New State Spaces - Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood

Zusatztext intellectually rich and challenging. Brenner seamlessly moves between major intellectual traditions, confidently borrowing and recombining arguments and perspectives. The claims are sophisticated and certain to recast debates about the role of cities in the era of globalization. Informationen zum Autor Date of Birth: 1969 Ph.D, Political Science, University of Chicago (1999); M. A. Geography, University of California Los Angeles (1995); M. A. Political Science, University of Chicago (1994); B. A. Philosophy, Yale, Summa Cum Laude (1991). Co-editor with Bob Jessop, Martin Jones, and Gordon MacLeod: State/Space: A Reader (Oxford and Boston: Blackwell, 2003). Co-editor with Nik Theodore: Spaces of Neoliberalism: Urban Restructuring in Western Europe and North America. (Oxford and Boston: Blackwell, 2002). Has written numerous refereed journal articles, book chapters, book reviews, review essays; has co-guest edited two special issues of 'Antipode'; has translated work by Henri Lefbvre and Klaus Ronneberger. Forthcoming: Co-edited with Roger Keil: The Global Cities Reader (New York and London: Routledge, 2005) Proposal under consideration by Temple University Press: With Bob Jessop, Martin Jones, and Gordon MacLeod: The New Political Economy of Scale Zusammenfassung Analyzes the restructuring of urban governance and the transformation of national states under globalizing capitalism.

Product details

• Authors: Neil Brenner, Neil (Assistant Professor Brenner, Brenner Neil
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.09.2004
• EAN: 9780199270057
• ISBN: 978-0-19-927005-7
• No. of pages: 372
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Europe, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, American English, Comparative Politics, Social impact of disasters, Human Geography, c 1990 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 1999, Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made)