Controlling the Capital: Political Dominance in the Urbanizing World
Editat de Tom Goodfellow, David Jackmanen Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 sep 2023
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780192868329
ISBN-10: 0192868322
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 162 x 240 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0192868322
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 162 x 240 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Recenzii
Cities have long been viewed as a problem for authoritarian regimes. This fascinating edited volume provides a picture of the strategies used by authoritarian regimes to alternately woo and repress potentially restive urban populations. Goodfellow and Jackman lay out in a clear and cogent way how coercive and more positive 'generative' strategies coexist in urban settings, yielding more or less stable patterns of government control. This is an important book not just for urban scholars but for those more broadly interested in democratization and authoritarian durability.
The capital city has always been the foremost site of protracted struggles over power, prosperity, and livelihoods. This empirically rich and theoretically rigorous collection aptly positions the analytical lens on the capital to shed light on the contours of power contestations, compromises, and ultimately the political economy of change and transformation in Africa and South Asia. Timely and a vital contribution.
The battle for political control over capital cities is critical to the efforts of governments to contain the threat posed by dynamic opposition parties - and will only become more important as the continent becomes evermore urbanized. This is the best book yet on the subject, offering powerful insights into a wide range of important cases.
A timely book to understand processes of urban control in the rapidly urbanizing developing world. Taking six capital cities as key spaces of political action, the book provides a trenchant analysis of how authoritarian regimes enmesh urban citizens, repress/prevent dissent among others by co-opting key actors and sections of society, to ensure political domination and authoritarian durability.
The capital city has always been the foremost site of protracted struggles over power, prosperity, and livelihoods. This empirically rich and theoretically rigorous collection aptly positions the analytical lens on the capital to shed light on the contours of power contestations, compromises, and ultimately the political economy of change and transformation in Africa and South Asia. Timely and a vital contribution.
The battle for political control over capital cities is critical to the efforts of governments to contain the threat posed by dynamic opposition parties - and will only become more important as the continent becomes evermore urbanized. This is the best book yet on the subject, offering powerful insights into a wide range of important cases.
A timely book to understand processes of urban control in the rapidly urbanizing developing world. Taking six capital cities as key spaces of political action, the book provides a trenchant analysis of how authoritarian regimes enmesh urban citizens, repress/prevent dissent among others by co-opting key actors and sections of society, to ensure political domination and authoritarian durability.
Notă biografică
Tom Goodfellow is a Professor of Urban Studies and International Development at the University of Sheffield. His research focuses on the comparative political economy of urban development in Africa, particularly the politics of urban land and transportation, conflicts around infrastructure and housing, migration, and urban institutional change. He is author of Politics and the Urban Frontier: Transformation and Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa (OUP, 2022) and co-author of Cities and Development (Routledge 2016).David Jackman is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. His research interests lie in the political economy of crime and violence in South Asia, with a focus on Bangladesh, where he has worked since 2010. His work on gangsterism, labour politics, party-police relations, and beggar bosses have been published in journals such as Development and Change, Modern Asian Studies, and Journal of Contemporary Asia. His current project examines the pirates of the Sundarbans in Bangladesh and West Bengal.