ISSN:
1070-289X
Language:
English
Titel der Quelle:
Identities : global studies in culture and power
Publ. der Quelle:
London [u.a.] : Taylor & Francis
Angaben zur Quelle:
Vol. 23, No. 1 (2016), p. 66-18
DDC:
320
Abstract:
Taking cities as analytical entry points for investigating practice, identity and place-making, this article explores the differential restructurings of locality in the twin cities of Görlitz and Zgorzelec on the German-Polish border. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, it shows how the local cities′ leaderships are attempting to wrestle the cities out of their downmarket positioning in the global economy. Deploying a performative research strategy of methodological relationalism, the article examines intersections between these cities′ strategies of situating local youth within urban regeneration and cross-border projects and local youth′s preferences for engaging in other kinds of place-making. By 'seeing' the cities in border regions through practices of place-making within the multiscalar processes of urban regeneration, new insights about 'place' are generated in which city branding is not the only kind of local restructuring to be acknowledged.
Note:
Copyright: © 2015 Taylor & Francis 2015
DOI:
10.1080/1070289X.2015.1016523
URL:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1070289X.2015.1016523
URL:
http://search.proquest.com/docview/1735016072
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