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Fluid City, Solid State: Urban Environmental Territory in a State of Emergency, Kathmandu
Author(s) -
RADEMACHER ANNE M.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
city and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1548-744X
pISSN - 0893-0465
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-744x.2008.00008.x
Subject(s) - beautification , politics , state (computer science) , corporate governance , environmental governance , power (physics) , geography , environmental security , political science , economic geography , sociology , economy , civil engineering , engineering , management , law , economics , physics , algorithm , quantum mechanics , computer science
This paper addresses the relationship between contemporary territorial processes of statemaking and the fluidity associated with globalizing cities. Focused on the remaking of urban environmental space during a period of political emergency in Kathmandu, the paper examines how state power was sustained and articulated through the production of urban environmental forms, and shows how particular modes of violence and governance were enabled in urban environmental territory. Through an analysis of beautification initiatives undertaken in concert with preparations for a major regional trade conference, I argue that urban environmental productions are critical for understanding the semiotics, multiple scales, and materialities of statemaking in twenty‐first century cities.