Potenziale freisetzen: Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie und Assemblageforschung in der interdisziplinären kritischen Stadtforschung

Färber, Alexa

doi:10.36900/suburban.v2i1.109

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“…In step with these developments in urban geography is an increasing use of the concept of assemblage both as descriptive tool and as a foundation for theory creation in a Deleuzian and Guattarian sense (Latour, 1993;McFarlane, 2011;Sassen, 2006;Shamir, 2013). This development is widely debated in both Anglophone and continental urban geography, and reflects the tensions between current research trends on the micro-and meso-scales and the political economy approaches at the macro-scale (Brenner, Madden, & Wachsmuth, 2011;Färber, 2014;McFarlane, 2011;Robinson, 2011;Simone, 2011). As important and relevant as that discussion is, this paper will eschew the term and its ambiguities in favour of the concept presented below.…”

Section: From Built Environment To Infrastructurementioning

confidence: 95%

Connecting financialization and urbanization: the changing financial ecology of urban infrastructure in the UK

Grafe

Mieg

2019

Regional Studies, Regional Science

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This paper discusses a conceptual model for critically engaging with the effects of financialization on contemporary cities. The current state of theory on financialization in the urban context focuses foremost on the real estate sector activities, regulatory frameworks and governance structures that enable urban financialization. The paper addresses the calls for a closer examination of the spatial patterns that emerge from these practices. By combining financial ecologies as an analytical tool with infrastructure as a perspective, it provides a conceptual model in order to understand the impacts of financialization on cities. The paper discusses the conceptual model in the context of the introduction of the UK Municipal Bonds Agency. It concludes by outlining some of the spatial effects of the UK's changing financial ecology of urban infrastructure.

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Section: From Built Environment To Infrastructurementioning

confidence: 95%

Connecting financialization and urbanization: the changing financial ecology of urban infrastructure in the UK

Grafe

Mieg

2019

Regional Studies, Regional Science

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“…They also addressed the opportunity to create an alternate criticism of urban practices — beyond the structural fixations of grand social and urban theories (see Brenner et al ., ; McFarlane, ; Russell et al ., ). In particular, they emphasized the potential for urban transformation created by the flow and mutability of assemblages (Law, ; Farías, ; for similar arguments put forth in the context of European urbanistic debates, see Färber, ). However, this perspective has been criticized as overlooking important trends of social change, including those following economic restructuring or enduring strong power relations (Brenner et al ., ; Wachsmuth et al ., ; Belina, ).…”

Section: The Concept Of Assemblage: Imagining Urban Practicesmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…During April 2012, we empirically explored patterns of encounter between a changeable socio‐culture and an equally shifting materiality that contributed to the specificity of local assemblages in the inner city of Bucharest. Our methodological approach was based on inspirations we received from previous research into the formation of assemblages, in particular from the application of ethnographic methods (Brenner et al ., ; Rankin, ; Färber, : 99). We aimed to identify not only relevant socio‐material textures, but also their shifting contextualization, which provided specific directions in neighbourhood development.…”

Section: Analytical Setting and Empirical Basismentioning

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Assemblages of Urban Leisure Culture in Inner‐City Bucharest

Bürkner¹,

Totelecan²

2018

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Inner‐city redevelopment in the south‐eastern European metropolis of Bucharest has been an intriguing object of analysis. Having been neglected for a long time by its inhabitants, urban politics and the local economy, the historical inner city recently experienced tremendous development of its evening/night‐time economy and leisure culture, as though it had received fresh impulses from European integration. However, there is no single cause which effected this unexpected proliferation. Therefore, this article traces the contingent ways in which the inner city has been affected, mainly through an empirical reconstruction of socio‐material assemblages of inner‐city leisure culture. A typology of (partial) assemblages is developed, which illustrates the heterogeneity, contingency and changeability of emerging temporary relations between various social, material and ideational elements. We demonstrate how localism and internal replication of limited business concepts have triggered the selective adaptation of various symbols of modernization. Against this background we argue that post‐transformational urbanity involves contingent social self‐referencing and socio‐material assemblage, rather than the adoption of prevailing translocal models of urban development. A critical reassessment of assemblage theory, as applied to this particular urban context, leads to final considerations concerning possible theoretical readjustments.

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“…Nach Brenner, Madden und Wachsmuth (2011) blendeten Assemblage-Ansätze die widersprüchlichen und hierarchischen sozialen Beziehungen und institutionellen Formen des Kapitalismus aus und verhinderten dadurch Kritik an tatsächlich bestehenden sozialen Beziehungen und institutionellen Arrangements. Eine ähnliche Diskussion hat der die ANT weitgehend verteidigende Beitrag von Alexa Färber (2014) in der deutschen Stadtforschung ausgelöst.…”

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Die Stadt als Assemblage: Neue Perspektiven für die Stadtplanung durch die Actor-Network- Theorie?

Eckardt¹

2021

ZfPP

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Zusammenfassung: Städte zeichnen sich durch das Zusammenspiel von gebauter und sozialer Welt aus. In der Stadtforschung wird durch die Rezeption der Actor-Network- Theorie (ANT) seit einigen Jahren versucht, diese Erkenntnis zur Erweiterung der Handlungsperspektiven für die Stadtplanung zu nutzen. Dabei soll mit dem Rückgriff auf den Begriff der Assemblage der offensichtliche Gegensatz zwischen Materialität und Gesellschaft überwunden werden. In diesem Beitrag soll anhand von vier internationalen Studien aus der angewandten Stadtplanungsliteratur diskutiert werden, inwieweit sich durch die Urban-Assemblage-Forschung neue Perspektiven für die Stadtplanung gewinnen lassen. Anhand von vier thematischen Handlungsfeldern (Citizenship, Rekonfiguration des Gebauten, Materialität und Gemeinschaft, Soziale Bewegungen und Stadtplanung) soll aufgezeigt werden, in welcher Weise ANT rezipiert wird und ob sich tatsächlich neue Perspektiven für die Stadtplanung ergeben können. Im Ergebnis wird aufgezeigt, dass es in der Tat durch eine veränderte Sicht auf Stadtplanung, die Beziehungen zwischen der sozialen und nichtmenschlichen Stadt integriert, in diesen Studien gelingt, neue Optionen für eine demokratisierende Stadtpolitik anzudeuten. Allerdings wird zugleich deutlich, dass diese empirischen Studien auch auf Defizite des Urban-Assemblage-Ansatzes hinweisen und insbesondere die Berücksichtigung der politischen und materiellen Dimension des Städtischen noch weiter verbessert werden muss.

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Potenziale freisetzen: Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie und Assemblageforschung in der interdisziplinären kritischen Stadtforschung

Cited by 34 publications

References 2 publications

Connecting financialization and urbanization: the changing financial ecology of urban infrastructure in the UK

Connecting financialization and urbanization: the changing financial ecology of urban infrastructure in the UK

Assemblages of Urban Leisure Culture in Inner‐City Bucharest

Die Stadt als Assemblage: Neue Perspektiven für die Stadtplanung durch die Actor-Network- Theorie?

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