Spatial Entrepreneurs
Actors and Practices of Space-Making Under the Global Condition
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Spatial Entrepreneurs
Actors and Practices of Space-Making Under the Global Condition
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As essential components of globalization, the study of practices and processes of space formation promotes a nuanced understanding of globalization. How do people create spaces for social action under the global condition, especially since the nineteenth century, when global interconnectedness increased rapidly? We explore the problem through specific case studies. Anthropologists, historians, geographers, sociologists, global studies scholars, and cultural studies scholars examine the agency of, e.g., members and staff of African regional organizations, Indian migrant workers, female GDR activists, Soviet planning experts, or US novelists. By studying elites as well as middle-class and micro-entrepreneurs â i.e. more and less influential actors â we encourage reflection on the relationship between power and space and examine how spatial entrepreneurs attempt to influence the shaping of space and their spatial literacy. The analysis aims at a better understanding of the different globalization projects, their crisis-like clashes, and the resulting conflictual development of spatial orders.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- 1âBetween Empirical Messiness and Theoretical Ambition: Introducing Interdisciplinary Conversations on Actors and Practices of Space-Making Under the Global Condition
- 2ââThrough Impenetrable Thicket and Swampsâ: Negotiating US National Space in Popular Narratives about the Florida Frontier
- 3âNational Forms with Economic Content? Gosplanâs Expertise on Territorializing the Soviet State, 1921â1930
- 4âTracing Female Spatial Entrepreneurs: SWAPO Womenâs Council, the Democratic Womenâs Union, and Their Womenâs Sewing Centre in Tsumeb, Namibia, 1990â1992
- 5âRoutinizing Digital Banking: Kiosks as New Spaces of Social Action in Contemporary India
- 6âRockefeller Foundationâs 100 Resilient Cities Programme: Principles of the Art of Organizing Socioecological Transformation by Philanthropic Means
- 7âUnderstanding Complex, Collective Actors at African Regional Organizations: AU and ECOWAS Intervention in The Gambia
- 8âScaled Regulatory Regimes under the Global Condition: An Example from Organ Transplantation
- List of Abbreviations
- Index