Controlling the Capital
Authoritarianism is on the rise globally, with more than twice as many countries experiencing democratic decline as democratic enhancement in recent years. This has been occurring simultaneously with unprecedented rates of urbanization in many parts of the world, raising questions about the role of...
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2023
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| ऑनलाइन पहुंच: | OCN: 1396123932 |
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| description | Authoritarianism is on the rise globally, with more than twice as many countries experiencing democratic decline as democratic enhancement in recent years. This has been occurring simultaneously with unprecedented rates of urbanization in many parts of the world, raising questions about the role of cities—often considered the focal points of democratic deepening—in this authoritarian turn. With most literature on authoritarianism focusing on the national scale, in this book we train our gaze on capital cities, which as ‘containers’ of both capital and sovereignty are spaces in which authoritarian dominance is increasingly built, contested, maintained, and undone. Focusing on some of the world’s fastest urbanizing regions in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, the book explores the multiple ways in which authoritarian regimes have been attempting to build and sustain long-term dominance in capital cities in order to meet the challenge of urban political resistance. Our diverse selection of case studies spans governing regimes that have recently tried to build urban dominance and spectacularly failed, as well as those that have managed to hold onto power by constantly evolving strategies for dominance that limit the potential for urban opposition to tip into regime overthrow. With chapters on Addis Ababa, Colombo, Dhaka, Harare, Kampala, and Lusaka, this book offers the first cross-regional comparative study of the relationship between cities and political dominance. It contributes to debates on authoritarianism and authoritarian durability, urbanization, political contestation and resistance, the politics of development, and the prospects for democracy. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1288812025-03-20T15:50:17Z Controlling the Capital Goodfellow, Tom Jackman, David authoritarianism, city, urbanization, political dominance, urban politics, opposition, protest, Africa, South Asia Authoritarianism is on the rise globally, with more than twice as many countries experiencing democratic decline as democratic enhancement in recent years. This has been occurring simultaneously with unprecedented rates of urbanization in many parts of the world, raising questions about the role of cities—often considered the focal points of democratic deepening—in this authoritarian turn. With most literature on authoritarianism focusing on the national scale, in this book we train our gaze on capital cities, which as ‘containers’ of both capital and sovereignty are spaces in which authoritarian dominance is increasingly built, contested, maintained, and undone. Focusing on some of the world’s fastest urbanizing regions in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, the book explores the multiple ways in which authoritarian regimes have been attempting to build and sustain long-term dominance in capital cities in order to meet the challenge of urban political resistance. Our diverse selection of case studies spans governing regimes that have recently tried to build urban dominance and spectacularly failed, as well as those that have managed to hold onto power by constantly evolving strategies for dominance that limit the potential for urban opposition to tip into regime overthrow. With chapters on Addis Ababa, Colombo, Dhaka, Harare, Kampala, and Lusaka, this book offers the first cross-regional comparative study of the relationship between cities and political dominance. It contributes to debates on authoritarianism and authoritarian durability, urbanization, political contestation and resistance, the politics of development, and the prospects for democracy. 2023-12-01T04:04:16Z 2023-12-01T04:04:16Z 2023-11-30T10:47:33Z 2023 book OCN: 1396123932 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/85664 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/128881 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85664/1/9780192694478_WEB.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85664/1/9780192694478_WEB.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85664/1/9780192694478_WEB.pdf Oxford University Press 10.1093/oso/9780192868329.001.0001 10.1093/oso/9780192868329.001.0001 db4e319f-ca9f-449a-bcf2-37d7c6f885b1 University of Manchester a897f645-c917-4be8-a0db-e8b3f64cac47 289 Oxford open access |
| spellingShingle | authoritarianism, city, urbanization, political dominance, urban politics, opposition, protest, Africa, South Asia Controlling the Capital |
| title | Controlling the Capital |
| title_full | Controlling the Capital |
| title_fullStr | Controlling the Capital |
| title_full_unstemmed | Controlling the Capital |
| title_short | Controlling the Capital |
| title_sort | controlling the capital |
| topic | authoritarianism, city, urbanization, political dominance, urban politics, opposition, protest, Africa, South Asia |
| topic_facet | authoritarianism, city, urbanization, political dominance, urban politics, opposition, protest, Africa, South Asia |
| url | OCN: 1396123932 |