Afterword: Into the Pandemic
Afterword: Into the Pandemic
The book concludes that in the period preceding COVID-19, five cross-cutting characteristics were prominent in shaping urban political (dis)orders: economic rationalism, weakening hegemony, the retreat to dominance, weak counter-hegemony and acute politicisations. Economic rationalism, administrative dominance and weak counter-hegemony tended to reinforce austere neoliberalism, while weakening hegemony and diminishing co-optive power created space for politicisations. How these pre-existing characteristics evolve will be important determinants of (un)governability as the pandemic, and struggle over its construals, evolve. The afterword reconsiders these themes to highlight issues that could reproduce, amplify or disturb the urban political (dis)orderings discussed in the book.
Keywords: Regime, Hegemony, Counter-hegemony, Dominance, Rationalism, Politicisations, Pandemic, COVID-19, Post-COVID
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