The Urban Political: Ambivalent Spaces of Late Neoliberalism

1. Introduction: Locating the Political in Late Neoliberalism

Part I: Theorizing the Urban Political

2. Presupposing Democracy: Placing Politics in the Urban

3. Desiring the Common in the Post-crisis Metropolis: Insurgencies, Contradictions, Appropriations

4. The Globalized City as a Locus of the Political: Logistical Urbanization, Genealogical Insights, Contemporary Aporias

Part II: Materializing the Urban Political

5. Where is the 'Organisation' in the Urban Political?

6, Neoliberalizing Infrastructure and its Discontents: The Bus Rapid Transit Project in Dar es Salaam

7. Infrastructure, 'Seeing Sanitation' and the Urban Political in an era of Late Neoliberalism

8. The 'Cooperative' or 'Cop-out' Council? Urban Politics at a time of Austerity Local

9. The Politics of Consultation in Urban Development and its Encounters with Local Administration

10. Precarity, Surplus, and the Urban Political: Shack Life in South Africa

Part IV: Re-politicizing the Urban Political

11. Voice or Noise? Spaces of Appearance and Political Subjectivity in the London Riots 2011

12. The Southern Urban Political in Transcalar Perspective: A View from the Squatter Movements of Belo Horizonte

13. Counter Publics and Counter Spaces