Chapter 1 Introduction: Locating the Political in Late Neoliberalism

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 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