Begin Again, Return Again: The Transition Narratives and Political Continuities of Global Urbanization

Tedesco, Delacey

doi:10.1111/ips.12084

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“…More recently, scholars have argued that networks of global cities are creating new structures of governance and transforming the fabric of world politics itself (Acuto 2011; (Stephens, 2013); (Coward, 2012) Curtis 2016;(Closs Stephens, 2015;Coward, 2015;Danewid, 2020;Kangas, 2017;Magnusson, 2011;McGahern, 2016;Roy & Ong, 2011;Tedesco, 2015;Tedesco & Davies, 2022) ;). In his articulation of a sociology of transnationalism as an antidote to the discipline's fixation on inter-state politics, Didier Bigo pointed to the sociology of global cities as an example of an approach capable of 'deconstructing both the notions of society and globality as spaces of closure and homogenization .…”

Section: A Wonderful Global City? Resisting Urban Regeneration In Oly...mentioning

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A wonderful global city? Resisting urban regeneration in Olympic Rio

Davies,

Pontes Nogueira

2023

J Int Relat Dev

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This article engages with debates about the role of 'global cities' in international relations and in the governance of global capitalism. Much of the discourse on global cities reproduces the hierarchical stratifications of the international system that divide the 'global' from the 'local' along a North-South or centre-periphery axis. We argue that while Rio de Janeiro's 'Porto Maravilha' urban regeneration project apparently follows the global city model, its failure suggests the articulation of the international and the urban presents complexities that escape recent attempts to rethink world politics from the point of view of cities. In our analysis we consider how Rio's mayor took up the notion of 'Olympic City', articulating narratives of a global urban condition as part of the strategies of integration for an emerging power into world politics and the neoliberal reconfiguration of capitalism.We examine the overlapping events, trajectories and lived realities that interfered with and undermined the coherence of that project, as well as the practices of resistance that produced other representational spaces. We conclude that despite the dominance of global discourses and conceptions regarding urban regeneration, it misses much of the creative politics taking place in ordinary sites in which international and urban meet.

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confidence: 99%

A wonderful global city? Resisting urban regeneration in Olympic Rio

Davies,

Pontes Nogueira

2023

J Int Relat Dev

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“…The modernity/coloniality framework foregrounds the 'connected histories' 44 through which political spaces are constituted while highlighting the simultaneous creation of diverse boundaries, exclusions, and divisions. 45 In doing so, it provides tools to interrogate the historical constitution of urban space without buying into conventional 'transition narratives' 46 between the modern/postmodern or fordist/neoliberal city. Instead, it focuses on the complex entanglements of the modern and the colonial through which contemporary urban forms, and the international more broadly, are produced.…”

Section: Modern/colonial Urbanisationsmentioning

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Theorising International Urban Politics

Jerrems

2020

Millennium: Journal of International Studies

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Research across several disciplines has focused on the intersection between the international and the urban to shed light on transformations in global politics. Recently, this intersection has become the focus of critical International Relations scholars. Despite transversal interest, disciplinary boundaries often limit the scope of academic debate. In the interest of developing a transdisciplinary research agenda, this review article charts three different ways that scholars have theorised the relationship between the international, the urban, and the political across disciplines. A review of five recently published books, situated within a broader study of the literature, serves to do this.

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Begin Again, Return Again: The Transition Narratives and Political Continuities of Global Urbanization

Cited by 2 publications

References 8 publications

A wonderful global city? Resisting urban regeneration in Olympic Rio

A wonderful global city? Resisting urban regeneration in Olympic Rio

Theorising International Urban Politics

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