‘Event, politics, and space: Rancière or Badiou’?

Bassett, Keith

doi:10.1080/13562576.2016.1233737

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“…Through re‐remembering the post‐war squatting movements, we therefore rediscover a politics of effraction or “forced entry” which “carries something of the violence of a revolutionary tradition … in refiguring the division of the sensory to allow the speech of [the poor] to be heard” (Davis :99). Put differently, a politics of forced entry is that which allows an “irruption of the so‐far invisible, unheard, part of no part” (Bassett :287) or a politics which can “make non‐sense appear” (Burgum ) and, by rediscovering this tradition, we might well open up the possibility for similar actions in the present.…”

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From Grenfell Tower to the Home Front: Unsettling Property Norms Using a Genealogical Approach

Burgum

2018

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The Grenfell fire was symbolic of an unequal urban landscape closely tied to material and aesthetic norms around property ownership and entitlement. The aim of this paper is to unsettle these norms by advancing a novel genealogical approach. Through systematic review of government archives seldom studied by property researchers, historical comparisons are mobilised to challenge the taken-for-granted way in which we approach property and ownership today. It is shown how, in the face of a comparable housing crisis and direct action, both Churchill's and Atlee's post-war governments temporarily overlooked property norms by extending wartime requisitioning powers. Going further, however, the paper argues that by revisiting history, we can also rediscover a legacy of "forced entry" that might open up political possibilities in the present. By advancing a genealogical approach to ownership, the paper contributes to wider discussions around property norms, concluding that we have before (and can again) enact property differently.

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Section: The Poor: Voice Appearance and The Politics Of Forced Entrymentioning

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From Grenfell Tower to the Home Front: Unsettling Property Norms Using a Genealogical Approach

Burgum

2018

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“…The difference with Badiou’s event thus hinges on the notion of organisation. As noted by Bassett (2016), both Rancière and Badiou ‘ agree that real politics must also be a mode of radical subjectivization, but Badiou’s criticism is that Rancière fails to see that any such subjectivization must also be an organized and disciplined process ’ (p. 282). Badiou’s focus on organised action – be it in the case of the mass rebel or the state revolutionary – provides a different way out of the ‘post-political condition’ in planning.…”

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“…However, in Logics of Worlds (originally published in 2006; translated into English in 2009), Badiou posits that events can be brought about by two ‘evental’ figures, one working against the state (the mass rebel) and the other working from within the state (the state revolutionary). While the figure of the state revolutionary has been neglected by Badiou’s proponents (Bassett, 2016; Swyngedouw, 2011) and critics alike (Hannah, 2016), it has a lot to offer to those working on the politics of planning.…”

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“…revolutionary). While the figure of the state revolutionary has been neglected by Badiou's proponents (Bassett, 2016;Swyngedouw, 2011) and critics alike (Hannah, 2016), it has a lot to offer to those working on the politics of planning. This is because the figure of the state revolutionary complicates the consensus/conflict dichotomy that has crystallised opposition to the reception of the work of Jacques Rancière and Alain Badiou (among others) in the social sciences -both of which draw a distinction between the everyday modifications that take place in parliamentary democracies and those moments in which the pursuit of equality brings about a significant reworking of the social order.…”

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Badiou, Haussmann and Saint-Simon: Opening spaces for the state and planning between ‘post-politics’ and urban insurgencies

Paccoud

2018

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The post-political literature – which equates ‘the political’ with insurgencies directed against the state – has only limited relevance for planning, focused as it is on the ways in which conflict is displaced from the functioning of the state apparatus. The post-political literature has however neglected a significant change in Alain Badiou’s conceptualisation of the relation between the political and the state: the introduction of a political subject which acts from the within the state – what he calls the state revolutionary. This figure, which makes ‘evental’ planning possible, is fleshed out through a Saint-Simonian reading of Haussmann’s planning practice in his first years as Prefect of the Seine.

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“…Both Jacques Rancière and Alain Badiou are customarily associated with the philosophy of the event (or interruption) (Bassett 2016). While that is undoubtedly correct, the status of “the event” is rarely critically examined.…”

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From Disruption to Transformation: Politicisation at a Distance from the State

Swyngedouw

2020

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In this afterword to the symposium on processes of politicisation of activist struggles of undocumented migrants and their allies, I first briefly outline a number of key commonalities that run through the symposium. I subsequently explore some of the wider theoretical and practical lessons to be drawn from the arguments advanced in its papers, and suggest a number of key themes and concerns to be explored further. In particular, this afterword suggests some possible avenues to both think through the limits of and tensions within forms of undocumented migrant activism, and chart theoretical and practical trajectories to move from the limitations of “the political event” to the possibilities of “a political sequence” that may actually change the instituted order.

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‘Event, politics, and space: Rancière or Badiou’?

Cited by 15 publications

References 28 publications

From Grenfell Tower to the Home Front: Unsettling Property Norms Using a Genealogical Approach

From Grenfell Tower to the Home Front: Unsettling Property Norms Using a Genealogical Approach

Badiou, Haussmann and Saint-Simon: Opening spaces for the state and planning between ‘post-politics’ and urban insurgencies

From Disruption to Transformation: Politicisation at a Distance from the State

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