This Special Issue explores the problematique of the consensus and conflict binary that has emerged in the critical analysis of the post-political urban condition. Focusing on the interstitial spaces existing between consensus and conflict reveals a more relational dynamic that positions consensus and conflict as co-constitutive and continuously being shaped by the performance of politics by state and non-state actors. Critiques of the post-political tend to fail to engage with the conditions that lead to citizen actors acting in political ways beyond the formal processes of planning and decision-making, or when consensus or conflict is used by oppressive politics to produce exclusion and reproduce inequality. In addition to introducing the five papers appearing in this special issue, in this opening editorial, we argue the need to cast attention towards the new expressions of political participation generated by different citizen actors. Critically engaging with these varied expressions may reveal new ways of conceptualising participation that can create new informal spaces where injustices and inequalities are voiced and the structures and hegemonies created are exposed.

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超越后政治时代：探索计划中共识和冲突的关系和处境动力

本期专刊探讨了对后政治城市状况的批判性分析中出现的共识和冲突二元问题。关注共识与冲突之间存在的间隙空间，揭示了一种更多的关系动态，这种共识将共识与冲突定位为共同构成，并由国家和非国家行为者的政治行为不断塑造。对后政治的批评往往无法满足导致公民行为者以超出规划和决策的正式程序之外的政治方式行事的条件，或者当压迫性政治利用共识或冲突来产生排斥并重现不平等时。除了介绍本期特刊中出现的五篇论文外，在本期开幕社论中，我们认为有必要将注意力转移到不同公民行为者产生的政治参与的新表达上。批判性地参与这些变化的表达方式可能会揭示参与概念化的新方法，从而可以创建新的非正式空间，表达不公正和不平等，并暴露所创造的结构和霸权。