Geographies of Urban Politics: Pathways, Intersections, Interventions

McGuirk, Pauline M

doi:10.1111/j.1745-5871.2011.00726.x

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“…Initial use of the term was motivated by the need for exploring how the political and economic shifts associated with globalization gave rise to specific development patterns and practices of contestation at the urban scale (Amin, 1994). More recent work on the topic has drawn upon regulation theory approaches to emphasize the institutional and political reconfigurations that have underpinned the emergence of entrepreneurial urbanism and the move from 'government to governance' (Mcguirk, 2012). At the same time, assemblage thinking has allowed for socio-spatial formations to be considered as heterogeneous and emergent networks involving the interaction of human and non-human entities via a range of distributed agencies (Anderson & McFarlane, 2011;Dittmer, 2013).…”

Section: Energy Transitionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Energy Poverty

Bouzarovski

2018

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Section: Energy Transitionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Energy Poverty

Bouzarovski

2018

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“…The emergence of more diffuse and fragmented forms of regional governance, so the argument goes, is best analysed as a ‘regional assemblage' of public and private political actors whose power is ‘lodged' within the region, and whose spatial reach is not tied to conventional notions of territory (Allen and Cochrane, : 1073). New spaces for agency and political action thus emerge, since ‘urban political formations … are understood not as the structural effect of broader forces but as fluid and performative arrangements and achievements' (McGuirk, : 262).…”

Section: Spatializing the Politics Of Suburbanizing Regionsmentioning

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‘It's Not Going to be Suburban, It's Going to be All Urban’: Assembling Post‐suburbia in the Toronto and Chicago Regions

Keil

Addie

2015

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Urban and suburban politics are increasingly intertwined in regions that aspire to be global. Powerful actors in the Chicago and Toronto regions have mobilized regional space to brand rescaled images of the urban experience, but questions remain as to who constructs and who can access the benefits of these revised spatial identities. Local political interests have tended to be obfuscated in the regional milieu, most problematically in the spaces between the gentrified inner cities, privileged growth nodes, and the glamorized suburban subdivisions and exurban spaces beyond the city limits. This article analyses how socio‐spatial changes in post‐suburbanizing urban fringes contribute to the way regions are being reconfigured and reimagined. Guided by current debates at the intersection of assemblage theory and critical urban political economy, our analysis demonstrates how socio‐technical infrastructures, policy mobilities and political economic relations are spatially aligned, sustained and dissolved in splintering North American agglomerations. Particular attention is paid to issues of urban transportation and connectivity in uncovering multifaceted modes of suburbanism that now underlie the monistic imagery of the globalized region. Emergent regionalized topologies and territoriality blur conventional understandings of city–suburban dichotomies in extended urban areas that are now characterized by polycentric post‐suburban constellations. In terms of their substance and functionality, ‘real existing' regions are currently re‐territorialized as complex assemblages that are embedded in a neoliberalizing political economy whose politics and identities are only beginning to be revealed.

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“…Importantly, and in contrast to hierarchical notions of governance, power is construed as shifting and contested outcome of ongoing and contingent material‐discursive alignments and strategic coupling processes. In regards to UEG questions, PSPE highlights the centrality of a perspective of situated practice to an understanding of urban politics as relational compositions, or assemblages (McGuirk ), while it engages with the contingencies, contradictions and constraints of urban policy‐making in territorial contexts (Wetzstein ). This body of literature asks how UEG is constituted and reconstituted by time‐ and place‐specific assemblages of material and discursive governing resources such as narratives, benchmarks, indicators, political power, funding commitments and access to networks.…”

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Urban Economic Governance, Business and Globalisation: Australasia's ‘Committee‐for‐[City]’ Phenomenon

Wetzstein

2013

Geography Compass

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This article explores the nexus between urban economic governance, business and globalisation in light of new empirical research about the emergence of ‘Committee‐for‐[City]’ entities in Australasia. It critically reviews key claims of the international literature on business‐mediated urban economic governance from both structural and post‐structural urban political economy, business mobilisation and globalisation perspectives in order to test these largely northern hemisphere‐centric theories against new research findings on business as emergent political and policy actor in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland. On the basis of a conceptualisation that contemporary ‘at‐a‐distance’ urban economic interventions are essentially discursive public–private partnerships, the paper highlights the important role of business interests in the context of a co‐opting and partnering state. Although it is found that established notions such as ‘urban growth machines’ and ‘entrepreneurial governance’ are (still) relevant to explain the nature and work of these new business governance actors in Australasia, the influence of globalising processes and the constitutive nature of the institutional and socio‐economic context must be more thoroughly acknowledged. The hybrid nature of the governing objectives pursued and the multiplicity of political projects at work mean that governance and investment outcomes resulting from business‐mediated urban economic interventions cannot be assumed but must be traced and evaluated in careful empirical investigations.

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Geographies of Urban Politics: Pathways, Intersections, Interventions

Cited by 34 publications

References 79 publications

Energy Poverty

Energy Poverty

‘It's Not Going to be Suburban, It's Going to be All Urban’: Assembling Post‐suburbia in the Toronto and Chicago Regions

Urban Economic Governance, Business and Globalisation: Australasia's ‘Committee‐for‐[City]’ Phenomenon

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