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Juho Luukkonen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Metropolitanizing a Nordic State? City-Regionalist Imaginary and the Restructuring of the State as a Territorial Political Community in Finland
Foregrounding Urban Agendas, 2020Co-Authors: Heikki Sirviö, Juho LuukkonenAbstract:In this chapter, we study the effects of city-regionalism City-regionalism on state spatiality State spatiality and on state State as a territorial Political Community Territorial Political Community in the Finnish context. We conceptualize city-regionalism City-regionalism as an economic-geographical imaginary that has recently emerged as the dominant spatial framework informing national spatial policies and territorial strategies in the context of the capitalist world economy. The effects of city Cities -regional policies and strategies on national economies‚ on the states State ’ physical spaces Space ‚ or on the institutional arrangements of territorial governance Governance have been discussed widely in Political and academic circles. However, the potential implications of the imaginary of city-regionalism City-regionalism on the state State as a territorial Political Community Territorial Political Community have received less attention. In this chapter, we seek to fill this gap by scrutinizing city Cities -regionalist policies and discourse in the Finnish context through Hannah Arendt’s concepts of politics and Political Community Political Community . We start with the view that a state State , even if nationally scaled, is at least potentially a more inclusive and plural form of Political Community Political Community than any city Cities or metropolis. Based on our empirical analysis of the city Cities -regionalist discourse, we argue that city-regionalism City-regionalism is an exclusive and selective imaginary, which builds on a peculiar form of depoliticized politics fueled by particular forms of economic knowledge and rationales. Moreover, the imaginary privileges specific urban localities, issues, and actors as Politically appropriate topics of public deliberation Public deliberation and as relevant subjects of national Political concern. Accordingly, city Cities -regionalist imaginary not only contributes to the transformation of the state State ’s physical territorial structure but also considerably delimits the public space of politics Public space of politics , the notion of citizen-subject Citizen-subject —and eventually, the state State as a territorial Political Community Territorial Political Community .
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Metropolitanizing a Nordic State? City-Regionalist Imaginary and the Restructuring of the State as a Territorial Political Community in Finland
Foregrounding Urban Agendas, 2019Co-Authors: Heikki Sirviö, Juho LuukkonenAbstract:In this chapter, we study the effects of city-regionalism on state spatiality and on state as a territorial Political Community in the Finnish context. We conceptualize city-regionalism as an economic-geographical imaginary that has recently emerged as the dominant spatial framework informing national spatial policies and territorial strategies in the context of the capitalist world economy. The effects of city-regional policies and strategies on national economies‚ on the states’ physical spaces‚ or on the institutional arrangements of territorial governance have been discussed widely in Political and academic circles. However, the potential implications of the imaginary of city-regionalism on the state as a territorial Political Community have received less attention. In this chapter, we seek to fill this gap by scrutinizing city-regionalist policies and discourse in the Finnish context through Hannah Arendt’s concepts of politics and Political Community. We start with the view that a state, even if nationally scaled, is at least potentially a more inclusive and plural form of Political Community than any city or metropolis. Based on our empirical analysis of the city-regionalist discourse, we argue that city-regionalism is an exclusive and selective imaginary, which builds on a peculiar form of depoliticized politics fueled by particular forms of economic knowledge and rationales. Moreover, the imaginary privileges specific urban localities, issues, and actors as Politically appropriate topics of public deliberation and as relevant subjects of national Political concern. Accordingly, city-regionalist imaginary not only contributes to the transformation of the state’s physical territorial structure but also considerably delimits the public space of politics, the notion of citizen-subject—and eventually, the state as a territorial Political Community.
