Book Review: Promises of the Political: Insurgent Cities in a Post-Political Environment

Badiou A (2008) The communist hypothesis. New Left Review 49: 29–42.

Lawhon M. Ernstson H. Silver J (2014) Provincializing urban political ecology: towards a situated UPE through African Urbanism. Antipode 46(2): 497–516.doi:10.1111/anti.12051

Marchart O (2007) Post-Foundational Political Thought: Political difference in Nancy, Lefort, Badiou and Laclau. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Swyngedouw E (2005) Governance innovation and the citizen: the Janus face of Governance-beyond-the-State. Urban Studies 42(11): 1991–2006.doi:10.1080/00420980500279869

Swyngedouw E (2009) The antinomies of the postpolitical city: in search of a Democratic politics of environmental production. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 33(3): 601–620.doi:10.1111/j.1468-2427.2009.00859.x

Swyngedouw E (2010) The communist hypothesis and revolutionary Capitalisms: exploring the idea of Communist Geographies for the twenty-first century. Antipode 41(3): 298–319.doi:10.1111/j.1467-8330.2009.00727.x

Wilson J. Swyngedouw E (2014) Seeds of dystopia: pots-politics and the return of the political. In: Wilson J. Swyngedouw E. (eds) The Post-Political and its Discontents: Spaces of Depoliticization, Spectres of Radical Politics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 1–24.