Citation

Swyngedouw E. Urban Stud. 2017; 54(1): 55-61.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Urban Studies Journal Limited, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0042098016671475

PMID

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Abstract

This contribution offers a critical engagement with the Critical Commentary paper of Beveridge and Koch (2017) entitled 'The postpolitical trap? Reflections on politics, agency and the city'. I argue that post-politicisation as a particular form of de-politicisation does not imply the disappearance of politics. On the contrary, it involves the re-ordering of the modalities of politics (contentious or otherwise) and of the possibilities of the political with far-reaching consequences for the modalities of egalitarian and emancipatory urban change. I explore the key contours of the post-politicisation argument and develop the thesis that 'the political' can never be foreclosed fully.

Language: en