Urban Cosmopolitics : Agencements, Assemblies, Atmospheres (Paperback)

Introduction:

1. Introducing urban cosmopolitics: Multiplicity and the search for a common world
Ignacio Farias & Anders Blok

Section 1: Agencements

2. Saving (in) a common world: Cosmopolitical instances from a low budget urbanities perspective
Birke Otto & Alexa Farber

3. Infrastructural becoming: sanitation, cosmopolitics and the (un)making of urban life at the margins
Michele Lancione & Colin McFarlane

4. Im/mutable im/mobiles: From the socio-materiality of cities towards a differential cosmopolitics Michael Guggenheim

Section 2: Assemblies

5. Exploring urban controversies on retail diversity. An inquiry into the cosmopolitics of markets in the city
Alexandre Mallard

6. Manifestations of the Market: Public Audiences, and the Cosmopolitics of Voice in Buenos Aires Nicholas D’Avella

7. The politics and aesthetics of assembling: (un)building the common in Hackney Wick, London
Isaac Marrero-Guillamon

8. Matters of sense: pre-occupation in Madrid’s popular assemblies movement
Adolfo Estalella & Alberto Corsin Jimenez

Section 3: Atmospheres

9. The aesthetic composition of a common memory: Atmospheres of revalued urban ruins
Hanna Katharina Gobel

10. The cosmopolitics of ‘niching’. Rendering the city habitable along infrastructures of mental health care
Milena D. Bister, Martina Klausner & Jorg Niewohner

11. Water and Air: Territories, tactics and the elemental textility of urban cosmopolitics
Manuel Tironi & Nerea Calvillo


Afterword:

12. Whose urban cosmos, which urban cosmopolitics? Assessing the route travelled and the one ahead
Anders Blok & Ignacio Farias