David Chandler - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The limits of post-territorial Political Community
Territories of Citizenship, 2012Co-Authors: David ChandlerAbstract:The attenuation or hollowing out of territorial politics has created a crisis of traditional frameworks of Political Community. Territorially defined and constructed Political communities are suffering from a generic lack of cohering values and sentiments, expressed in regular discussions of the meaning and relevance of different national values, symbols, and traditions. Governments have great difficulty in legitimating themselves in traditional ways. With the decline in party membership and voting, even holding elections every five years does little to legitimate governing elites or to cohere Political programmes for which they can be held to account. Traditional framings of foreign policy in terms of the national interest appear problematic and are often buttressed with claims of ethical or values-based foreign policy, which seek to secure the interests of people elsewhere rather than collectively expressing the interests of their citizens. In the face of this crisis in, and transformation of, traditional ways of understanding and participating in politics it is of little surprise that discussion of the possibilities of post-territorial Political Community has taken centre stage — that is, ways of Politically constructing communities that are not based on (or can overcome) the exclusions seen as integral to territorially constructed forms of Political association.
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The possibilities of post-territorial Political Community
Area, 2007Co-Authors: David ChandlerAbstract:This paper argues that the lack of purchase of tradi tional territorial constructions of Political Community does not necessarily indicate the emergence of new post-territorial forms of Political belonging. Rather, the claims made for new 'immanent' or 'emerging' forms of post-territorial Political Community reflect the highly individuated forms of Political activity which have accompanied the break-down of domestic social and Political links. This breakdown of territorial forms of belonging has facilitated the development of a variety of unmediated forms of expression of individual claims, tending to privilege the individual over any communal collectivity. This discussion paper concludes by suggesting what the possibilities of a reconstitution of Political Community might imply.
Heikki Sirviö - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Metropolitanizing a Nordic State? City-Regionalist Imaginary and the Restructuring of the State as a Territorial Political Community in Finland
Foregrounding Urban Agendas, 2020Co-Authors: Heikki Sirviö, Juho LuukkonenAbstract:In this chapter, we study the effects of city-regionalism City-regionalism on state spatiality State spatiality and on state State as a territorial Political Community Territorial Political Community in the Finnish context. We conceptualize city-regionalism City-regionalism as an economic-geographical imaginary that has recently emerged as the dominant spatial framework informing national spatial policies and territorial strategies in the context of the capitalist world economy. The effects of city Cities -regional policies and strategies on national economies‚ on the states State ’ physical spaces Space ‚ or on the institutional arrangements of territorial governance Governance have been discussed widely in Political and academic circles. However, the potential implications of the imaginary of city-regionalism City-regionalism on the state State as a territorial Political Community Territorial Political Community have received less attention. In this chapter, we seek to fill this gap by scrutinizing city Cities -regionalist policies and discourse in the Finnish context through Hannah Arendt’s concepts of politics and Political Community Political Community . We start with the view that a state State , even if nationally scaled, is at least potentially a more inclusive and plural form of Political Community Political Community than any city Cities or metropolis. Based on our empirical analysis of the city Cities -regionalist discourse, we argue that city-regionalism City-regionalism is an exclusive and selective imaginary, which builds on a peculiar form of depoliticized politics fueled by particular forms of economic knowledge and rationales. Moreover, the imaginary privileges specific urban localities, issues, and actors as Politically appropriate topics of public deliberation Public deliberation and as relevant subjects of national Political concern. Accordingly, city Cities -regionalist imaginary not only contributes to the transformation of the state State ’s physical territorial structure but also considerably delimits the public space of politics Public space of politics , the notion of citizen-subject Citizen-subject —and eventually, the state State as a territorial Political Community Territorial Political Community .
