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New State Spaces : Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood, PDF eBook

New State Spaces : Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood PDF

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In this synthetic, interdisciplinary work, Neil Brenner develops a new interpretation of the transformation of statehood under contemporary globalizing capitalism.

Whereas most analysts of the emergent, post-Westphalian world order have focused on supranational and national institutional realignments, 'New State Spaces' shows that strategic subnational spaces, such as cities and city-regions, represent essential arenas in which states are being transformed.

Brennertraces the transformation of urban governance in western Europe during the last four decades and, on this basis, argues that inherited geographies of state power are being fundamentally rescaled.

Through a combination of theory construction, historical analysis and cross-national case studies of urbanpolicy change, 'New State Spaces' provides an innovative analysis of the new formations of state power that are currently emerging. This is a mature and sophisticated analysis by a major young scholar