Power in Place: Retheorizing the Local and the Global

Smith, Michael Peter

doi:10.1002/9780470693582.ch6

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“…This is not to 'black box' the city, making it appear as if unequal development and associated power relations are not internally relevant, or as if co-benefits accrue equitably at the municipal level by virtue of a smaller scale. This scale romanticism has been refuted by a number of scholars who caution us against the assumption that smaller scale ensures equitable social relations (Smith, 2001;Imboela, 2004). Indeed, some have undertaken critical studies of the social project sometimes associated with greening the city (Pellow, 2004;Keil & Boudreau, 2006).…”

Section: Cities Climate and Global Environmental Politicsmentioning

confidence: 95%

Transnational Municipal Networks in Climate Politics: From Global Governance to Global Politics

Toly

2008

Globalizations

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Section: Cities Climate and Global Environmental Politicsmentioning

confidence: 95%

Transnational Municipal Networks in Climate Politics: From Global Governance to Global Politics

Toly

2008

Globalizations

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“…The city is key site here. Marcus and Fischer (1986) at an early stage provided urbanists with a framework for exploring how subjectivities are formed in the context of local daily life, with its rapidly changing sociospatial boundaries, in and against the more macro and global processes of urban restructuring, transnational formation and the heightened environment of racial and ethnic conflict in transnational cities everywhere (Smith, 2002). The city is the place where unpredictable encounter with the other is most possible.…”

Section: The Shift To Differencementioning

confidence: 99%

Lest Power be Forgotten: Networks, Division and Difference in the City

Bridge

Watson

2002

The Sociological Review

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Over the last decade we have seen a notable shift in the urban sociology literature from discourses of division to discourses of difference. This shift has opened up new ways of understanding the complexities of city life and the formation of heterogeneous subjectivities and identities in the spaces of the city. There has been, we argue, a worrying tendency in this process to lose an analysis of the workings of power. While early Marxist, feminist and race/ethnicity debates were firmly located within a framework which highlighted power, post-structuralist debates have operated with a more fluid notion of power, which at times has become so fluid as to evaporate into thin air. Our intention here is to re-emphasise the significance of power while holding on to the concept of difference. We do this by using the notion of power networks that operate at different temporal and spatial scales. These give the city contrasting spatialities and temporalities that overlap one another. The city is seen as a palimpsest of time-space networks that capture some of the ‘presence of difference’ as well as suggesting its absences. These time-space networks of power are considered in the material, perceived and imaginary realms in relation to bodies, interests and symbols.

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“…I have also used some images and extracts from the publically accessible parts of the school website -all of which I have cited under the pseudonym, 'ISSG website' in the text and in the bibliography. 9 See also Smith, 2005.…”

Section: A Note On Confidentiality and Anonymitymentioning

confidence: 99%