Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism

‘The Production of Space’, in: Frans Jacobi, Imagine, Space Poetry, Copenhagen, 1996, unpaginated.

The Production of Space

萨义德以其独特的双重身份,对西方中心权力话语做了分析,通过对文学作品、演讲演说等文本的解读,将O rie n ta lis m——"东方学",做了三重释义:一门学科、一种思维方式和一种权力话语系统,对东方学权力话语做了系统的批判,同时将东方学放入空间维度对东方学文本做了细致的解读。

萨义德的“Orientalism”释义

We investigate whether income inequality affects subsequent growth in a cross-country sample for 1965-90, using the models of Barro (1997), Bleaney and Nishiyama (2002) and Sachs and Warner (1997), with negative results. We then investigate the evolution of income inequality over the same period and its correlation with growth. The dominating feature is inequality convergence across countries. This convergence has been significantly faster amongst developed countries. Growth does not appear to influence the evolution of inequality over time. Outline

https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/81822/1/02-28.pdf

Economic growth and income inequality

Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge. Edited by I. Lakatos and A. Musgrave. Pp. viii, 282. £3·50, paperback £1. 1970. (Cambridge University Press.)

Discussions of the spatiality of globalization have largely focused on place-based attributes that fix globalization locally, on globalization as the construction of scale, and on networks as a distinctive feature of contemporary globalization. By contrast, position within the global economy is frequently regarded as anachronistic in a shrinking, networked world. A critical review of how place, scale, and networks are used as metaphors for the spatiality of globalization suggests that space/time still matters. Positionality (position in relational space/time within the global economy) is conceptualized as both shaping and shaped by the trajectories of globalization and as influencing the conditions of possibility of places in a globalizing world. The wormhole is invoked as a way of describing the concrete geographies of positionality and their non-Euclidean relationship to the Earth’s surface. The inclusion of positionality challenges the simplicity of pro- and antiglobalization narratives and can...

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The Spaces and Times of Globalization: Place, Scale, Networks, and Positionality*

The question of how space matters to the mobilisation, practices and trajectories of contentious politics has frequently been represented as a politics of scale. Others have focused on place and networks as key spatialities of contentious politics. Yet there are multiple spatialities – scale, place, networks, positionality and mobility – that are implicated in and shape contentious politics. No one of these should be privileged: in practice, participants in contentious politics frequently draw on several at once. It is thus important to consider all of them and the complex ways in which they are co-implicated with one another, with unexpected consequences for contentious politics. This co-implication in practice, and its impact on social movements, is illustrated with the Immigrant Workers’ Freedom Ride in the United States.

The spatialities of contentious politics

1. Contesting Urban Futures: Decentering Neoliberalism. 2. Conceptualizing Neoliberalism, Thinking Thatcherism. 3. Mexico's Neoliberal Transition: Authoritarian Shadows in an Era of Neoliberalism. 4. The Places, People, and Politics of Partnership: After Neoliberalism in Aotearoa New Zealand. 5. Contesting the Neoliberalization of Urban Governance. 6. Contesting the Neoliberal City?: Theories of Neoliberalism and Urban Strategies of Contention. 7. Political Polemics and Local Practices of Community Organizing and Neoliberal Politics in South Africa. 8. Decommodifying Electricity in Postapartheid Johannesburg. 9. Spaces of Resistance in Seattle and Cancun. 10. Articulating Neoliberalism: Diverse Economies and Everyday Life in Postsocialist Cities. 11. Modes of Governance, Modes of Resistance: Contesting Neoliberalism in Calgary. 12. Closed Borders, Open Markets: Immigrant Day Laborers' Struggle for Economic. Rights 13. Space Patrols - The New Peace-Keeping Functions of Nonprofits: Contesting Neoliberalism or the Urban Poor? 14. From Possible Urban Worlds to the Contested Metropolis: Urban Research and Activism in the Age of Neoliberalism. 15. Squaring up to Neoliberalism.

Contesting neoliberalism : urban frontiers

Recognition that GIS is a social technology implies that the GIS research agenda should be broadened to incorporate questions of the social imbeddedness and impact of GIS. Research into these questions can draw on the complementary skills of GIS specialists and social theorists. GIS as we know it is not the only form it could have taken, but has followed a direction of development shaped by technical and social conditions. GIS represents the world in certain ways that privilege instrumental logic over other ways of knowing. GIS can have significant consequences affecting the outcome of social problems which it is employed to solve, depending on differential access to GIS and information, and on what is defined as information. Such issues suggest a rich agenda for future research.

GIS and Society: Towards a Research Agenda

“To thematize requires a project to select its objects, deploy them in a bounded field, and submit them to disciplined inquiry” (Guha, 1997, xv) Mainstream urban scholarship envisions urbanization as a global process that is best achieved via the worldwide application of the development mechanisms pioneered in the advanced capitalist countries—currently, those of neoliberal globalization. Yet the repeated failure of this vision to deliver on its promise of wealth for all and ecological sustainability compels urban scholars to rethink mainstream presumptions. By means of a ten-point manifesto, we argue that provincializing global urbanism creates space from which to challenge urban theories that treat “northern” urbanization as the norm, to incorporate the expertise and perspectives of urban majorities, and to imagine and enact alternative urban futures.

Eric Sheppard

Papers

The Spaces and Times of Globalization: Place, Scale, Networks, and Positionality*

The spatialities of contentious politics

Contesting neoliberalism : urban frontiers

GIS and Society: Towards a Research Agenda

Urban Pulse-provincializing Global Urbanism: A Manifesto