Urban Cosmopolitics

Anders Blok is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and co-author of Bruno Latour: Hybrid Thoughts in a Hybrid World (Routledge, 2011). Ignacio Farías is Assistant Professor in the Munich Center for Technology in Society and the Faculty of Architecture at the Technische Universität, München, Germany. He is co-editor of Urban Assemblages: How Actor-Network Changes Urban Studies (Routledge, 2009).

Introduction: 1. Introducing urban cosmopolitics: Multiplicity and the search for a common world, Ignacio Faríasand Anders Blok, Part 1: Agencements, 2. Saving (in) a common world: Cosmopolitical instances from a low budget urbanities perspective Alexa Färber and Birke Otto, 3. Infrastructural becoming: Sanitation, cosmopolitics, and the (un)making of urban life at the margins, Michele Lancioneand Colin McFarlane, 4. Im/mutable im/mobiles: From the socio-materiality of cities towards a differential cosmopolitics, Michael Guggenheim, Part 2: Assemblies, 5. Exploring urban controversies on retail diversity. An inquiry into the cosmopolitics of markets in the city, Alexandre Mallard 6. Manifestations of the market: Public audiences and the cosmopolitics of voice in Buenos Aires, Nicholas D’Avella 7. The politics and aesthetics of assembling: (Un)building the common in Hackney Wick, London, Isaac Marrero-Guillamón 8. Matters of sense: Preoccupation in Madrid’s popular assemblies movement, Adolfo Estalellaand Alberto Corsín Jiménez Part 3: Atmospheres 9. The aesthetic composition of a common memory: Atmospheres of revalued urban ruins, Hanna Katharina Göbel, 10. The cosmopolitics of ‘niching’. Rendering the city habitable along infrastructures of mental health care Milena D. Bister, Martina Klausnerand Jörg Niewöhner 11. Water and Air: Territories, tactics and the elemental textility of urban cosmopolitics Manuel Tironi & Nerea Calvillo, Part 4: Afterword 12. Whose urban cosmos, which urban cosmopolitics? Assessing the route travelled and the one ahead Anders Blokand Ignacio Farías