Over the last decade, urban philanthropic giving has acquired an increased significance for cities, shaping urban agendas and affecting local decision-making. Contributing to the emerging geographical literature on the impact of philanthropy on urban governance as well as to scholarship on post-foundational geographies, I argue that urban philanthropic giving is related to a post-political regime of multi-stakeholder urban governance. Contrary to being a linear process of managerial consensus politics, the post-politicisation of urban governance emerges as a multidimensional and variegated process of mutations and adaptations. Drawing from Athens, Greece, in the austerity period, I trace the emergence of a new donor-based philanthrocapitalist regime of urban governance and I demonstrate that post-political governance can take diverse forms: from the well-described in existing literature inclusive partnership-based approach to more authoritarian consensus-based governance processes. The aim of the paper is not just to answer if philanthrocapitalism gives rise to a post-political condition or not, but to explore how it is making and remaking (post-political) urban governance of public spaces, urban politics and urban everyday life. In doing so, the paper focuses on Athens Partnership, an intermediate governance organisation that was established to manage and support donations from the private sector to local governments in Athens and explores the ways urban philanthropy impacts on urban governance. Overall, the paper brings forward a renewed, more enmeshed understanding of post-political urban governance through an analysis of the novel philanthrocapitalist regime that emerged in European cities in the context of the recent intersecting crises.

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“采用你的城市”：后政治地理和紧缩时期城市慈善政治

在过去的十年中，城市慈善捐赠对城市的重要性日益凸显，它塑造了城市议程并影响了地方决策。我为新兴的关于慈善事业对城市治理影响的地理学文献以及后基础地理学的学术贡献做出了贡献，我认为城市慈善捐赠与多利益相关者城市治理的后政治体制有关。与管理共识政治的线性过程相反，城市治理的后政治化是一个多维度、多样化的突变和适应过程。我以紧缩时期的希腊雅典为背景，追溯了一种新的基于捐助者的慈善资本主义城市治理体制的出现，并证明了后政治治理可以采取多种形式：从现有文献中详细描述的包容性伙伴关系-更专制的基于共识的治理流程。本文的目的不仅仅是回答慈善资本主义是否会产生后政治状况，而是探讨它如何制定和重塑公共空间、城市政治和城市日常生活的（后政治）城市治理。为此，本文重点关注雅典伙伴关系，这是一个中间治理组织，其成立的目的是管理和支持私营部门向雅典地方政府的捐赠，并探讨城市慈善事业对城市治理的影响方式。总体而言，本文通过分析最近交叉危机背景下欧洲城市中出现的新型慈善资本主义政权，提出了对后政治城市治理的新的、更加深入的理解。