TY - BOOK ID - 32766320 TI - Global urban politics : informalization of the state PY - 2017 SN - 9780745685496 9780745685502 9780745685526 9780745685533 PB - Cambridge Polity DB - UniCat KW - Sociology of environment KW - Political sociology KW - Cities and towns KW - Municipal government KW - Social movements KW - Urban ecology (Sociology) KW - Environmental policy KW - Villes KW - Administration municipale KW - Mouvements sociaux KW - Ecologie urbaine KW - Environnement KW - Politique gouvernementale UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32766320 AB - In what ways has global urbanization affected the political process? This book offers a reflection on the transformations of urban politics worldwide in the past four decades, from interpersonal street-level politics to transnational governing institutions. Organized thematically, the book examines urban social movements, diversity politics, environmental politics and security politics at a global level and argues that living in an urban world calls for a profound rethinking of how we act politically. Through ethnographic incursions into the worlds of youth activists, domestic workers, rioters, barrio bandits and peripheral villagers, among others, from Mexico City and Hanoi to Montreal and New York, the book makes a number of theoretical propositions to redefine the field of urban political studies. Extending the view of urban politics beyond municipal and metropolitan institutions to the broader political process in cities, this book will be invaluable to advanced students and scholars interested in our urban future. For, as Boudreau convincingly suggests, global urban life is political life. ER -