Performing a neoliberal city-regional imaginary: the case of Tampere tramway project

IF 2.2 Q2 GEOGRAPHY

SPACE AND POLITY Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI:10.1080/13562576.2021.1885373

S. Davoudi, K. P. Kallio, J. Häkli

引用次数: 5

Abstract

ABSTRACT Sub-national statecraft and scalecraft is touted as consequential antidote to the crisis of uneven development and democratic deficit. Interrogating this supposition with reference to city-regionalization in Finland, this paper explores how a neoliberal imaginary of city-regions has been institutionalized through entanglement of discursive practices of contractual planning and materiality of tramway construction in Tampere. We argue that Finland’s ‘city regionalism’ is best understood in terms of rescaling of power from local municipalities to upper tiers of governance, lubricating of entrepreneurial development projects, and shrinking of democratic spaces of political contestations. We conclude by calling for geographically sensitive theorisations of city-regionalization.

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SPACE AND POLITY GEOGRAPHY-

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4.10

自引率

4.20%

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期刊介绍： Space & Polity is a fully refereed scholarly international journal devoted to the theoretical and empirical understanding of the changing relationships between the state, and regional and local forms of governance. The journal provides a forum aimed particularly at bringing together social scientists currently working in a variety of disciplines, including geography, political science, sociology, economics, anthropology and development studies and who have a common interest in the relationships between space, place and politics in less developed as well as the advanced economies.