{"product_id":"kent-sinif-iktidar","title":"City, Class, Power","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book, written by Castells in the late 1970s, remains relevant today. In this study, focusing on urban struggles, particularly in France and the United States, and their potential to transform into urban social movements, the author demonstrates that a comprehensive analysis of cities can only be achieved by understanding the relationships between social class, politics, and power. Castells emphasizes that a secondary structural contradiction is deepening in the realm of collective consumption (housing, education, health, culture, commerce, transportation), which underlies the daily lives of all social groups, and that this contradiction is gaining increasing importance in social organization and can initiate a process of change through social movements. Castells states that the deepening contradictions in the field of collective consumption and the crisis experienced by the state in this area affect not only the working class but all strata of society;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The housing crisis extends far beyond the working class; the public transport crisis concerns everyone who has to go to work every day; the lack of nurseries and care homes affects all women. The social and functional segregation of space benefits only a small minority of the ruling elite; pollution, meanwhile, largely constitutes an indivisible problem. Yet if these antagonisms affect a large part of society, they are not inevitably 'natural' outcomes peculiar to the 'urban environment'; they are determined by historically defined social relations. The contradictions that arise in societies such as ours, in this particular form, stem from the capitalist organization of production and consumption and from state intervention, largely dominated by the power bloc formed around the dominant fraction of finance capital. (...) Therefore, the relationship between the city and power is at the heart of the current urban problematic, for if power shapes the city, the movements it engenders will also play a strategic role in the transformation of power.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Yayınevi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39408966664387,"sku":"9786054657964","price":720.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/3950\/7395\/products\/9786054657964.jpg?v=1616017415","url":"https:\/\/yemkitabevi.com\/en-us\/products\/kent-sinif-iktidar","provider":"YEM Kitabevi","version":"1.0","type":"link"}