Urban politics and the social practices of critique and justification: Conceptual insights from French pragmatism

Progress in Human Geography

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 639-657

  Fuller, Crispian ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

assemblages; French pragmatism; neoliberalism; post democracy politics; urban politics

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRACY; NEOLIBERALISM; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLITICS;

FRANCE;

EID: 84884168985     PISSN: 03091325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309132512469763     Document Type: Review

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