The City as World-Place
Transterritorial Flows and Territorial Order in a Nuremberg Neighbourhood
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5082089 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christian Berndt (0000-0001-5055-0180, Institut für Humangeographie, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Robert-Mayer-Strasse 6-8, 60325 Frankfurt/Main, Germany), Marc Boeckler (0000-0002-8156-0776, Lehrstuhl für Kulturgeographie, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Ostenstrasse 18, 85072 Eichstätt, Germany, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 1545-1563 |
| Publication date | 2007-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/a38484 |
| OpenAlex | W1978950167 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 8 |
Approaching struggles for political representation through a perspective of 'methodological transterritorialism', we seek to make sense of recent developments evolving around a territorialised urban neighbourhood. Werderau, a garden suburb founded by a mechanical engineering company at the beginning of the 20th century, enjoyed relative protection from globalising frictions and struggles until the 'world-in-motion' suddenly penetrated the community a few years ago. We begin by charting the production of the bounded settlement as a site of alternate social ordering at a time of hyper-industrialisation and its imaginary role as a territorial heterotopia, symbolising order in a seemingly chaotic urban world. Turning to the owner's decision to sell the neighbourhood in 1998, we then argue that long-term inhabitants discursively frame the events following the decision as 'transterritorial pollution' of their bounded community, reflected in the commodification of their neighbourhood and in an 'invasion' of non-German home-owners. After discussing how longer term residents attempt to restabilise their identities by taking up a xenophobic discourse, we conclude by criticising policymakers for responding solely in a territorial logic and for one-sidedly taking up the discourse advanced by long-term residents. Instead, we advance a utopian vision of the city as a worldly site where people live under conditions of 'transcultural Gleich-Gültigkeit' in the double meaning of the German term: understood as being 'indifferent' towards the proximate other as well as referring to equality and equal rights
Commodification · Economics · Economy · Geography · German · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · The Imaginary · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration · Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2014 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |