Much of the democratic world has entered a ‘post-political’ era, where politics proper has been negated by representational democracy and suppressed by the generalising tendencies of neoliberalism. Georgia is an extreme example of this paradigmatic condition - its fledgling democracy has been consistently undermined by a multitude of economic, political and territorial pressures. This post-political situation is reflected in its systems of urban governance, which emphasise consensus through bureaucracy, suppressing meaningful citizen or NGO participation. The potential for political spatial form actualised through a political urbanism is therefore in perpetual conflict with the homogenising tendencies of capitalist urbanisation and hegemonic liberalism. This publication will address this condition on three fundamental levels; the political, the material and the programmatic, with the intention of composing an agonistic urbanism with conflictual discourse as its central foundation.
