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Book SynopsisSuitable for students and scholars of anthropology, geography, sociology, planning, and urban studies, and globalisation and political science, this volume demonstrates, however, that cities are especially salient sites for examining the renegotiations of citizenship, democracy, and national belonging.Trade Review" ... the contributors to Cities and Citizenship all share a belief that cities are once again acquiring a new significance in determining the rights of the citizen."--TLS, October 15, 1999 "Cities and Citizenship is a welcome contribution to the literature on citizenship and politics in the context of globalization ... this is a wonderful book. The contributions to the collection provide important insights and examples ... [and makes] important contributions ... to our understanding of new spaces and forms of citizenship. I highly recommend this book."--Urban Studies, Vol 37, No. 1, 2000Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Cities and Citizenship / James Holston and Arjun Appadurai Part One Cities and the Making of Citizens Intellectuals, Cities, and Citizenship in the United States: The 1890s and 1990s / Thomas Bender Urban Youth and Senegalese Politics: Dakar 1988-1994 / Mamadou Diouf Islamic Modernities? Citizenship, Civil Society, and Islamism in a Nigerian City / Michael Watts Sao Paulo: Photographic Essay / Cristiano Mascaro Fortified Enclaves: The New Urban Segregation / Theresa P. R. Caldeira Genealogy: Lincoln Steffens on New York / Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar and Christopher Kamrath Spaces of Insurgent Citizenship / James Holston Part Two Cities and Transnational Formations Whose City Is It? Globalization and the Formation of New Claims / Saskia Sassen Is European Citizenship Possible? / Etienne Balibar Violence, Culture, and Democracy: A European Perspective / Michel Wieviorka From the Atlas to the Alps: Chronicle of a Moroccan Migration / Marco Jacquemet Contributors Index

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Book Synopsis* The first volume to present an accessible yet challenging overview of the changing geographies of state power under capitalism. * A unique, interdisciplinary collection of contributions by major theorists and analysts of state spatial restructuring in the current era.Trade Review"This useful and interesting reader addresses an emergent research agenda on the production and transformation of state space" Johanna Kantola, Univeristy of BristolTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: State Space in Question 1 Neil Brenner, Bob Jessop, Martin Jones, and Gordon MacLeod Part I Theoretical Foundations 27 1 Exploration, Cartography and the Modernization of State Power 29 Marcelo Escolar 2 The Autonomous Power of the State: Its Origins, Mechanisms and Results 53 Michael Mann 3 The Nation 65 Nicos Poulantzas 4 Space and the State 84 Henri Lefebvre 5 The State as Container: Territoriality in the Modern World-System 101 Peter J. Taylor Part II Remaking State Territorialities 115 6 The State of Globalization: Towards a Theory of State Transformation 117 Martin Shaw 7 The Rise of East Asia and the Withering Away of the Interstate System 131 Giovanni Arrighi 8 The Struggle over European Order: Transnational Class Agency in the Making of ``Embedded Neo-Liberalism'' 147 Bastiaan van Apeldoorn 9 The Imagined Economy: Mapping Transformations in the Contemporary State 165 Angus Cameron and Ronen Palan 10 Debordering the World of States: Toward a Multi-Level System in Europe and a Multi-Polity System in North America? Insights from Border Regions 185 Joachim K. Blatter 11 Rethinking Globalisation: Re-articulating the Spatial Scale and Temporal Horizons of Trans-Border Spaces 208 Ngai-Ling Sum Part III Reshaping Political Spaces 225 12 Remaking Scale: Competition and Cooperation in Pre-National and Post-National Europe 227 Neil Smith 13 The National and the Regional: Their Autonomy Vis-aÁ-Vis the Capitalist World Crisis 239 Alain Lipietz Government in Western Europe 256 Michael Keating 15 Globalization Makes States: Perspectives on Local Governance in the Age of the World City 278 Roger Keil 16 Cities and Citizenship 296 James Holston and Arjun Appadurai 17 Citizenship, Territoriality and the Gendered Construction of Difference 309 Nira Yuval-Davis 18 Shadows and Sovereigns 326 Carolyn Nordstrom Subject Index 344 Name Index 354

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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking, interdisciplinary volume brings together diverse analyses of state space in historical and contemporary capitalism. The first volume to present an accessible yet challenging overview of the changing geographies of state power under capitalism. A unique, interdisciplinary collection of contributions by major theorists and analysts of state spatial restructuring in the current era. Investigates some of the new political spaces that are emerging under contemporary conditions of globalization''. Explores state restructuring on multiple spatial scales, and from a range of theoretical, methodological and empirical perspectives. Covers a range of topical issues in contemporary geographical political economy. Contains case study material on Western Europe, North America and East Asia, as well as parts of Africa and South America. Trade Review"This useful and interesting reader addresses an emergent research agenda on the production and transformation of state space" Johanna Kantola, Univeristy of BristolTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction: State Space in Question: Neil Brenner, Bob Jessop, Martin Jones, Gordon MacLeod (New York University; Lancaster University; University of Wales Aberystwyth; University of Durham). Part I: Theoretical Foundations:. 1 Exploration, Cartography and the Modernization of State Power: Marcelo Escolar (Director of the Institute de Geografía). 2 The Autonomous Power of the State: Michael Mann (University of Virginia). 3 The Nation: Nicos Poulantzas. 4 Space and the State: Henri Lefebrve. 5 The State as Container: Territoriality in the Modern World System: Peter J. Taylor (University of Newcastle). Part II: Remaking State Territorialities:. 6 The State of Globalization: Towards a Theory of State Transformation: Martin Shaw (University of Sussex). 7 The Rise of East Asia and the Withering Away of the Interstate System: Giovanni Arrighi (The Johns Hopkins University). 8 The Struggle over European Order: Transnational Class Agency in the Making of 'Embedded Neo-Liberalism'': Bastian Van Apeldoorn. 9 The Imagined Economy: Mapping Transformations in the Contemporary State: Angus Cameron and Ronen Palan (University of Leicester; University of Sussex). 10 Debordering the World of States Towards a Multi-Level System in Europe and a Multi-Polity System in North America? Insights from Border Regions: Joachim K. Blatter (University of Konstanz). 11 Re-articulating Spatial Scale and Temporal Horizons of Trans-border Spaces: Ngai-Ling Sum (University of Lancashire). Part III: Reshaping Political Spaces:. 12 Remaking Scale: Competition and Cooperation in Prenational and Postnational Europe: Neil Smith (Graduate Center and Hunter College). 13 The National and the Regional: Their Autonomy vis-à-vis the Capitalist World Crisis: Alain Lipietz. 14 The Invention of Regions: political restructuring and territorial government in Western Europe: Michael Keating. 15 Globalization Makes States: Local Governance in the Age of the World City: Roger Keil. 16 Cities and Citizenship: James Holston and Arjun Appadurai (University of California, San Diego: University of Chicago). 17 Citizenship, Territoriality and the Gendered Construction of Difference: Nira Yuval-Davis. 18 Shadows and Sovereigns: Caroline Nordstrom. Subject Index. Name Index.

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