“Global and world cities: a view from off the map”

Robinson, Jennifer

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“…Next, I further this spatio-political investigation of development governance with a deeper focus on urbanization and critical engagement with theories of neoliberal and post-colonial urbanism, gentrification, dispossession, informality and new state spaces. In line with critiques of theories of 'planetary urbanization', 'global cities' and the 'urban age' (Robinson, 2002;Roy, 2016;Sheppard et al, 2015), I argue that state-led land usurpation and the politics of welfare distribution in Southern cities requires attention to spatial governance politics that are under-addressed in dominant framings. Specifically, this includes state-led forms of informal and developmental land governance and the role of city dwellers' political participation in both formal and 'non-state' spaces.…”

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confidence: 79%

The Redevelopmental State: Governing Surplus Life and Land in the ‘Urban Age’

Doshi¹

2018

Development and Change

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This article theorizes changing configurations of development governance emerging as states attempt to reconcile two contradictory pressures of global urbanization: dispossessing capitalist accumulation and demands for inclusive welfare. It introduces the ‘redevelopmental state’ as a dynamic spatio‐political framework for understanding how hegemonic rule is tenuously forged amid potentially volatile urban land struggles. Whereas Northern urban redevelopment theories are less attentive to post‐colonial urbanization processes and most developmental state scholarship has not focused on cities, the redevelopmental state offers an alternative conceptualization. It centres on how emerging regimes of territorial rule, development and political participation contour access to land and social benefits in Southern cities. Forged at key conjunctures of social pressure, these redevelopmental state spaces work through and beyond formal policies and institutions, and articulate with nationalist cultural politics of belonging and aspiration that foster consent for redevelopment while also legitimating exclusions, violence and dispossession. A case study of Mumbai illustrates redevelopmental state spaces that suture ethno‐religious nationalism, urbanized accumulation and populist welfare to unevenly distribute life capacities, garnering both cooperation and contestation. The article concludes by suggesting ways this spatially attuned framing can provide insights into the recent rise of ethno‐nationalism and authoritarian populism around the world.

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confidence: 79%

The Redevelopmental State: Governing Surplus Life and Land in the ‘Urban Age’

Doshi¹

2018

Development and Change

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“…In a related critique, Jennifer Robinson (2002) shows that the field of urban studies has been divided between the "world/global city" literature, on the one hand, and development studies, on the other hand. While the world/global city literature has rightly explored the financial sectors of the new global economy, it has also considered these "stylish" sectors of urban growth as hegemonic categories of city ness.…”

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Centering Small Cities for Urban Sociology in the 21st Century

2020

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“…The preceding discussion indicates that it is important to frame this research in terms of small cities and their developmental dynamics. Much of the complexity and diversity of the global urban system exists outside of the top tiers of the urban hierarchy, making it necessary to incorporate small cities if we are to understand the full range of factors that account for urban development (Robinson, 2002). Accordingly, small cities are emerging as an important area of research, as they "…mediate between the rural and the urban, as well as between the local and global" (Bell & Jayne, 2006, p. 7).…”

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“…Given all of this, it is clear that more attention to small cities is needed, especially research that acknowledges the unique development trajectories connected to small city success stories (Amin & Graham, 1997;Meili & Shearmur, 2019;van Heur, 2010). On balance, a reasonable basis for proceeding is to acknowledge that when small cities do succeed, they often succeed differently from larger centers (Robinson, 2002(Robinson, , 2006 and that their success generates highly positive and meaningful impacts for their regions (Dijkstra et al, 2013). It is this conceptual framework that provides a rationale for the empirical study that follows.…”

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An infatuation with building things: Business strategies, linkages, and small city economic development in Manitoba

Rice

Kalafsky

2019

Growth and Change

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The establishment of a solid understanding of regional economic development has proved to be highly elusive. Research efforts within this area have focused largely on major urban areas, yet this somewhat narrow focus means that economic development activities in smaller urban centers have not received the attention that they deserve. This article investigates regional economic development within a small city context through a survey‐based study of the entrepreneurial ecosystems operating in two small cities in the province of Manitoba. The results indicate that many currently accepted bases of regional business community expansion, such as government support and development of local suppliers, have limited utility within these cities. Concurrently, business leader survey responses from the two cities reveal a unique set of factors that drive economic development success in this nonmetropolitan case study, keyed by the pivotal role of a unique mix of nonlocal linkages, local cultural resources, and social connections in catalyzing local business expansion. These findings indicate that business community growth in the study cities proceeds from a distinctive template relative to larger centers, and suggest that increased research attention is necessary to elucidate the bases of business success in a more diverse selection of successful small cities.

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“Global and world cities: a view from off the map”

Cited by 164 publications

References 21 publications

The Redevelopmental State: Governing Surplus Life and Land in the ‘Urban Age’

The Redevelopmental State: Governing Surplus Life and Land in the ‘Urban Age’

Centering Small Cities for Urban Sociology in the 21st Century

An infatuation with building things: Business strategies, linkages, and small city economic development in Manitoba

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