Questioning the Theoretical Basis of Current Global-City Research: Structures, Networks and Actor-Networks

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 24-39

  Smith, Richard G ^a   Doel, Marcus A ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Actor network theory; Global city; World city network

Indexed keywords

ACTOR NETWORK THEORY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; RESEARCH WORK; SOCIAL NETWORK; THEORETICAL STUDY; URBAN SOCIETY; WORLD CITY;

EID: 78650239968     PISSN: 03091317     EISSN: 14682427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2010.00940.x     Document Type: Article

References (67)

1. Althusser, L. (1977) For Marx. Verso, London.
2. Badiou, A. (2003) Infinite thought. Continuum, London.
3. Badiou, A. (2005a) The subject of art [WWW document]. URL (accessed 19 November 2006).
4. Badiou, A. (2005b) Being and event. Continuum, London.
5. Badiou, A. (2006) Theoretical writings. Continuum, London.
6. Badiou, A. (2008) De quel réel cette crise est-elle le spectacle? Le Monde 13 November [WWW document]. URL (accessed 10 January 2010).
7. Baudrillard, J. (1990) Seduction. Macmillan, London.
8. Beaverstock, J.V. and M.A. Doel (2001) Unfolding the spatial architecture of the East Asian financial crisis: the organizational response of global investment banks. Geoforum 32.1, 15-32.
9. Beaverstock, J.V., M.A. Doel, P.J. Hubbard and P.J. Taylor (2002) Attending to the world: competition, cooperation and connectivity in the world city network. Global Networks 2.2, 111-32.
10. Beaverstock, J.V., R.G. Smith and P.J. Taylor (1999) A roster of world cities. Cities 16.6, 445-58.
11. Beaverstock, J.V., R.G. Smith and P.J. Taylor (2000a) World city network: a new metageography? Annals of the Association of American Geographers 90, 123-34.
12. Beaverstock, J.V., R.G. Smith and P.J. Taylor (2000b) Geographies of globalization: US law firms in world cities. Urban Geography 21.2, 95-120.
13. Beaverstock, J.V., R.G. Smith and P.J. Taylor (2003) The global capacity of a world city: a relational study of London. In E. Kofman and G. Youngs (eds.), Globalization: theory and practice, second edition, Continuum, London.
14. Beaverstock, J.V., R.G. Smith, P.J. Taylor, D.F.R. Walker and H.N. Lorimer (2000c) Globalization and world cities: some measurement methodologies. Applied Geography 20.1, 43-63.
15. Brenner, N. and R. Keil (eds.) (2006) The global cities reader. Routledge, London.
16. Buenza, D. and D. Stark (2003) The organization of responsiveness: innovation and recovery in the trading rooms of Lower Manhattan. Socio-Economic Review 1.2, 135-64.
17. Buenza, D. and D. Stark (2004) Tools of the trade: the socio-technology of arbitrage in a Wall Street trading room. Industrial and Corporate Change 13.2, 369-400.
18. Buenza, D. and D. Stark (2005) Resolving identities: successive crises in a trading room after 9/11. In N. Foner (ed.), Wounded City, Russell Sage Foundation, New York.
19. Callon, M. (ed.) (1998) The laws of the markets. Blackwell, Oxford.
20. Castells, M. (1996) The rise of the network society. Blackwell, Oxford.
21. Castells, M. (2000) Materials for an exploratory theory of the network society. British Journal of Sociology 51.1, 1-24.
22. Clark, G. (2005) Money flows like mercury: the geography of global finance. Geografiska Annaler B 87.2, 99-112.
23. Deleuze, G. (2004) Desert islands and other texts: 1953-1974. Semiotext(e), New York.
24. Deleuze, G. and F. Guattari (1986) Kafka: towards a minor literature. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis.
25. Deleuze, G. and F. Guattari (1988) A thousand plateaus: capitalism and schizophrenia. Athlone, London.
26. Doel, M.A. (2001) 1a. Qualified quantitative geography. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 19.5, 555-72.
27. Doel, M.A. (2006) Stranger than friction. In N. Castree and D. Gregory (eds.), David Harvey: a critical reader, Blackwell, Oxford.
28. Doel, M.A. and D.B. Clarke (2007) Afterimages. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 25.5, 890-910.
29. Doel, M.A. and P.J. Hubbard (2002) Taking world cities literally: marketing the city in a global space of flows. City 6.3, 351-68.
30. Farías, I. and T. Bender (eds.) (2010) Urban assemblages: How actor-network theory changes urban studies. Routledge, London.
31. Friedmann, J. (1986) The world city hypothesis. Development and Change 17, 69-83.
32. Houellebecq, M. (2001) Atomised. Vintage, London.
