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Mustafa Dike�'s Space, Politics and Aesthetics is philosophically profound, politically astute and conceptually powerful. Articulating critical geography with a politics of aesthetics, the work crosses disciplinary boundaries and provides an innovative intervention into contemporary social theory.--Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawai'i What if political action is the very invention of space? And what if we were to see this making of space as a work of art and imagination? With an artistry of his own, Mustafa Dike� brings Arendt, Nancy and Ranci�re into conversation with ordinary people shaping their own everyday worlds. The warmest of invitations into challenging political thought, Space, Politics, and Aesthetics is a celebration of the sheer joy of bringing shared spaces into being.--Nigel Clark, Lancaster University

Mustafa Dikeç's Space, Politics and Aesthetics is philosophically profound, politically astute and conceptually powerful. Articulating critical geography with a politics of aesthetics, the work crosses disciplinary boundaries and provides an innovative intervention into contemporary social theory.--Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawai'i What if political action is the very invention of space? And what if we were to see this making of space as a work of art and imagination? With an artistry of his own, Mustafa Dikeç brings Arendt, Nancy and Rancière into conversation with ordinary people shaping their own everyday worlds. The warmest of invitations into challenging political thought, Space, Politics, and Aesthetics is a celebration of the sheer joy of bringing shared spaces into being.--Nigel Clark, Lancaster University

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Mustafa Dikeç is Professor at the Ecole d’urbanisme de Paris. He is the author of Badlands of the Republic: Space, Politics and Urban Policy (2007, Blackwell), and co-editor of Extending Hospitality: Giving Space, Taking Time (2009, Edinburgh University Press). He is currently working on a book on urban revolts, Urban Rage (Yale University Press), and completing a research project on the politics of time in nineteenth-century Paris.

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