1. Introduction: Locating the Political in Late Neoliberalism -- 2. Presupposing Democracy: Placing Politics in the Urban -- 3. Desiring the Common in the Post-crisis Metropolis: Insurgencies, Contradictions, Appropriations -- 4. The Globalized City as a Locus of the Political: Logistical Urbanization, Genealogical Insights, Contemporary Aporias -- 5. Where is the ‘Organisation’ in the Urban Political? -- 6. Neoliberalizing Infrastructure and its Discontents: The Bus Rapid Transit Project in Dar es Salaam -- 7. Infrastructure, ‘Seeing Sanitation’ and the Urban Political in an era of Late Neoliberalism -- 8. The ‘Cooperative’ or ‘Cop-out’ Council? Urban Politics at a time of Austerity Localism in London -- 9. The Politics of Consultation in Urban Development and its Encounters with Local Administration -- 10. Precarity, Surplus, and the Urban Political: Shack Life in South Africa -- 11. Voice or Noise? Spaces of Appearance and Political Subjectivity in the London Riots 2011 -- 12. The Southern Urban Political in Transcalar Perspective: A View from the Squatter Movements of Belo Horizonte -- 13. Counter Publics and Counter Spaces.