The Politics of the Encounter: Urban Theory and Protest under Planetary Urbanization

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The Politics of the Encounter GEOGRAPHIES OF JUSTICE AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION Series editors Deborah Cowen, University of Toronto Nik Heynen, University of Georgia Melissa W. Wright, Pennsylvania State University Advisory board Sharad Chari, London School of Economics Bradon Ellem, University of Sydney Gillian Hart, University of California, Berkeley Andrew Herod, University of Georgia Jennifer Hyndman, York University Larry Knopp, University of Washington, Tacoma Heidi Nast, DePaul University Jamie Peck, University of British Columbia Frances Fox Piven, City University of New York Laura Pulido, University of Southern California Paul Routledge, University of Glasgow Bobby Wilson, University of Alabama The Politics of the Encounter URBAN THEORY AND PROTEST UNDER PLANETARY URBANIZATION ANDY MERRIFIELD The University of Georgia Press Athens and London Publication of this work was made possible, in part, by a generous gift from the University of Georgia Press Friends Fund.© 2013 by the University of Georgia Press Athens, Georgia 30602 www.ugapress.org All rights reserved Set in Minion and Trade Gothic by Graphic Composition, Inc., Bogart, GA. Printed digitally Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Merrifield, Andy. The politics of the encounter : urban theory and protest under planetary urbanization / Andy Merrifield. pages cm. — (Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 19) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn-13: 978-0-8203-4529-1 (hardcover : alk. paper) isbn-10: 0-8203-4529-6 (hardcover : alk. paper) isbn-13: 978-0-8203-4530-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) isbn-10: 0-8203-4530-X (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Sociology, Urban. 2. Urbanization. 3. Social justice. 4. Lefebvre, Henri, 1901–1991. I. Title. ht151.m445 2013 307.76—dc23 2012046528 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available ISBN for digital edition: 978-0-8203-4581-9 To the memory of Herbert Muschamp, 1947–2007 At every moment of the encounter, I discover in the other another myself: You like this? So do I! You don’t like that? Neither do I! Roland Barthes Yet is no body present here which was not there before. Only is order othered. James Joyce ...