Changing geographies of the state: themes, challenges and futures

Moisio, Sami; Jonas, Andrew E. G.; Lizotte, Christopher; Luukkonen, Juho; Koch, Natalie

doi:10.4337/9781788978057.00009

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“…Arendt (1998, p. 63–64) refers to the concept of nomos (Greek for law or conventions governing human conduct) to identify a bounded legal space that is constitutive of political community: legislation creates a space in which it is valid for politics to take place, and this space does not have to be the state. However, while acknowledging the possibility of other forms of political community and other spaces for politics, the state has and still constitutes the de facto and de jure international condition under which political life proceeds (see Moisio et al, 2020).…”

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Urbanisation and the shifting conditions of the state as a territorial‐political community: A study of the geographies of political efficacy

Luukkonen

Wekcroth

Kemppainen

et al. 2021

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper contributes to recent debates on the geographies of discontent and the rise of populism as reflective of increasing territorial inequalities and a deepening divide between prosperous urban cores and declining peripheries (McCann, 2020;Rodríguez-Pose, 2018). While unequal economic geographies, as well as claims related to the loss of territorial sovereignty (Menon & Wager, 2020), are essential to understanding the current geographies of discontent, in this paper we suggest a complementary explanation for the alleged revenge of the "places that don't matter" (Rodríguez-Pose, 2018). We argue that geographies of discontent result from profound changes in the conditions of the state as territorialpolitical community and a space of political action driven by the emergence of the "urban" as a dominant spatio-political imaginary.

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Urbanisation and the shifting conditions of the state as a territorial‐political community: A study of the geographies of political efficacy

Luukkonen

Wekcroth

Kemppainen

et al. 2021

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“…The analysis is calculated for competitive advantages with an international perspective. The entrepreneurial rationale does not necessarily equate to putting capital interest to the fore, rather serves to achieve the geopolitical interests of the nation-state in the context of economic globalization (Li and Jonas, 2019; Li and Wu, 2020). Even though more attention is paid to environmental and social issues, it is addressed under the pressure of international economic negotiations.…”

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Governing cities through regions: Evolution of regional plans for the Yangtze River Delta mega city-region

Chen

Yuan

Sun

et al. 2023

Transactions in Planning and Urban Research

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The growth of regional plans in China since the new millennium has raised debates regarding the recentralization of the state in response to the crisis of urban entrepreneurialism. The Yangtze River Delta (YRD) region is a case in point for exploration. As the first regional plan of its kind, orchestrated over the YRD, two additional plans have been formulated for this region in the subsequent years. By analyzing the recurrent regional plan experiments in the YRD, this study identified two dominant features that characterized the current regional plan trend in China. The first is the special attention paid to the positioning of the regional territory in the national and international context. The second is the importance attached to the national policy delivery in multilevel government systems. This case study illustrates that the rise of regional plans made by the state does not indicate a departure from entrepreneurial governance. Instead, it represents a “nationalized” YRD entrepreneurial strategy, whereby the national aspirations are regionalized around the YRD. In addition, it manifests recurrent experiments for a governance fix by the state to regulate municipal developments via regional plans without fundamental structural reforms. Through regional plans, the state manages to govern the cities with strategic significance.

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“…As noted, traditional analyses of geopolitics and political decision‐making processes often locate agency primarily with ‘the state’. However, as critical scholars have demonstrated, ‘the state’ can more usefully be conceptualised as, first, an abstraction that only secondarily takes on material reality and effects in the world through the practices enacted in its name (Abrams, 1988; Mitchell, 1991; Moisio et al, 2020; Painter, 2006). These are insights that extend to, and that have important implications for, Arctic geopolitical analyses.…”

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A ‘peopled’ account of political agency in the Arctic: Professional practice and people‐to‐people participation

Medby

2022

Geographical Journal

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In spite of the region's diverse peoples and unique environments, Arctic political analyses frequently remain focused on the traditional level of the state and inter‐state relations. While states undoubtedly play a significant role in Arctic governance arrangements, this paper seeks to direct attention to the agency of the many people and actors performing politics in the region. A more ‘peopled’ analysis includes renewed attention to professionals – e.g., state personnel, politicians, and diplomats – as well as non‐state actors involved in Arctic politics through different avenues and with different levels of agency. This paper focuses on the so‐called Barents Cooperation, a peace‐building initiative set up in the wake of the Cold War between Nordic states and Russia in the Barents Euro‐Arctic border region. It draws on interviews with professionals involved in the daily running of the Barents Cooperation, including its funding of ‘grassroots’ and people‐to‐people activities, to ask what can lessons can be learnt about Arctic political participation beyond the state. Based on their reflections, key challenges, successes, and future opportunities are highlighted, and the paper argues for strengthening both the analytical attention to and the practical agency of a wider range of political actors.

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Changing geographies of the state: themes, challenges and futures

Cited by 13 publications

References 102 publications

Urbanisation and the shifting conditions of the state as a territorial‐political community: A study of the geographies of political efficacy

Urbanisation and the shifting conditions of the state as a territorial‐political community: A study of the geographies of political efficacy

Governing cities through regions: Evolution of regional plans for the Yangtze River Delta mega city-region

A ‘peopled’ account of political agency in the Arctic: Professional practice and people‐to‐people participation

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