State/space : a reader / / edited by Neil Brenner [and three others]

• Pubblicazione: Malden, Massachusetts : , : Blackwell Publishers, , [2003]; ©2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (366 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.1
• Soggetto topico: Local government; Regionalism; State, The; Globalization
• Persona (resp. second.): BrennerNeil
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: State/Space: A Reader; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: State Space in Question; Part I Theoretical Foundations; 1 Exploration, Cartography and the Modernization of State Power; 2 The Autonomous Power of the State: Its Origins, Mechanisms and Results; 3 The Nation; 4 Space and the State; 5 The State as Container: Territoriality in the Modern World-System; Part II Remaking State Territorialities; 6 The State of Globalization: Towards a Theory of State Transformation; 7 The Rise of East Asia and the Withering Away of the Interstate System ; 8 The Struggle over European Order: Transnational Class Agency in the Making of "Embedded Neo-Liberalism"9 The Imagined Economy: Mapping Transformations in the Contemporary State; 10 Debordering the World of States: Toward a Multi-Level System in Europe and a Multi-Polity System in North America? Insights from Border Regions; 11 Rethinking Globalisation: Re-articulating the Spatial Scale and Temporal Horizons of Trans-Border Spaces; Part III Reshaping Political Spaces; 12 Remaking Scale: Competition and Cooperation in Pre-National and Post-National Europe ; 13 The National and the Regional: Their Autonomy Vis-à-vis the Capitalist World Crisis14 The Invention of Regions: Political Restructuring and Territorial Government in Western Europe; 15 Globalization Makes States: Perspectives on Local Governance in the Age of the World City; 16 Cities and Citizenship; 17 Citizenship, Territoriality and the Gendered Construction of Difference; 18 Shadows and Sovereigns; Subject Index; Name Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This groundbreaking, interdisciplinary volume brings together diverse analyses of state space in historical and contemporary capitalism.The first volume to present an accessible yet challenging overview of the changing geographies of state power under capitalism. A unique, interdisciplinary collection of contributions by major theorists and analysts of state spatial restructuring in the current era. Investigates some of the new political spaces that are emerging under contemporary conditions of 'globalization'. Explores state restructuring on multiple sp
• Titolo autorizzato: State
• ISBN: 1-281-32304-7; 9786611323042; 0-470-70520-5; 0-470-75568-7; 0-470-75471-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996218622103316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno