Cities in Search of Freedom

European Municipalities against the Leviathan
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5292-1632-5
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 150 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 372 g

Over the past decades the nation state lost its political primacy by processes of devolution, Europeanisation and globalisation, which in turn enhanced municipal autonomy. Why do some cities seek to sidestep the state and widen their sphere of action?

Bridging political geography, local politics and urban sociology, this book gives a new perspective on the state’s weakening authority and the parallel rise of cities as political actors. The author considers the tensions between central states and European cities, giving a new perspective to students and researchers in the social sciences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mocca, Elisabetta

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie Politische Geographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Kommunal-, Regional-, und Landesverwaltung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

2. The Ebbs and Flows of Cities as Political Actors

3. The Persistence of Urban Identity in the Global World

4. Fleeing the State

5. The Municipalisation of the European Political Space

6. Civitas Activa: The Mobilising Potential of Cities

7. A Municipal Way Out?

Über Autor(innen)

Elisabetta Mocca is Usal for Excellence Fellow in the Department of Sociology and Communication, University of Salamanca.