Boano, C;
(2016)
Jerusalem as a paradigm: Agamben's ‘whatever urbanism’ to rescue urban exceptionalism.
City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action
, 20
(3)
pp. 455-471.
10.1080/13604813.2016.1166697.
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Abstract
Can Jerusalem be considered a paradigm in urban studies and urban theory? Widening the debate over the ‘contested’ and the ‘ordinary’, this paper tries to address such questions whilst engaging with Giorgio Agamben’s powerful concept of paradigms. Considering Jerusalem a super, hyper-exceptional case trapped in the tension between particularism and exceptionalism, the paper reflects on Agamben’s approach to examples—or paradigms—which deeply engage the powers of analogy, enabling discernment between previously unseen affinities among singular objects by stepping outside established systems of classification. The paper suggests a possible new concept, ‘whatever urbanism’, to disentangle the apparent dichotomy between ‘ordinary’ and ‘contested’ as urban labels.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Jerusalem as a paradigm: Agamben's ‘whatever urbanism’ to rescue urban exceptionalism |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13604813.2016.1166697 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2016.1166697 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in City on 1st July 2016, available online at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13604813.2016.1166697 |
| Keywords: | Jerusalem, Agamben, Paradigm |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Development Planning Unit |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1476568 |
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