Chapter 2 Presupposing Democracy: Placing Politics in the Urban

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

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

Chapter 5 Where Is the ‘Organisation’ in the Urban Political?

Chapter 6 Neoliberalizing Infrastructure and Its Discontents: The Bus Rapid Transit Project in Dar es Salaam

Chapter 7 Infrastructure, ‘Seeing Sanitation’ and the Urban Political in an Era of Late Neoliberalism

Chapter 8 The ‘Cooperative’ or ‘Cop-Out’ Council? Urban Politics at a Time of Austerity Localism in London

Chapter 9 The Politics of Consultation in Urban Development and Its Encounters with Local Administration

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

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

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

Chapter 13 Counter Publics and Counter Spaces