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Controlling the Capital: Political Dominance in the Urbanizing World

Editat de Tom Goodfellow, David Jackman
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 sep 2023
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 international license. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Authoritarianism is on the rise globally, with more than twice as many countries experiencing democratic decline as democratic enhancement in recent years. This has been occurring simultaneously with unprecedented rates of urbanization in many parts of the world, raising questions about the role of cities - often considered the focal points of democratic deepening - in this authoritarian turn. While most literature considers authoritarianism on the national scale, the chapters in this book train their gaze on capital cities, which as 'containers' of both capital and sovereignty are spaces in which authoritarian dominance is increasingly built, contested, maintained, and undone. Focusing on some of the world's fastest urbanizing regions - Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia - the book explores the multiple ways in which authoritarian regimes have been attempting to build and sustain long-term dominance in capital cities in order to meet the challenge of urban political resistance. The diverse selection of case studies presented here spans governing regimes that have recently tried to build urban dominance and spectacularly failed, as well as those that have managed to hold onto power by constantly evolving strategies for dominance that limit the potential for urban opposition to tip into regime overthrow. With chapters on Addis Ababa, Colombo, Dhaka, Harare, Kampala, and Lusaka, Controlling the Capital offers the first cross-regional comparative study of the relationship between cities and political dominance. It contributes to debates on authoritarianism and authoritarian durability, urbanization, political contestation and resistance, the politics of development, and the prospects for democracy.
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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

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.

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.