This is to announce a new research project that will
be conducted by our group: "GLOBAL: Relational cities and enclave urbanism
in the 'Singapores of the West'. How niche-sovereignty strategies and political
economy help minor metropolises to globalise. The cases of Geneva (CH) and
Luxembourg (L)”.
The
project is funded by the Fonds National de la Recherche (FNR), Luxembourg, and
will commence on 1st March 2016. It has a duration of three years.
GLOBAL complements previous research undertaken in the domains of sustainable
development in general and regional governance in particular (see the research
projects SUSTAINLUX and SUSTAIN_GOV), and it adds to our research trajectory on
the link between city-regions and flows. These flows include not only material
flows, but also the circulation of money or political ideas, and it
specifically aims to link concepts of relational cities with a new understanding
of how urban space is organised and governed.
The
project addresses three main issues. First, the research will deal with the
increasing degree of global integration of local places, an integration that is
not related to their economic or population size but which is an outcome of
their specialisation and the politics of niche-sovereignty. This will be done
by drawing on the idea of relational cities and the example of three cities:
Luxembourg, Geneva and Singapore. Second, the project will emphasise the
urban-regional implications of the integration of these cities into global
processes, with particular attention being paid to the emergence of specialised
locales that are rather distinct and, in locational terms, separated from
others. Here, it is the concept of enclave urbanism that will be mobilised to
frame the development and implications of actually existing enclaves in the
three relational cities investigated. And third, the project will interrogate
the links between the macro-scale notion of the relational city and the
meso-level concept of enclave urbanism by exploring how both of these imply
similar governance attitudes and practices. This will be done by juxtaposing
the traditions, beliefs and dilemmas of the key actors involved in both the original
development of the case study cities as relational and of those responsible for
the generation of enclave urbanism.
By
investigating three enclave spaces in each of the three relational cities, the
project will both strengthen the central concepts, develop a theoretical link
between them on the basis of governance practices and generate insights on the
three cities and their urban systems. In so doing, it will also contribute to
detect both the “other” in globalisation, which is its local or regional imprint,
and also the processes and dynamics that are going on “out there”, and study
the manifold forms in which these two are linked together.
PLEASE NOTE:
We are seeking an
experienced post-doc for collaborating in this research project over the next three
years, to become a member of the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning at
the University of Luxembourg. Please find more information about the post here:
http://emea3.mrted.ly/we83
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