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The City as a Global Political Actor - Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City 1st edition
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The City as a Global Political Actor - Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
This book engages with the thorny question of global urban political agency. It critically assesses the now popular statement that in the context of paralysed and failing nation state governments, cities can and will provide leadership in addressing global challenges.
Cities can act politically on the global scale, but the analysis of global urban political agency needs to be firmly embedded in the field of urban studies. Collectively, the chapters in this volume contextualize urban agency in time and space and pluralize it by looking at how urban agency is nurtured through coalitions between a wide range of public and private actors. The authors develop and critically assess the conceptual underpinnings of the notion of global urban political agency from a variety of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives. The second part contains several (theoretically informed) empirical analyses of global urban political agency in cities around the globe.
This book geographically expands analysis by looking beyond global cities in diverse contexts. It is highly recommended reading for scholars in the fields of international relations and urban studies who are looking for an interdisciplinary and empirically grounded understanding of global urban political agency, in a diversity of contexts and a plurality of forms.
280 pages, 4 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white; 1 Tables, black and white
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 5, 2018 |
| ISBN13 | 9781138573574 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 282 |
| Dimensions | 241 × 163 × 24 mm · 612 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Bassens, David (Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium) |
| Editor | Beeckmans, Luce (Ghent University, Belgium) |
| Editor | Braeckmans, Luc (University of Antwerp, Belgium) |
| Editor | Derudder, Ben (Ghent University, Belgium) |
| Editor | Oosterlynck, Stijn (University of Antwerp, Belgium) |
| Editor | Segaert, Barbara (University of Antwerp, Belgium) |
