Novy, Andreas. 2009. Cities, Regions and Social Cohesion. Regional Studies Association Annual International Conference, Leuven, Belgien, 06.04.-08.04. Invited Talk
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This presentation aims at a broader understanding of social cohesion in urban and regional development by a scale-sensitive analysis which overcomes current post-democratic and fragmented policy making. Parting from the current world crisis in its financial, economic, ecological and social dimensions, this presentation contextualizes the challenge of cohesive socio-economic development beyond conventional approaches of social and socio-cultural policies. World-wide economic dynamics, which have to be grasped in its profoundly political dimensions, are decisive for all attempts at urban and regional cohesion. Urban research has assumed a global perspective in line with the World-City-approach which has led to a deficient understanding of economic development inclined towards a sole logic of international capital as well as supply-side explanations. Within this framework social cohesion was reduced to a specific problematique of curing the wounds caused by neoliberal modernisation. This has played down social policy to repairing damages caused by a proclaimed eternal socio-economic order ("There is no alternative") based on private property, market economy and competitiveness-oriented policy making. In the city, it was real estate and finance capital - the most advanced and mobile forms of capital- embedded in neoliberal discourse which dictated the rules of a game with often negative effects on social cohesion.
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Status of publication | Published |
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Affiliation | WU |
Type of publication | Paper presented at an academic conference or symposium |
Language | English |
Title | Cities, Regions and Social Cohesion |
Event | Regional Studies Association Annual International Conference |
Year | 2009 |
Date | 06.04.-08.04. |
Country | Belgium |
Location | Leuven |
URL | http://www.regional-studies-assoc.ac.uk/events/pastevents.asp |
Invited Talk | Y |
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- Research areas (Ă–STAT Classification 'Statistik Austria')
- 5105 International relations (Details)
- 5325 Political economics (Details)
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- 5406 Foreign aid (Details)
- 5415 Economic sociology (Details)
- 5608 Regional development planning (Details)
- 5610 Urban development planning (Details)
- 5611 Urban and regional analysis (Details)
- 5618 Regional economy (Details)
- 5912 Social sciences (interdisciplinary) (Details)
- 5915 Economic geography (Details)