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The City as a Global Political Actor (Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City) by Bassens, David; Beeckmans, Luce; Braeckmans, Luc; Derudder, Ben; Oosterlynck, Stijn; Segaert, Barbara is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"This book engages with the thorny question of global urban political agency. It critically assesses the now popular statement that in the context of paralysed and failing nation-state governments, cities can and will provide leadership in addressing global challenges. Cities can act politically on the global scale, but the analysis of global urban political agency needs to be firmly embedded in the field of urban studies. Collectively, the chapters in this volume contextualise urban agency in time and space and pluralise it by looking at how urban agency is nurtured through coalitions between a wide range of public and private actors. The authors develop and critically assess the conceptual underpinnings of the notion of global urban political agency from a variety of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives. The second part contains several (theoretically informed) empirical analyses of global urban political agency in cities around the globe. This book geographically expands analysis by looking beyond global cities in diverse contexts. It is highly recommended reading for scholars in the fields of international relations and urban studies who are looking for an interdisciplina

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Author

Bassens, David; Beeckmans, Luce; Braeckmans, Luc; Derudder, Ben; Oosterlynck, Stijn; Segaert, Barbara

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Group; Routledge

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781351330749

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Political Science, Social Science