UNDERSTANDING SCALAR POLITICS THROUGH THE FRAMEWORK OF RELATIONAL ARCHIPELAGOS: The Case of Shenzhen Fair, China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
June Wang
Keyword(s):  
Scalar Politics

scholarly journals Leadership and Change in Asia-Pacific: Where Does Political Will Come From?

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 131-135
Author(s):  
David Hudson ◽  
Nicolas Lemay-Hébert ◽  
Claire Mcloughlin ◽  
Chris Roche
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Issue ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Political Will ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
Scalar Politics ◽  
Collective Process ◽  
Leadership And Change

We introduce this thematic issue by exploring the role of leadership in social and political change. In current times, the importance of leadership and choice has proved as important as ever. Leadership is often the critical variable separating success or failure, legitimacy and sustainability or collapse. This thematic issue explores a range of in-depth case studies across the Asia-Pacific region that help illustrate the critical elements of leadership. Collectively they demonstrate that leadership is best understood as a collective process involving motivated agents overcoming barriers to cooperation to form coalitions that have enough power, legitimacy and influence to transform institutions. Five themes emerge from the thematic issue as a whole: leadership is political; the centrality of gender relations; the need for a more critical localism; scalar politics; and the importance of understanding informal processes of leadership and social change.

scholarly journals From place to emplacement: the scalar politics of sustainability

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 447-462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth S. Barron ◽  
Laura Hartman ◽  
Frederik Hagemann
Keyword(s):  
Scalar Politics

scholarly journals The politics of scale in the coordinated management and emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aoife Delaney
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
The United States ◽  
Politics Of Scale ◽  
Scalar Politics

This commentary examines how coordinated management and emergency response (CMER) have been mobilized within the United States and Ireland to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing upon a performative conception of scale, I argue that it is crucial to recognize the potency of the scalar politics of CMER organization to understand the differences in public health responses within and between political jurisdictions.

Scalar Politics of Climate Change: Regions, Emissions and Responsibility

2012 ◽  
Vol 143 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon Waitt ◽  
Carol Farbotko ◽  
Barbara Criddle
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
New South ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Social ◽  
Geographical Scale ◽  
Scalar Politics ◽  
Climate Change Politics

The print media have facilitated multiple types of claim-making and an oppositional climate change politics. Drawing on arguments about the social construction of geographical scale as a category for understanding media practice, this article examines such politics. We focus on the Illawarra Mercury, the only daily newspaper in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, to showcase exactly how this tabloid newspaper engages readers in a scalar politics of climate change. We argue that a regional scalar politics shapes the framing of emissions in the Illawarra Mercury. A key question organising this article concerns the way in which geographical scale is invoked, and reproduced, in this newspaper to structure a certain rationale in reporting on emissions from one of Australia's largest greenhouse gas emitters, the Port Kembla Steelworks. The argument is that the regional scale is evoked as a pre-given, natural and contained entity to justify why the steelworks need not shoulder greenhouse gas emissions reductions. We argue that a better understanding of scalar politics is integral to explain how responsibility for emissions is shifted elsewhere.

Exposing scale hegemonies

2019 ◽  
pp. 35-46
Author(s):  
Natalie Papanastasiou
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Discourse Theory ◽  
Politics Of Scale ◽  
Education Governance ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Scalar Politics ◽  
European Education ◽  
Introductory Discussion ◽  
Over Time

The first aim of this chapter is to present an introductory discussion to the book’s empirical focus on education governance. It demonstrates that education governance is a field that is teeming with politics of scale and therefore constitutes an ideal focus for exploring the book’s overarching conceptual puzzle. The second aim of the chapter is to present a useful entry point for policy scholars seeking to explore possible practices of scalecraft in policy contexts. The discussion outlines the key tenets of a genealogical perspective which draws on political discourse theory and pays particular analytical attention to the ‘dislocatory moments’ of policy. By tracing how European education policy evolved over time, the discussion empirically illustrates how a genealogical perspective is an invaluable lens for exposing the contingency of scale hegemonies and that this serves as an essential starting point for problematising scalar politics.

scholarly journals The urban resource nexus: On the politics of relationality, water–energy infrastructure and the fallacy of integration

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 652-669 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe Williams ◽  
Stefan Bouzarovski ◽  
Erik Swyngedouw
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Energy Infrastructure ◽  
Environmental Challenges ◽  
The Past ◽  
Its Analysis ◽  
Scalar Politics

The ‘resource nexus’ has emerged over the past decade as an important new paradigm of environmental governance, which emphasises the interconnections, tensions and synergies between sectors that have traditionally been managed separately. Nexus thinking presents itself as a radically new approach to integrated governance in response to interconnected socio-environmental challenges and constraints. This paper provides a critical review of nexus thinking. The nexus paradigm, we contend, is part of a broader trend towards integrated environmental governance where previously externalised ‘bad’ nature is increasingly internalised by capital. In general, the nexus discourse has become techno-managerial in style, linear in its analysis and reductionist in its recommendations. Focussing particularly on urban water and energy infrastructure as important political sites in the (re)configuration of resource connectivities, we advance two principal arguments. Firstly, that the current nexus thinking inadequately conceptualises the scalar politics of interconnections between resource sectors. Secondly, we challenge the currently pervasive focus on technological and institutional ‘solutions’, efficiency-oriented ecological modernist vision and the presentation of ‘integration’ as a panacea for unsustainable resource practices.

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