The cultural-political turn in the studies of urban power
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Urban power, Urban politics, Cultural Turn, Institutions, Discourse
Abstract
This article aims to rescue the political foundations of urban political analysis, leaving behind its economism. To this end, this paper establishes a dialogue between this sub-discipline of political science that studies “urban power” and Cultural Political Economy, a new theory that seeks to re-explore the possibilities of political economy after taking seriously the cultural and linguistic turns that have become widespread on the social sciences in the last two decades. The contribution is then centered in examining how the theoretical changes introduced by CPE, and particularly those that draw on the contributions of Antonio Gramsci, Michel Foucault and Chantal Mouffe, have an impact on the study of urban power, especially after adopting their concepts of hegemony, antagonism, discourse, power technologies and the process of co-evolution between discourses and institutions on which the EPC builds its main contribution.
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Cochrane, A., 1999, “Redefining urban politics for the twenty-first cen-tury”, en: Jonas, A. E. G. – Wilson, D. (eds.) Urban Growth Machines: Critical Perspectives Two Decades Later. Albany: State University of New York Press, pp. 109–124.
Dahl, R., 1961, Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an American City. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Dean, M., 1994, Critical and effective histories: Foucault’s methods and histo-rical sociology. London: Routledge.
Elkin, S. L., 1987, City and regime in the American republic. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press.
Fairclough, N. – Jessop, B. – Sayer, A., 2001, Critical Realism and Semiosis. Disponible en: http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/lnc/lncarchive.html (Consul-tado, junio de 2003).
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Fairclough, N., 2001, “Critical discourse analysis as a method in social scientific research”, en: R. Wodak – M. Meyer. (eds.) Methods of critical discourse analysis. London: Sage.
Fairclough, N., 2003, Analysing Discourse: Textual Analysis for Social re-search. London: Routledge.
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Jessop, B., 2003, Cultural Political Economy, the Knowledge-Based Economy, and the State. Available from http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/lnc/lncarchive.html [Revisado en Julio de 2003].
Jessop, B., 2004, “Critical Semiotic Analysis and Cultural Political Eco-nomy”, en: Critical Discourse studies, vol. 1). no. 1). pp. 159-174.
Jessop, B., 2006, From micro-powers to governmentality: Foucault’s work on statehood, state formation, statecraft and state power, Political Geogra-phy, Available from: doi:10.1016/j.polgeo. [Consultado el 8 de febrero de 2006].
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Logan, J. R. – Molotch, H., 1987, Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Macleod, G. – Goodwin, M., 1999, “Space, scale and state strategy: re-thinking urban and regional governance”, en: Progress in Human Geogra-phy, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 503-527.
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Mouffe, C., 2005, The return of the political. London: Verso.
Peterson, P., 1981, City Limits. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
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Sayer, A., 2000, Realism and Social Science. London: Sage.
Sayer, A., 2001, “For a Critical Cultural Political Economy”, en: Antipode, Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 687-708.
Stone, C., 1987, The study of the politics of urban development, en Cla-rence Stone y Heywood Sanders (Eds.) The Politics of Urban development.Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, pp. 3-22.
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Stone, C., 2005, “Looking Back to Look Forward: Reflections on Urban Regime Analysis”, en: Urban Affairs Review, 40, pp. 309-341.
Stoker, G., Mossberger, K., 1994, “Urban regime theory in comparative perspective”, en: Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 195-212.
Stoker, G. – Mossberger, K., 2001, “The evolution of urban regime theory: the challenge of Conceptualization”, en: Urban Affairs Review, Vol. 36, No. 6, pp. 810-835.
Sum, N. L., 2003, From ‘Integral State’ to ‘Integral World Order’: Towards a Neo-Gramscian Cultural International Political Economy. Presentado en Con-ferencia de CPE, disponible en, www.internationalgramscisociety.org/com-munications/images_of_gramsci.html [consultado en 28 de julio (2006].
Sum, N. L., 2007, Demologos Thematic Synthesis. Paper 4: Culture, Dis-course, Ideology and Hegemony. Documento interno no publicado. De-partment of Politics and International Relations, Lancaster University.
Wodak, R., 2001, “What is CDA about?”, en: R. Wodak – M. Meyer (eds.) Methods of critical discourse analysis. London: Sage.
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Leyva Botero, S. (2012). The cultural-political turn in the studies of urban power. Co-Herencia, 9(16), 215–246. https://doi.org/10.17230/co-herencia.9.16.8
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Santiago Leyva Botero, Universidad EAFIT
Doctor en Administración Pública, Universidad de Lancaster, Inglaterra. Profesor y jefe del pregrado en Ciencias Políticas, Universidad EAFIT, Medellín-Colombia. Miembro del Grupo de Investigación Estudios sobre Política y Lenguaje (cat. A1-Colciencias).Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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