Spatial Entrepreneurs: Actors and Practices of Space-Making Under the Global Condition

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2023

Spatial Entrepreneurs

Actors and Practices of Space-Making Under the Global Condition

Edited by: Steffi Marung and Ursula Rao

Volume 7 in the series Dialectics of the Global

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110686418

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About this book

As essential components of globalization, the study of practices and processes of space formation promotes a nuanced understanding of globalization. How do people create spaces for social action under the global condition, especially since the nineteenth century, when global interconnectedness increased rapidly? We explore the problem through specific case studies. Anthropologists, historians, geographers, sociologists, global studies scholars, and cultural studies scholars examine the agency of, e.g., members and staff of African regional organizations, Indian migrant workers, female GDR activists, Soviet planning experts, or US novelists. By studying elites as well as middle-class and micro-entrepreneurs – i.e. more and less influential actors – we encourage reflection on the relationship between power and space and examine how spatial entrepreneurs attempt to influence the shaping of space and their spatial literacy. The analysis aims at a better understanding of the different globalization projects, their crisis-like clashes, and the resulting conflictual development of spatial orders.

Author / Editor information

Steffi Marung, Leipzig University; Ursula Rao, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/ Saale, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
On the Series Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
1 Between Empirical Messiness and Theoretical Ambition: Introducing Interdisciplinary Conversations on Actors and Practices of Space-Making Under the Global Condition Steffi Marung Open Access Download PDF	1
2 “Through Impenetrable Thicket and Swamps”: Negotiating US National Space in Popular Narratives about the Florida Frontier Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez Open Access Download PDF	17
3 National Forms with Economic Content? Gosplan’s Expertise on Territorializing the Soviet State, 1921–1930 Stephan Rindlisbacher Open Access Download PDF	39
4 Tracing Female Spatial Entrepreneurs: SWAPO Women’s Council, the Democratic Women’s Union, and Their Women’s Sewing Centre in Tsumeb, Namibia, 1990–1992 Hanna Rössner Open Access Download PDF	59
5 Routinizing Digital Banking: Kiosks as New Spaces of Social Action in Contemporary India Srividya Balasubramanian Open Access Download PDF	91
6 Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities Programme: Principles of the Art of Organizing Socioecological Transformation by Philanthropic Means Pascal Goeke and Evelyn Moser Open Access Download PDF	113
7 Understanding Complex, Collective Actors at African Regional Organizations: AU and ECOWAS Intervention in The Gambia Katharina P. W. Döring and Jens Herpolsheimer Open Access Download PDF	137
8 Scaled Regulatory Regimes under the Global Condition: An Example from Organ Transplantation Frank Meyer and Judith Miggelbrink Open Access Download PDF	159
List of Abbreviations Open Access Download PDF	185
List of Contributors Open Access Download PDF	187
Index Open Access Download PDF	191

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Wissenschaftler/-innen der Fachrichtungen Anthropologie, Geschichte, Geografie, Soziologie und Kulturwissenschaften
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 197
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 5
- Coloured Illustrations: 3
Keywords: Space; Globalisation; Society; Social action

eBook

Published: August 7, 2023
ISBN: 9783110686418

Hardcover

Published: July 24, 2023
ISBN: 9783110639674