@article{ref1,
title="Unlocking the mind-trap: politicising urban theory and practice",
journal="Urban studies",
year="2017",
author="Swyngedouw, Erik",
volume="54",
number="1",
pages="55-61",
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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0042-0980",
doi="10.1177/0042098016671475",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098016671475"
}