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CALL FOR PAPERS
‘Policy and Politics Conference:
'The Challenges of Leadership and Collaboration in the 21st Century’, Bristol, 16-17 Sep 2014
Papers are invited on the topic of:
‘THE INTERNATIONALISATION OF CITIES: LEADERSHIP, COOPERATION AND THE POLITICAL CHALLENGES OF POLICY NETWORKS'
The proposed session/s is/are about ways in which cities – including global cities, mega-regions, city-regions, yet also other, less prominent urban entities – contribute in their own right to the development of governance responses to globalization and the mantra of competitiveness. This is happening through forms of inter-city and transnational networks, i.e. the setting up of opportunity-driven links, based on shared interests and agendas, however temporary, and the forging of alliances across spatial scales to pursue specific political and economic objectives. National governments may be involved, or by-passed, surrounding regions included or left behind, as cities pursue their own development ambitions as a political-economic agenda
The recent growth of such efforts challenges the attachment of democracy to the spaces of nation states and the imagined world of inter-national relations. Scholars have responded with attempts to rethink ‘territory’, ‘sovereignty’, ‘space’ and ‘democracy’ – for example work on ‘de-nationalising’ states ((Kauppi, 2012), on the changing nature of ‘state spaces’ (Brenner, 2004), on ‘paradiplomacy’ (Lecours , 2002) on cities as ‘partners in global governance’ (McCarney et al 2011) and the transnational politics around climate change (for example, Bouteligier, 2013, Bulkeley, 2012).
Yet, there is still only limited discussion across the disciplinary boundaries between politics and international relations on the one side, and the ‘urban disciplines’ on the other, to capture the complex inter-relationship between the ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ of cities, as state territories and institutions face competing lines of communication, interaction and alinance building, also questioning practices of democratic representation and legitimation of action
Some imaginative claims are being made for a future of global "parliament of mayors" (Barber, 2013), for ‘self-organising cities’ (Magnusson, 2011) or a ‘global network of trading cities’ (Brookings, 2013). Yet, are these claims hyperbole or indications of likely scenarios? Contributions are invited that will explore such claims in a theoretically grounded understanding of the changing forms of democracy in its territorial and spatial manifestation in the contemporary world, and the mechanisms of linking strategic alliance to state structure.
References:
Barber, B (2013): If Mayors Ruled the World. Yale University Press
www.theatlanticcities.com/politics/2012/06/what-if-mayors-ruled-world/1505/
Brenner, N (2004): New State Spaces. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Bouteligier, S (2013): Cities, Networks and Global Environmental Governance,
London: Routledge
Brookings Institute 2013b Global Cities Initiative, www.brookings.edu/projects/global-cities.aspx
Bulkeley, H (2012): Governance and the Geography of Authority: Modalities of
Authorisation and the Transnational Governing of Climate Change. In: Environment and Planning A, vol 44, pp 2428 – 2444
Kauppi N (ed, 2012): A political sociology of transnational Europe, ECPR press: Colchester
Lecours, A (2002): Paradiplomacy: Reflections on the Foreign Policy and International Relations of
Regions. In: International Negotiation 7: 91–114
Magnusson W 2011 Politics of Urbanism: Seeing Like a City, London: Routledge
McCarney, P., Segbers K., Amen M, Toly N ( 2011): Concluding Remarks, In: M Amen, N Toly, P
McCarney and K Segbers (eds): Cities and Global Governance, Farnham: Ashgate
PLEASE SEND EXPRESSIONS OF INTERESTS IN THE FORM OF AN ABSTRACT OF AROUND 250 WORDS UNTIL FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
TO THE SESSION ORGANISERS:
DR TASSILO HERRSCHEL ([log in to unmask]) AND PROF PETER NEWMAN ([log in to unmask])
Thank you
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Dr Tassilo Herrschel, FRGS, FeRSA
Reader (Associate Professor) in Urban and Regional Development and Governance;
Director, Centre for Urban and Regional Governance (CURG),
Contact:
Department of Politics and International Relations
University of Westminster,
32-38 Wells Street
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NEW BOOK:
Cities, State and Globalization. City-Regional Governance in Europe and North America. Routledge (Dec 2013)
weblink: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415489386/
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