Seeing Like a Theorist |
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Authors: | Loren King |
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Institution: | Department of Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University, , Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3C5 Canada |
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Abstract: | Warren Magnusson sees a problem endemic to political thought and practice: we see the world in ways that presume and reaffirm the necessity of a sovereign territorial state, on pain of violent disorder in its absence. The solution is to ‘see like a city’, shaking off the dualism of sovereignty versus anarchy and finding a richer space of political possibilities. I admire and applaud Magnusson's critical efforts to challenge dominant categories and illuminate possibilities, but these aims rest uneasily with his polemical contrast between sovereignty and cities. |
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Keywords: | cities sovereignty federalism subsidiarity political theory |
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