Governance: Part I

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Human Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 336-346

  Larner, Wendy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Authors, stressing on governance drawing together a very disparate set of disciplinary and theoretical debates; Focus of discussions "new urban politics" political elites engaging in courting private investors; Globalization and governance for geographers, state theorists and social scientists, governance being an attempt to make sense of changing nature of political authority in a globalizing, neoliberalizing world; Governance, re orientation for state theorists and political economic geographers; Government, governance and governmentality new multi scalar, multi actor forms of governance; Influence of empirical shift in politics and policy geographers, tracking reconstitution of spaces, processes, networks and mechanisms of power; New focus on self governance integral to governance, diverse forms of subject formation; Rise of term "governance" in political and academic lexicons, capturing apparent shift away from state centric, top down, monolithic forms of political power; Urban geographers, and their contributions to broader debates about governance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885543673     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444395839.ch23     Document Type: Chapter

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