Genre and the City - Hardcover

This book’s chapters analyze aspects of urban politics with a combination of critical thinking (influenced by Walter Benjamin, Jacques Ranciere, Henri Lefebvre, and Achille Mbembe, among others) and readings of artistic genres (film, literature, and architecture). The coverage of cities includes, Tokyo, Paris, New York, Nairobi, Boston, Berlin and Hong Kong.

Michael J. Shapiro is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaii. Among his recent publications are Cinematice Geopolitics (Routledge, 2009) and The Time of the City: Politics, Philosophy and Genre (Routledge 2010).