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Metropolitanizing a Nordic State? City-Regionalist Imaginary and the Restructuring of the State as a Territorial Political Community in Finland
Foregrounding Urban Agendas, 2019Co-Authors: Heikki Sirviö, Juho LuukkonenAbstract:In this chapter, we study the effects of city-regionalism on state spatiality and on state as a territorial Political Community in the Finnish context. We conceptualize city-regionalism as an economic-geographical imaginary that has recently emerged as the dominant spatial framework informing national spatial policies and territorial strategies in the context of the capitalist world economy. The effects of city-regional policies and strategies on national economies‚ on the states’ physical spaces‚ or on the institutional arrangements of territorial governance have been discussed widely in Political and academic circles. However, the potential implications of the imaginary of city-regionalism on the state as a territorial Political Community have received less attention. In this chapter, we seek to fill this gap by scrutinizing city-regionalist policies and discourse in the Finnish context through Hannah Arendt’s concepts of politics and Political Community. We start with the view that a state, even if nationally scaled, is at least potentially a more inclusive and plural form of Political Community than any city or metropolis. Based on our empirical analysis of the city-regionalist discourse, we argue that city-regionalism is an exclusive and selective imaginary, which builds on a peculiar form of depoliticized politics fueled by particular forms of economic knowledge and rationales. Moreover, the imaginary privileges specific urban localities, issues, and actors as Politically appropriate topics of public deliberation and as relevant subjects of national Political concern. Accordingly, city-regionalist imaginary not only contributes to the transformation of the state’s physical territorial structure but also considerably delimits the public space of politics, the notion of citizen-subject—and eventually, the state as a territorial Political Community.
M. Anne Brown - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Hybridity and dialogue – approaches to the hybrid turn
Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, 2017Co-Authors: M. Anne BrownAbstract:AbstractOne of the hybrid turn’s key contributions to debate in the fields of peacebuilding, state formation and international development is its approach to difference in post-colonial states. Observing difference and enmeshment is not new; it is in response to the standardising drive of statebuilding that it has critical significance. Rather than seeking to assimilate or eliminate difference, the hybrid turn enables approaching it as the field from which the Political Community of the state is crafted. This does not mean devising hybrid institutions, but supporting mutual recognition and dialogue as fundamental to Political Community in deeply heterogeneous states. Three different uses of hybridity are identified according to their capacity to enable forms of dialogue and mutual recognition.
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State Formation and Political Community in Timor-Leste – The Centrality of the Local
RCCS Annual Review, 2015Co-Authors: M. Anne BrownAbstract:This article addresses the enmeshments of customary and liberal institutional values and practices in Timor-Leste. It argues that dominant approaches to thinking about Political Community and the state overlook the significance of Community sources of Political values, placing them outside serious exchange and failing to provide a way of thinking seriously about negotiating Political life across radical difference. There is nevertheless an ‘ecology of relations’ taking shape described neither by liberal nor customary frameworks. The nature of Political Community in Timor-Leste will be shaped by how these enmeshments play out and whether they are negotiated through unacknowledged shadow zones or more accessible forms of exchange. Exchange around arenas of interaction could give substance to nation-building and build participation and accountability. Villages are critical in this context.
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Entangled worlds: villages and Political Community in Timor-Leste
2012Co-Authors: M. Anne BrownAbstract:This essay is about the interaction of different life-worlds, of different ways of understanding and constituting Political Community, and the challenges of working - and, for East Timorese, living - across these differences. As with many formerly colonised states, Timor-Leste is characterised by the coexistence of fundamentally different socio-Political cultures and logics of governance. Timor-Leste's social, cultural and linguistic heterogeneity is often noted. Here, however, I am referring to the more far-reaching divergence between what could be called the customary or 'local' life underpinning the various clan networks and Community structures across the country, and the forms of institutional governance and economic exchange underpinning the liberal state.
Jurgen Habermas - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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citizen and state equality in a supranational Political Community degressive proportionality and the pouvoir constituant mixte
Journal of Common Market Studies, 2017Co-Authors: Jurgen HabermasAbstract:In the European Parliament seats are distributed according to a principle of degressive proportionality that privileges smaller member states. While serving the principle of state equality, this arrangement seems to violate the principle of citizen equality. In this article, I consider whether a deviation from the equal representation of citizens can be justified in the context of a supranational Political Community. The main thesis is that the conflict between citizen and state equality can be dissolved if we understand the European Union as based on a pouvoir constituant mixte. Today, each European finds herself in a dual role as an EU citizen and a state citizen. While the member state peoples strive for supranational democracy, they have an interest in preserving their domestic structures of self-government. Thus, the rules of representation in the EP can be reconstructed as an expression of the legitimate will of a dual constituent subject.
