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Introduction to a Debate on City‐Regions: New Geographies of Governance, Democracy and Social Reproduction
Author(s) -
JONAS ANDREW E.G.,
WARD KEVIN
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
international journal of urban and regional research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.456
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 1468-2427
pISSN - 0309-1317
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2007.00711.x
Subject(s) - regionalism (politics) , citizenship , politics , reification (marxism) , corporate governance , political science , political economy , democracy , reproduction , sociology , economic system , economics , law , ecology , finance , biology
In this introduction to a special Debates and Developments forum on city‐regions, we argue that the recent revival of interest in city‐regions has been constructed around a rather narrow set of empirical and theoretical issues relating to exchange, interspatial competition and globalization. The ‘new’ city‐regionalism results in a reification of the city‐region as an autonomous political agent of the global space economy. We outline an alternative approach to investigating and understanding geographies of city‐regionalism, highlighting: a politics of governance and state re‐territorialization around the city‐region; the role of democracy and citizenship in city‐region politics; and tensions around social reproduction and sustainability across the city‐region.