New State Spaces

Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood

• Author(s): Neil Brenner,
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Pages: 351
• ISBN_10: 0199270058
  ISBN_13: 9780199270057
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / Development / Economic Development , Business & Economics / Economics / General , Political Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development , Political Science / History & Theory , Political Science / International Relations / General , Political Science / Public Affairs & Administration , Political Science / Constitutions , Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy , Political Science / Globalization , Political Science / World / General , Political Science / American Government / Local , Political Science / Geopolitics , Science / Earth Sciences / Geography , Social Science / Demography , Social Science / Human Geography , Social Science / Sociology / Urban , Social Science / Developing & Emerging Countries , Social Science / Regional Studies ,

Description:... 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 supranational and national institutional realignments, 'New State Spaces' shows that strategic subnational spaces, such as cities and city-regions, represent essential arenas in which states are being transformed. Brenner traces thetransformation of urban governance in western Europe during the last four decades and, on this basis, argues that inherited geographies of state power are being fundamentally rescaled. Through a combination of theory construction, historical analysis and cross-national case studies of urban policy change,'New State Spaces' provides an innovative analysis of the new formations of state power that are currently emerging.This is a mature and sophisticated analysis by a major young scholar