Relationality/territoriality: Toward a conceptualization of cities in the world

McCann, Edward; Ward, Kevin

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2009.06.006

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“…Rooted in work on policy transfer in political science, work on mobility in sociology, and geographical theorisations of space and scale (Temenos and McCann, 2013), it offers well-developed analytical and nuanced methodological approaches to explore the mechanisms and influence of policy knowledge in urban governance. Theoretically, this paper draws on policy mobilities' geographical conceptualisation of cities being at once territorially fixed and, in a mobile and globalising world, relationally constructed (McCann and Ward, 2010). This dialectic tension between fixity and flow is inherent in the phenomenon of policy learning, where policy knowledge is conceived in one territorial context, circulated relationally in time and space to be adopted in a different context (McCann, 2011).…”

Section: Policy Mobilities and Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Policy learning and sustainable urban transitions: Mobilising Berlin’s cycling renaissance

2016

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Cities are increasingly seeking to learn from experiences elsewhere when planning programmes of sustainable transition management, and the contingencies of policy-learning arrangements in this field are beginning to receive greater attention. This paper applies insights from the field of policy mobilities to the burgeoning field of transition management to critically explore a proposed ‘learning relationship’ between Berlin (Germany) and Manchester (UK) around cycling policy. Drawing on qualitative data, the paper casts doubt over the existing consensus attributing recent growth in bicycle use in Berlin to concerted governmental interventions. A multi-actor analysis suggests that contextual factors caused the growth in cycling and that policy has been largely reactive. The emergence and circulation of the Berlin cycling renaissance as a policy model is then traced through policy documents and interviews with actors in Manchester, UK, to understand why and how it has become a model for action elsewhere. It is concluded that Berlin’s cycling renaissance has been simplified and mobilised to demonstrate the requisite ambition and proficiency to secure competitive funds for sustainable urban transport. The paper develops an original study of the role policy knowledge and learning play in sustainable urban transition management, and argues that attending to the dynamics of policy learning can enhance our understanding of its successes and failures.

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Section: Policy Mobilities and Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Policy learning and sustainable urban transitions: Mobilising Berlin’s cycling renaissance

2016

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“…The way forward, then, is 'further examples of both relational thinking about territorial politics and of territorial thinking about relational processes' (JONAS, 2012, p. 270). This requires some empirical hard work, which is welcome, and there are good examples of how this might be conducted (BEAUMONT and NICHOLLS, 2007;GONZÁLEZ, 2009;JONES and MACLEOD, 2011;SAVAGE, 2009;MCCANN andWARD, 2010, 2011).…”

Section: Towards 'New Localities': the New Regionalism And Relationalmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This paper argues that 'locality' remains an important vehicle in and through which to conduct social science research and when re-energized through a multilayered theoretical framework locality can enlighten and energize regional studies. The authors would like to suggest that recent exchanges over the nature of socio-spatial relations in the social sciences (JESSOP et al, 2008;JONES, 2009;JONES and JESSOP, 2010;MERRIMAN et al, 2012), and the ongoing debate between territorial versus relational perspectives on this, notably in human geography (JONAS, 2012;MACKINNON, 2011;MCCANN andWARD, 2010, 2011;PAASI, 2010), but also related concerns in the social sciences, arts and humanities (BRENNER, 2004;HART, 2010;JONES, 2010;SASSEN, 2006;SMITH and GUARNIZO, 2009), would benefit significantly from returning to this missing spatial metaphor.…”

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confidence: 99%

New Localities

Jones¹,

Woods²

2012

Regional Studies

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JONES M. and WOODS M. New localities, Regional Studies. During the mid-to-late 1980s, 'locality' was the spatial metaphor to describe and explain the shifting world of regional studies. The paper argues that the resulting 'localities debate' threw this baby out with the bathwater and rather than invent new concepts to capture socio-spatial relations in the twenty-first century, the paper urges a 'return to locality' to enlighten regional studies. The paper offers three new readings of locality, which when taken together constitute the basis for thinking about regions, society and space through the lens of 'new localities'. It further suggests that for locality to have analytical value it must also have both an imagined and a material coherence, and it puts a 'new locality' framework to work in research on devolved regional economic and social geographies. New localitiesLocality Region Relationality Devolution WalesDe nouvelles localités, Regional Studies. Du milieu à la fin des années 1980, la notion de 'localité' constituait la métaphore pour décrire et expliquer l'évolution des études régionales. L'article affirme que 'le débat sur la notion de localité', qui en a résulté, a jeté ce bébé avec l'eau de bain et, plutôt que d'inventer de nouveaux concepts afin de capter les relations socio-géographiques du vingt-et-unième siècle, l'article prône en faveur d'un 'retour à la notion de localité' pour améliorer les études régionales. Cet article fournit trois nouvelles appréciations de la notion de 'localité' lesquelles, prises ensemble, constituent le bien-fondé des opinions sur les régions, la société et l'espace dans l'optique des 'nouvelles localités'. De plus, on propose que la notion de localité doit avoir une cohérence à la fois imaginaire et réelle pour justifier une valeur analytique, et on met en branle un cadre de 'nouvelle localité' dans la recherche au sujet des géographies économiques et sociales régionales dévolues. De mediados a finales de los ochenta, la 'localidad' era la metáfora espacial preferida para describir y explicar el mundo cambiante de los estudios regionales. En este artículo sostenemos que el 'debate de localidades' resultante acabó tirando el grano con la paja; en vez de inventar nuevos conceptos para captar las relaciones socioespaciales en el siglo XXI, aquí instamos a 'volver a la localidad' para esclarecer los estudios regionales. En este artículo ofrecemos tres nuevas lecturas de localidad que juntas constituyen la base para reflexionar sobre las regiones, la sociedad y el espacio a través del objetivo de las 'nuevas localidades'. Además sugerimos que para que el concepto de localidad ofrezca un valor analítico, también

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“…Her analysis is animated as much by the multiplicities, contestations and struggles of millennial development, as it is by the hegemonic centralities. In this sense Poverty Capital aligns with an expanding body of work in critical development and urban studies that emphasizes the contingency of actually existing neoliberalism (Ferguson 2010;Larner 2009;Leitner, Peck and Sheppard 2007;Li 2006;McCann and Ward 2010;Ward and England 2007;Wilson 2004;. Much of this scholarship engages poststructuralist epistemologies to probe neoliberal governmentalities as practices of assemblage-aiming to achieve coherent political rationalities, on the one hand, but also straining and fragmenting as enlisted actors, knowledges and norms come to serve other, coevolving strategies of rule on the other hand.…”

Section: Debtscapes Double Agents and Development: Reflections On Pomentioning

confidence: 94%

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2012

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Relationality/territoriality: Toward a conceptualization of cities in the world

Cited by 395 publications

References 37 publications

Policy learning and sustainable urban transitions: Mobilising Berlin’s cycling renaissance

Policy learning and sustainable urban transitions: Mobilising Berlin’s cycling renaissance

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