Oxford Scholarship Online. This book is available as part of Oxford Scholarship Online - view abstracts and keywords at book and chapter level. 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.
Brenner traces 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 urban policy change, New State Spaces provides an innovative analysis of the new formations of state power that are currently emerging. Preface 1. Introduction: Cities, States, and the 'Explosion of Spaces' 2.
Date of Birth: Ph. Political Science, University of Chicago ; B. Philosophy, Yale, Summa Cum Laude Oxford and Boston: Blackwell, Has written numerous refereed journal articles, book chapters, book reviews, review essays; has co-guest edited two special issues of 'Antipode'; has translated work by Henri Lefbvre and Klaus Ronneberger.
It very nicely brings together and expands upon the now large volume of writing dealing with rescaling processes and state theory, and in doing so it both provides new forms of theoretical knowledge and adds to the current debate on urban governance. The book and its arguments around the rescaling of governmental spaces can only be strongly recommended.
Neil Brenner has written a book that is difficult to ignore for all with an interest not only in current debate on government restructuring, but also for all who follow the ongoing discussion on the construction of a new Europe - a Europe of New state spaces.
The book takes us to analytic zones we did not know existed. Great and original. Sovereignty in an Age of Globalization. New State Spaces makes clear why Neil Brenner deserves the praise and recognition that he has so far received. This is critically spatialized social science at its best: astutely comprehensive in its theoretical scope, pointedly insightful in its assessment of European planning practices, and richly empirical in its argument and analysis.
The scales of accomplishment are enormous. Radical geographers, city planners, and students of popular politics then began complaining about the neglect of space, and setting concrete studies of urban change in the context of abstractly framed geographic theories. Neil Brenner takes the whole discussion a stage farther, bringing together a knowledgeable critique and synthesis of previous thinking about 'state spaces,' important new ideas about regional policy under today's capitalism, and deeply documented comparisons of European regions.
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