- Title
- State, strategy, and scale in the competitive city: a neo-Gramscian analysis of the governance of 'global Sydney'
- Creator
- McGuirk, Pauline M.
- Relation
- Environment and Planning A Vol. 36, Issue 6, p. 1019-1043
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a36131
- Publisher
- Pion Ltd
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2004
- Description
- In this paper I argue that a neo-Gramscian strategic relational approach (SRA) offers the relational and constructivist perspectives necessary to enhance our concrete and theoretical understandings of urban governance. Moreover, I argue for the utility of using discourse as a productive entry point for neo-Gramscian analysis. Taking a discursive approach to a case study of the governance of 'global Sydney' since the mid-1990s, I explore how engaging a neo-Gramscian SRA can connect theoretically informed explanation of the practical accomplishment of urban governance to its broader politico-economic embeddedness and to the territoriality of the state. I explore how the activation of Sydney's governance via the hegemonic project of producing the 'competitive city' is shaping a contingent and scaled state form -- with a specific (and scaled) institutional form, regime of representation, and range of interventions. Additionally, I consider how counterhegemonic claims and currents shape this process. The relational and constructivist perspectives of the neo-Gramscian SRA ensure that, at all times, urban governance is understood both as a multiscalar production and as a political construction. The result of neo-Gramscian analysis, then, is more theoretically informed and theoretically informative studies of the situated practice of urban governance.
- Subject
- neo-Gramscian; strategic relational approach; SRA; urban governance
- Identifier
- uon:911
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/26514
- Identifier
- ISSN:0308-518X
- Rights
- McGuirk, Pauline M. 2004. The definitive, peer-reviewed and edited version of this article is published in Environment and Planning A, 36, 6, 1019-1043, 2004, 10.1068/a36131
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