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Foregrounding Urban AgendasMetropolitanizing a Nordic State? City-Regionalist Imaginary and the Restructuring of the State as a Territorial Political Community in Finland

Foregrounding Urban Agendas: Metropolitanizing a Nordic State? City-Regionalist Imaginary and the... [In this chapter, we study the effects of city-regionalismCity-regionalism on state spatialityState spatiality and on stateState as a territorial political communityTerritorial political community in the Finnish context. We conceptualize city-regionalismCity-regionalism as an economic-geographical imaginary that has recently emerged as the dominant spatial framework informing national spatial policies and territorial strategies in the context of the capitalist world economy. The effects of cityCities-regional policies and strategies on national economies‚ on the statesState’ physical spacesSpace‚ or on the institutional arrangements of territorial governanceGovernance have been discussed widely in political and academic circles. However, the potential implications of the imaginary of city-regionalismCity-regionalism on the stateState as a territorial political communityTerritorial political community have received less attention. In this chapter, we seek to fill this gap by scrutinizing cityCities-regionalist policies and discourse in the Finnish context through Hannah Arendt’s concepts of politics and political communityPolitical community. We start with the view that a stateState, even if nationally scaled, is at least potentially a more inclusive and plural form of political communityPolitical community than any cityCities or metropolis. Based on our empirical analysis of the cityCities-regionalist discourse, we argue that city-regionalismCity-regionalism is an exclusive and selective imaginary, which builds on a peculiar form of depoliticized politics fueled by particular forms of economic knowledge and rationales. Moreover, the imaginary privileges specific urban localities, issues, and actors as politically appropriate topics of public deliberationPublic deliberation and as relevant subjects of national political concern. Accordingly, cityCities-regionalist imaginary not only contributes to the transformation of the stateState’s physical territorial structure but also considerably delimits the public space of politicsPublic space of politics, the notion of citizen-subjectCitizen-subject—and eventually, the stateState as a territorial political communityTerritorial political community. ] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Foregrounding Urban AgendasMetropolitanizing a Nordic State? City-Regionalist Imaginary and the Restructuring of the State as a Territorial Political Community in Finland

Part of the The Urban Book Series Book Series
Editors: Armondi, Simonetta; De Gregorio Hurtado, Sonia
Sirviö, Heikki; Luukkonen, Juho
Foregrounding Urban Agendas — Nov 1, 2019
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Springer International Publishing
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© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
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978-3-030-29072-6
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211 –227
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-29073-3_10
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Abstract

[In this chapter, we study the effects of city-regionalismCity-regionalism on state spatialityState spatiality and on stateState as a territorial political communityTerritorial political community in the Finnish context. We conceptualize city-regionalismCity-regionalism as an economic-geographical imaginary that has recently emerged as the dominant spatial framework informing national spatial policies and territorial strategies in the context of the capitalist world economy. The effects of cityCities-regional policies and strategies on national economies‚ on the statesState’ physical spacesSpace‚ or on the institutional arrangements of territorial governanceGovernance have been discussed widely in political and academic circles. However, the potential implications of the imaginary of city-regionalismCity-regionalism on the stateState as a territorial political communityTerritorial political community have received less attention. In this chapter, we seek to fill this gap by scrutinizing cityCities-regionalist policies and discourse in the Finnish context through Hannah Arendt’s concepts of politics and political communityPolitical community. We start with the view that a stateState, even if nationally scaled, is at least potentially a more inclusive and plural form of political communityPolitical community than any cityCities or metropolis. Based on our empirical analysis of the cityCities-regionalist discourse, we argue that city-regionalismCity-regionalism is an exclusive and selective imaginary, which builds on a peculiar form of depoliticized politics fueled by particular forms of economic knowledge and rationales. Moreover, the imaginary privileges specific urban localities, issues, and actors as politically appropriate topics of public deliberationPublic deliberation and as relevant subjects of national political concern. Accordingly, cityCities-regionalist imaginary not only contributes to the transformation of the stateState’s physical territorial structure but also considerably delimits the public space of politicsPublic space of politics, the notion of citizen-subjectCitizen-subject—and eventually, the stateState as a territorial political communityTerritorial political community. ]

Published: Nov 1, 2019

Keywords: City-regionalism; Urbanization; Depoliticization; Arendt

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