Politics of Space: From the Experience to the Struggle Over Urban Space

• Authors: Gawin Magdalena
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The main goal of the article is to show the possibility and necessity of thinking of urban space in the political perspective. In order to do that, I present set of tools elaborated by David Harvey in his text “Space as a Key Word”. They can be used to analyze different types of space – particularly urban space – in an orderly way. I then use those tools to examine one type of urban space, which is the “scattered city”. This example and its critique allow me to link scattered cities with a certain type of politics. In the next step I show a selected range of political problems, questions, and convictions connected with urban space.

Keywords

EN

urban space; scattered city; politics of space; neoliberalism; public space

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski
• Journal: Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 3(5)
• Pages: 74–89

Dates

published

2018-11-08

Contributors

author

Gawin Magdalena

• Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw

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Identifiers

DOI

10.26319/5816