Begin Again, Return Again
The Transition Narratives and Political Continuities of Global Urbanization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2264381 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Delacey Tedesco (0000-0001-7199-6536, University of Victoria, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 106-109 |
| Publication date | 2015-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Political Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-5679 • E-ISSN: 1749-5687 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ips.12084 |
| OpenAlex | W1964607902 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
Modern urbanization has been commonly understood as a localized transition of rural to urban populations within the space of a state. This transition narrative works in conjunction with other boundaries of modern progress, such as nature/culture, or savage/civilized. Contemporary analyses of the complex processes of global urban restructuring argue that these boundaries of modernity are increasingly irrelevant. Much of this work characterizes the emergent global urban condition as a political transformation that threatens to make irrelevant modern state sovereignty and the international system of states. Yet these claims of transformations in urbanization and in politics repeat the linear transition narratives of modern politics. An analysis of urbanization in my small Canadian city offers an example of how sovereignty is continually reinscribed through such transition narratives. Understanding this pattern of progress and return as the characteristic dynamic of aporetic boundary practices opens an innovative methodological approach to analyzing the continuities and discontinuities of contemporary politics
Economic growth · Economics · Modernity · Narrative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Restructuring · Sociology · Sovereignty · Urbanization · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Philosophy · Rural development and sustainability · Urban Planning and Governance
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| Citations per year | 0.33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |