The relational co-production of “success” and “failure,” or the politics of anxiety of exporting urban “models” elsewhere

Bok, Rachel

doi:10.1080/02723638.2020.1802932

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“…The construction of overseas industrial parks should be strategically planned and monitored by the national state to avoid haphazard and disorderly construction. This reinforces the need for policy mobilities scholarship to pay attention to the structural contexts -specifically, state-level geopolitical relationships -of transnational policy mobilization (Bok, 2020). Both national state governments need to establish bilateral dialogue and communication mechanisms, strengthen financial and investment guarantees for prospective enterprises, as well as effectively regulate the competition by external enterprises.…”

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Variegated transnational partnerships: Multi-scalar actor networks in China’s overseas industrial parks

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The development of overseas industrial parks is a key component of the Belt and Road Initiative and a practical way of promoting inclusive globalization by introducing new forms of cooperation between China and the host countries. In this paper, the Thai-Chinese Rayong Industrial Zone (TCRIZ), and the China-Indonesia Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone (KITIC) are discussed in the context of the evolving development strategies and trajectories through three interrelated conceptual lenses — policy mobility, actor networks, and partnerships. The actor-network theory provides a lens to analyze how policy mobility and partnerships develop for two industrial zone case studies. The development, which involves a multi-scalar process, is shaped by the interactions among the national states, the regional governments and corporations against a background of globalization. Three types of transnational actor partnership networks have been identified, namely, hierarchical partnership, spontaneous partnership, and hybrid partnership. A highlight of the study is the role that the partnerships play in the process of policy mobility when it comes to the overseas industrial zones. It is argued that the partnerships are the key to achieving technology transfer on a cross-national basis, and the effectiveness of the technology transfer is dependent on partner selection and the roles of the actors in policy mobility.

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“…Miller and Nicholls also suggest that ‘social movements are extremely difficult to build and sustain in the absence of meaningful victories’ (2013, p. 455). Yet, a focus on counterhegemonic ideas and their engagement with the state also necessitates a nuanced engagement with failure (Bok, 2020; Chang, 2017; McCann & Ward, 2015; Stein et al, 2017; Temenos & Lauermann, 2020). Indeed, the question of failure is particularly important in the study of moving drug policy ideas.…”

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Mobilising a counterhegemonic idea: Empathy, evidence, and experience in the campaign for a Supervised Drug Injecting Facility (SIF) in Dublin, Ireland

McCann

Duffin²

2022

Trans Inst British Geog

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Using the case of the campaign to establish a Supervised Injecting Facility (SIF) for people who use illicit drugs in Dublin, Ireland, this paper makes three related contributions to contemporary literatures. First, by detailing the history of the campaign and paying particular attention to the ways it was influenced by learning from models elsewhere in the world, the paper adds a spatial perspective to research on the intersections of public health and politics. Second, the paper addresses the policy mobilities literature's minimal engagement with the role of counterhegemonic ideas and national states in shaping inter‐local policy circulations. It provides detailed empirical analysis of the influence of counterhegemonic ideas and how activists reference those ideas through appeals to empathy, expert evidence, and experience as they build coalitions to influence formal state institutions, including the legal system and the national government. This discussion supports a call for engagement between policy mobilities and counterhegemonic social movement literatures. Third, the paper addresses ongoing discussions of ‘failure’ in policy‐making by arguing for a critical, contextual approach to the spatialities and temporalities of attempts to change entrenched policy and regulatory models. The case study is based on one author's direct involvement in the campaign for a SIF and on semi‐structured research interviews with 12 key actors conducted since 2015. The research also involved an analysis of relevant documentary materials spanning the period 2012–2021 and both authors' participation in a drug policy forum in Dublin in January 2017, involving local and international actors.

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“…The asymmetric cartographies of expertise sketched above, as Bok (2020: 1236) puts it, ‘call attention to how the broader positionality of states can influence nationally-inflected relations of power’ in the global footprint of engineers and technocrats. However, the comparative framing of the different forms that technical expertise took in the two cities meant that Chennai’s highly localised and arguably ‘minor’ expertise on engineering could be juxtaposed with the expansionary ambitions of water expertise in London, interrogating what counts as engineering knowledge in making both urban and transnational infrastructures (Björkman and Harris, 2018).…”

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An experiment with the minor geographies of major cities: Infrastructural relations among the fragments

Niranjana

2022

Urban Studies

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Research on urban water infrastructures has seldom reached across the Global North-South divide owing to their apparent developmental incommensurability. Yet, the universalising tendencies of urban theory has meant that cities of the Global South are often deemed to have ‘fragmented’ infrastructures or incomplete circulations in implicit comparison to the northern infrastructural ideal. So, in order to truly ‘world’ the study of infrastructures and cities, it is important to go beyond these dominant paradigms and attend to how infrastructures actually work and what socio-technical implications they have in cities of the Global South and North. Building on these provocations, this paper places the water infrastructures of two ‘most different cities’– Chennai, India and London, UK – alongside each other in ‘experimental comparison’, where the aim is not to arrive at paradigmatic urban theory but to highlight heterogeneity and excavate themes for further critical thinking on each case. This paper will delineate the dialogic and reflexive method of research and analysis adopted, tracing how it led to the practice of ‘minor theory’, which focuses on processes that do not find expression in dominant universalising analyses. Here, minor theory is mobilised towards challenging dominant or major constructs about each city and across cities, while amplifying urban multiplicities and enabling a deeper engagement with infrastructure making in the Global South and North, thus expanding urban studies’ toolbox of critical thinking.

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The relational co-production of “success” and “failure,” or the politics of anxiety of exporting urban “models” elsewhere

Cited by 19 publications

References 50 publications

Variegated transnational partnerships: Multi-scalar actor networks in China’s overseas industrial parks

Variegated transnational partnerships: Multi-scalar actor networks in China’s overseas industrial parks

Mobilising a counterhegemonic idea: Empathy, evidence, and experience in the campaign for a Supervised Drug Injecting Facility (SIF) in Dublin, Ireland

An experiment with the minor geographies of major cities: Infrastructural relations among the fragments

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