Policy Mobility and Postcolonialism

The Geographical Production of Urban Policy Territories in Lusaka and Sacramento

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4836088
AutoresMatthew Lane (0000-0001-8404-506X, University of Edinburgh, autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Volume112
Fascículo5
Páginas1350-1368
Data de publicação2022-07-04
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAnnals of the American Association of Geographers (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2469-4452 • E-ISSN: 2469-4460
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/24694452.2021.1960791
OpenAlexW3209933255
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11
Referências citadas69

The geographical literature on urban policymaking has made a considerable contribution to enabling understandings of the relational processes involved in assembling local policies. Reviewing this literature’s journey from its origins in political science to its recent embrace of poststructuralism, this article argues that the debates and discussions involved have arrived at a point of core epistemological tension. Taking its own conceptual inspiration from thinking interurban space topologically, the article thus raises a number of questions regarding the assumptions associated with terms such as mobility and circulation, persistent in the languages of policy research and practice. Exploring these questions through a post-colonial ethnography of sustainable city visions in Lusaka, Zambia, and Sacramento, California, the article subsequently makes a series of contributions regarding the way policymaking regimes remain powerfully situated in space and time. To properly account for the workings of power and its ability to colonize policy practices, the article challenges us to therefore reflect on the value of transitioning away from thinking about policy ideas as capable of being mobile, circulated from place to place, and to instead unpack how particular territorial representations of place are (re)produced (including by geographers) within the confines of hegemonic ideas about city futures

Economics · Futures contract · Hegemony · Political science · Politics · Postcolonialism (international relations · Power (physics · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Temporalities · Vision · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Urban Planning and Governance · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies