The City as a Global Political Actor (Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City)

By: Stijn Oosterlynck Luce Beeckmans and David Bassens and Ben Derudder and Barbara Segaert and Luc Braeckmans

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781351330732
Related ISBNs:: 9780203701508, 9781138573574, 9781138573574
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 03/23/20
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Stijn Oosterlynck, Luce Beeckmans, David Bassens, Ben Derudder, Barbara Segaert and Luc Braeckmans
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Social Studies, Earth Sciences
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Stijn Oosterlynck
Edited by:: Luce Beeckmans
Edited by:: David Bassens
Edited by:: Ben Derudder
Edited by:: Barbara Segaert
Edited by:: Luc Braeckmans