2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-5871.2012.00768.x
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Globalising Economic Governance, Political Projects, and Spatial Imaginaries: Insights from Four Australasian1 Cities

Abstract: This paper explores how territorial economic governance is discursively constituted in a globalising and neoliberalising world. It acknowledges both the increasingly recognised formative role of spatial imaginaries in economic interventions and the workings of co-constitutive political projects that link particular imaginaries with political ambitions and policy strategies. Embracing recent calls for comparative ethnographic urban research at the local-global interface, it explores currently dominant spatial i… Show more

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“…Ideas become naturalized through their circulation, acceptance, and embodiment. Images and written texts have been documented as spreading spatial imaginaries (Said 2003), as have verbal communication (Wetzstein 2013) and music ( Jaffe 2012). Spatial imaginaries are also argued to be embodied in material practicewhat people do as opposed to only think (Bialasiewicz et al 2007;Gregory 2004;Martin and Simon 2008;Puar 2006).…”
Section: The Characteristics Of Spatial Imaginariesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Ideas become naturalized through their circulation, acceptance, and embodiment. Images and written texts have been documented as spreading spatial imaginaries (Said 2003), as have verbal communication (Wetzstein 2013) and music ( Jaffe 2012). Spatial imaginaries are also argued to be embodied in material practicewhat people do as opposed to only think (Bialasiewicz et al 2007;Gregory 2004;Martin and Simon 2008;Puar 2006).…”
Section: The Characteristics Of Spatial Imaginariesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Their appeal rests in part on their imprecision and flexibility, allowing policymakers to construct particular readings of a problem and to propose appropriate solutions depending on their viewpoint. While this flexibility can engender disagreement or contestation between various actors owing to their different conceptual reference points (Jonas, ), the process of creating and refining spatial imaginaries can also bring different actors together, allowing them to negotiate complex and contested issues and in doing so helping to secure agreement on ways of moving forward (Wetzstein, ). For our purposes, it is important to emphasize that spatial imaginaries exist alongside a range of other possible imaginaries, including economic, political, social and ecological imaginaries (Sum and Jessop, ).…”
Section: Soft Space Imaginaries For Planning and Economic Developmentmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The link between institution building and the making and stabilizing of spatial imaginaries is a critical factor in the likely success and longevity of a new soft space imaginary (see Jessop and Oosterlynck, ; Jessop, ; Sum and Jessop, ; Wetzstein, ; Baker and Ruming, ). Particularly important is the shift from early unstable stages of support, building towards more stable ensembles of actors working towards a common agenda in an effort to draw in further resources and powers.…”
Section: Soft Space Imaginaries For Planning and Economic Developmentmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Robins and Dovers, ; Hirsch, ); social and economic policy (e.g. Taylor, ; Walmsley and Weinand, ; Stimson, ; Stimson et al ., ; Beer et al ., ; O'Neill and Fagan, ; Beer, ; Wetzstein, ), including social justice and equity (e.g. Randolph et al ., ; Fincher and Iveson, ), housing policy (from Johnstone, to Mee et al ., ), education (Maude, ), and health (see for example several articles in Geographical Research 23(2)); remote sensing/GIS and policy (see for example Allan and Peterson, ; Holloway and Bunker, ; Vleland et al ., ); and security (Connell, ) and crime (from Scott, to Hay, ).…”
Section: Relevance Is Still Relevantmentioning
confidence: 99%