New State Spaces

Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-927006-4
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 565 g

Simultaneously analysing the restructuring of urban governance and the transformation of national states under globalising capitalism, 'New State Spaces' is a mature analysis of broad interdisciplinary interest.

In this synthetic, interdisciplinary work, Neil Brenner develops a new interpretation of the transformation of statehood under contemporary globalizing capitalism. Whereas most analysts of the emergent, post-Westphalian world order have focused on suprana

Preface; 1. Introduction: Cities, States, and the 'Explosion of Spaces'; 2. The Globalization Debates: Opening up to New Spaces?; 3. The State Spatial Process under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis; 4. Urban Governance and the Nationalization of State Space: Political Geographies of Spatial Keynesianism; 5. Interlocality Competition as a State Project: Urban Locational Policy and the Rescaling of State Space; 6. Alternative Rescaling Strategies and the Future of New State Spaces; Bibliography; Index

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brenner, Neil

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Staats- und Regierungsformen, Staatslehre

Über Autor(innen)

Date of Birth: 1969

Ph.D, Political Science, University of Chicago (1999); M. A. Geography, University of California Los Angeles (1995); M. A. Political Science, University of Chicago (1994); B. A. Philosophy, Yale, Summa Cum Laude (1991).

Co-editor with Bob Jessop, Martin Jones, and Gordon MacLeod: State/Space: A Reader (Oxford and Boston: Blackwell, 2003).

Co-editor with Nik Theodore: Spaces of Neoliberalism: Urban Restructuring in Western Europe and North America. (Oxford and Boston: Blackwell, 2002).

Has written numerous refereed journal articles, book chapters, book reviews, review essays; has co-guest edited two special issues of 'Antipode'; has translated work by Henri Lefbvre and Klaus Ronneberger.

Forthcoming:

Co-edited with Roger Keil: The Global Cities Reader (New York and London: Routledge, 2005)

Proposal under consideration by Temple University Press:

With Bob Jessop, Martin Jones, and Gordon MacLeod: The New Political Economy of Scale