The nation-state and the city: introduction to a debate

Andrew E.G. Jonas, David Wilson

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Abstract

In recent years, the urban political landscape has become infused with a potent and incendiary mixture of popular-democratic, anti-globalisation, and separatist rhetoric. One central process driving this has been the problematic relations between the nation-state and the city. This Debates and Interventions forum aims to prompt a debate about where the city should be situated intellectually in respect of the nation-state. Four questions are addressed: (1) How do contemporary processes of urban development reflect changing national geopolitical priorities? (2) To what extent are struggles around immigration, citizenship and recognition conducted within cities rather than around the nation-state? (3) To what degree does the city (as e.g. a physical form, social environment or discourse) help to mobilise, propel and/or contest this new urban politics? And (4) Is the concept of a “post-national” global order appropriate for understanding the city and urban politics today?.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1418-1420
Number of pages3
JournalUrban Geography
Volume39
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 21 2018

Keywords

  • Urban populism
  • democracy
  • geopolitics
  • nation-state
  • urban-rural

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Geography, Planning and Development
  • Urban Studies

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