Making New Political Spaces: Mobilizing Spatial Imaginaries, Instrumentalizing Spatial Practices, and Strategically Using Spatial Tools

Boudreau, Julie‐Anne

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“…Cornwall (2002) uses the term "spaces" to point at the forms (institutionalized and non-institutionalized) in which organizations or individuals participate. Our use of the term comes rather close to Boudreau's (2007Boudreau's ( , p. 2594) use of the term. This author emphasizes the unique space of each actor while the concept of political space "presupposes that a space carries agentic power, but without assuming that this agency is 'naturally' derived from a well-bound territory" (ibid.).…”

Section: Pressures On Political Space Of Ngosmentioning

confidence: 80%

NGOs under Pressure in Partial Democracies

Borgh¹,

Terwindt²

2014

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Non-governmental public action (NGPA) by and for disadvantaged and marginalized people has become increasingly significant over the past two decades. This new book series is designed to make a fresh and original contribution to the understanding of NGPA. It presents the findings of innovative and policy-relevant research carried out by established and new scholars working in collaboration with researchers across the world. The series is international in scope and includes both theoretical and empirical work.The series marks a departure from previous studies in this area in at least two important respects. First, it goes beyond a singular focus on developmental NGOs or the voluntary sector to include a range of non-governmental public actors such as advocacy networks, campaigns and coalitions, trades unions, peace groups, rights-based groups, cooperatives and social movements. Second, the series is innovative in stimulating a new approach to international comparative research that promotes comparison of the so-called developing world with the so-called developed world, thereby querying the conceptual utility and relevance of categories such as North and South.

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Section: Pressures On Political Space Of Ngosmentioning

confidence: 80%

NGOs under Pressure in Partial Democracies

Borgh¹,

Terwindt²

2014

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“…(1) This paper follows Boudreau (2007Boudreau ( , page 2596 to define the spatial imaginaries as "mental maps representing a space to which people relate and with which they identify" (see also Larner, 1998).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contradictory Connectivity: Spatial Imaginaries and Technomediated Positionalities in Kenya's Outsourcing Sector

Graham

2015

Environ Plan A

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E ast A frica has trad itio n ally been characterized by sta rk b arriers to n o n p ro x im ate co m m u n icatio n a n d flows o f in fo rm atio n . It was the w o rld 's last m a jo r region w ith o u t fibre-optic b ro a d b a n d In tern et access, an d until the sum m er o f 2009 h ad been forced to rely on slow an d costly satellite connectivity. T his all changed when the first o f fo u r fibreo p tic cables was connected in K enya: bringing w ith it the prom ise o f fast an d affordable In tern et access fo r the m asses, an d the ability o f th e co u n try to m ove tow ards a know ledgebased econom y. W ithin the context o f this m o m en t o f change, th is p ap er explores the ways th a t m an ag ers o f outso u rcin g firm s envisage 'connectivity.' O ver the co u rse o f fo rty -o n e interview s, co n tra d icto ry spatial im aginaries were discovered. W hen describing th eir p erceptions o f the c o u n try 's new technom ediated positionalities, m any interview ees rep eated visions th a t allow ed geographic frictions to ev ap o rate. B ut w hen m an ag ers were asked a b o u t their actual m ediated positionalities, they presen ted a very different w orld: o ne o f b arriers, frictions, an d th e very real role th a t d istance con tin u es to play in the w o rld 's econom ic peripheries.T he goal o f this p ap e r is to in te rro g a te why we see such sta rk disconnects betw een perceptions an d practices o f connectivity. T h e co n trad ictio n s co uld be seen as an exposition o f a scalar schism betw een in te rn atio n a lly o p era tin g regim es o f tru th (ie, pow erful discourses th a t have their origin nonlocally) an d local experiences a n d practices in K enya. A lternatively, we can th in k a b o u t the co n tra d icto ry acco u n ts o f connectivity as em ergent from strategic spatial essentialism s th a t are practised to achieve p articu la r goals. By focusing on the co n tra d ictio n s em bed d ed in to the ways in w hich people speak a b o u t connectivity in the K enyan o u tso u rcin g sector, we can learn m uch a b o u t how arg u m en ts a b o u t the entanglem ent o f connectivity, grow th, an d developm ent are o perationalized. 'C onnectivity' is offered as a necessary, an d som etim es even sufficient, co n d itio n from w hich grow th an d econom ic developm ent can be b ro u g h t in to being: a set o f sp atial im aginaries th a t conveniently s u p p o rt a n atio n al developm ent strateg y o f rem aking K enya in the co n tem p o rary know ledge econom y.

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“…However, it is also clear that the 'soft spaces of governance' considered by Haughton and Allmendinger differ from a notion of 'new political spaces' where what is at stake is 'the transformation of the entire political process' (Boudreau, 2007(Boudreau, : 2596. For Boudreau, in examining the creation of Toronto as a competitive global city-region, the strategic production of the Toronto region as a political space 'depends on the mobilization of existing spatial imaginaries and the creation of new ones that resonate with residents and users of the city-region' (op cit.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They become, in other words, imaginaries. (Boudreau, 2007(Boudreau, : 2596(Boudreau, -2597 By way of contrast, a focus on 'soft spaces of governance' directs the focus less towards the construction of a political space open to political interaction and contest, and more towards the construction of new 'regulatory space' (Boudreau, 2007(Boudreau, : 2601 designed to deliver specific outcomes. Soft spaces, in this sense, are not oriented towards 'politics proper' allowing for a genuine politicisation of spatial strategy, but select for largely pre-given strategic objectives within a market-oriented framework for spatial development (Haughton et al, 2013: 222-223).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Delivering growth? Evaluating economic governance in England’s South East subregions

Valler

Phelps

2016

Town Planning Review

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The UK Coalition Government's commitment to 'localism' in Planning is in marked contrast to the emphasis on cross-boundary strategic planning initiatives under the previous Labour Government. Against this background the paper examines the implications of evolving economic governance arrangements in three sub-regional 'soft-spaces' in England's South-East region. A distinctive evaluative frame derives a set of criteria for 'good economic governance' as perceived by the stakeholders concerned, and a judgement regarding the 'quality' of economic governance in each case is presented. The conclusion triangulates these results against economic growth outcomes across the respective sub-regions.

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Making New Political Spaces: Mobilizing Spatial Imaginaries, Instrumentalizing Spatial Practices, and Strategically Using Spatial Tools

Abstract: Introductioǹ`For every plan there is a non-plan, for every net, there's a contra-net. The uncontrolled areas are essential places in life and need not to be known, but understood.'' Scene from Andrei Tarkovsky's movie Stalker (1979) (cited on the urban unlimited webpage,

Cited by 79 publications

References 39 publications

NGOs under Pressure in Partial Democracies

NGOs under Pressure in Partial Democracies

Contradictory Connectivity: Spatial Imaginaries and Technomediated Positionalities in Kenya's Outsourcing Sector

Delivering growth? Evaluating economic governance in England’s South East subregions

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