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Urban Sustainability, Conflict Management, and the Geographies of Postpoliticism: A Case Study of Taipei

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  • Mike Raco

    (Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, Wates House, Gordon Street, London WC1H 0QB, England)

  • Wen-I Lin

    (Graduate Institute of Urban Planning, National Taipei University, 151 University Rd, San-Shia District, New Taipei City, 237 Taiwan)

Abstract

The concept of sustainability has been used by city governments worldwide to promote urban development. For some the term represents an archetypal postpolitical construct that enables urban populations and policy makers to confront collective problems in a consensus-driven way. In short, it enables a new conflict-free politics to emerge within cities. This paper uses the example of Taipei, Taiwan to explore how sustainable development agendas in a postcolonial city, which has a relatively young democratic system, are articulated and with what effects. It examines the utility of recent postpolitical writing as an explanatory frame for contemporary political changes. It documents how and in what ways postpolitical agendas have been established and how they have been used to nullify conflict by shifting attention away from grassroots concerns over globally oriented developmentalism.

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  • Mike Raco & Wen-I Lin, 2012. "Urban Sustainability, Conflict Management, and the Geographies of Postpoliticism: A Case Study of Taipei," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 30(2), pages 191-208, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envirc:v:30:y:2012:i:2:p:191-208
    DOI: 10.1068/c1199
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    1. Mike Raco & Rob Imrie & Wen‐I Lin, 2011. "Community Governance, Critical Cosmopolitanism and Urban Change: Observations from Taipei, Taiwan," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 35(2), pages 274-294, March.
    2. Erik Swyngedouw, 2009. "The Antinomies of the Postpolitical City: In Search of a Democratic Politics of Environmental Production," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 33(3), pages 601-620, September.
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