization and its Discontents |
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2 Old Urban Questions Revisited (and Reconstituted) |
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4 Strategic Embellishment and Urban Civil War |
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5 Sentimental Urban Education |
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7 Old Discourse on New Inequality |
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8 Every Revolution has Its Agora |
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9 Taking Back Urban Politics |
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10 Whose City? The Parasites', of course... |
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| Afterword: The Parasitic Mode of Urbanization |
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Andy Merrifield is a Fellow of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge and the author of numerous books including The New Urban Question, (Pluto, 2014) Magical Marxism (Pluto, 2011) and The Wisdom of Donkeys (Short Books, 2009).