33. Knorr Cetina, K. and U. Bruegger (2001) Transparency regimes and management by content in global organizations: the case of institutional currency trading. Journal of Knowledge Management 5.2, 180-94.
34. Knorr Cetina, K. and U. Bruegger (2002a) Inhabiting technology: the global lifeform of financial markets. Current Sociology 50.3, 389-405.
35. Knorr Cetina, K. and U. Bruegger (2002b) Global microstructures: the virtual societies of financial markets. American Journal of Sociology 107.4, 905-50.
36. Knorr Cetina, K. and U. Bruegger (2004) Traders' engagement with markets: a postsocial relationship. In A. Amin and N. Thrift (eds.), Cultural economy reader, Blackwell, Oxford.
37. Knorr Cetina, K., D. Karin and U. Bruegger (2000) The market as an object of attachment: exploring postsocial relations in financial markets. Canadian Journal of Sociology 25.2, 141-68.
38. Knorr Cetina, K., D. Karin and A. Preda (2004) The sociology of financial markets. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
39. Latour, B. (2005) Reassembling the social: An introduction to actor-network theory. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
40. Law, J. (2000) Transitivities. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 18.2, 133-48.
41. Law, J. (2004) After method: mess in social science research. Routledge, London.
42. Lee, N. and S. Brown (1994) Otherness and the actor network: the undiscovered continent. American Behavioural Scientist 37.6, 772-90.
43. Lyotard, J-F. (1978) On the strength of the weak. Semiotext(e) 3.2, 204-14.
44. MacKenzie, D. (2001) Physics and finance: S-terms and modern finance as a topic for social studies. Science, Technology and Human Values 26.2, 115-44.
45. Mol, A. and J. Law (1994) Regions, networks and fluids: anaemia and social topology. Social Studies of Science 24, 641-71.
46. Pryke, M. (2007) Geomoney: an option on frost, going long on clouds. Geoforum 38.3, 576-88.
47. Sassen, S. (1991) The global city: New York London, Tokyo. Princeton University Press, Princeton.
48. Sassen, S. (1994) Cities in a world economy. Pine Forge, Thousand Oaks, CA.
49. Sassen, S. (2001a) The global city: New York London, Tokyo. Revised edition. Princeton University Press, Princeton.
50. Sassen, S. (2001b) Global cities and global city-regions: a comparison. In A. Scott (ed.), Global city-regions: trends, theory, policy, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
51. Sassen, S. (ed.) (2002) Global networks-linked cities. Routledge, London.
52. Schatzki, T., K. Knorr-Cetina and E. Savigny (eds.) (2001) The practice turn in contemporary theory. Routledge, London.
53. Schrage, M. (1999) Serious play: how the world's best companies simulate to innovate. Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA.
54. Serres, M. (1995) Genesis. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor.
55. Smith, R.G. (2003a) World city actor-networks. Progress in Human Geography 27.1, 25-44.
56. Smith, R.G. (2003b) World city topologies. Progress in Human Geography 27.5, 561-82.
57. Smith, R.G. (2005) Networking the city. Geography 90.2, 172-6.
58. Smith, R.G. (2007a) Poststructuralism, power and the global city. In P. Taylor, B. Derudder, P. Saey and F. Witlox (eds.), Cities in globalization: practices, policies and theories, Routledge, London.
59. Smith, R.G. (2007b) Place as network. In I. Douglas, R. Huggett and C. Perkins (eds.), Companion encyclopedia of geography, second edition, Routledge, London.
60. Smith, R.G. (2010) Urban studies without 'scale': localizing the global through Singapore. In I. Farías and T. Bender (eds.), Urban assemblages: how actor-network theory changes urban studies, Routledge, London.
61. Taylor, P.J. (2001) Specification of the world city network. Geographical Analysis 33.2, 181-94.
62. Taylor, P.J. (2004) World city network: a global urban analysis. Routledge, London.
63. Taylor, P.J., D.R.F. Walker, G. Catalano and M. Hoyler (2002) Diversity and power in the world city network. Cities 19.4, 231-41.
64. Thrift, N. (2000) Afterwords. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 18.2, 213-56.
65. Zaloom, C. (2003) Ambiguous numbers: trading technologies and interpretation in financial markets. American Ethnologist 30.2, 258-72.
66. Zaloom, C. (2004) The productive life of risk. Cultural Anthropology 19.3, 365-91.
67. Zaloom, C. (2005) The discipline of speculators. In A. Ong and S. Collier (eds.), Global assemblages, Blackwell, New York.