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Territory, Scale, and Why Capitalism Matters
A number of recent contributions have been critical of those theorizations of scale and territory that emerged in the last two decades. They have argued, variably, that a de-centered world of flows and networks, whether a recent phenomenon or something that is in the nature of space relations, trump...
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Published in: | Territory, politics, governance politics, governance, 2013-05, Vol.1 (1), p.46-61 |
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Summary: | A number of recent contributions have been critical of those theorizations of scale and territory that emerged in the last two decades. They have argued, variably, that a de-centered world of flows and networks, whether a recent phenomenon or something that is in the nature of space relations, trumps the assumptions of verticality, centricity and fixity that are, in their view, central to those theorizations. They define their view of space as relational in contrast to what they believe to be the non-relational view embedded in concepts of scale and territory. These critiques have been met, in turn, by a number of ripostes which argue, essentially, that there is no contradiction between relational views of space and the concepts of scale and territory. In both the critiques and the rebuttals, though, there is a curious refusal to seriously engage with concrete social relations; relations that make scale and territory and pace the rebuttals, necessary features of spatial organization rather than contingent ones.
Extracto En publicaciones recientes se han expresado opiniones críticas sobre las teorizaciones de escala y territorio que han surgido en los dos últimos decenios. Se ha argumentado, de forma variable, que un mundo descentrado de flujos y redes, ya sea un fenómeno reciente o algo que forma parte de la naturaleza de las relaciones espaciales, prevalece sobre las suposiciones de verticalidad, centricidad y fijación que son, según su opinión, fundamentales para estas teorizaciones. Definen sus perspectivas del espacio como algo relacional en comparación con lo que consideran que es la visión no relacional arraigada en conceptos de escala y territorio. A su vez, estas críticas han recibido varias réplicas en las que se sostiene que básicamente no existe ninguna contradicción entre las perspectivas relacionales del espacio y los conceptos de escala y territorio. Sin embargo, tanto en las críticas como en las refutaciones existe un curioso rechazo a participar seriamente en relaciones sociales concretas; relaciones que, pese a las refutaciones, convierten la escala y el territorio en características no contingentes sino necesarias de la organización espacial.
摘要 过去二十多年来所发展的尺度与领域之理论,在近日受到诸多批判。这些批判不一而足地主张,涵括流动和网络的去中心化世界,不论是晚近的现象抑或是空间关係的本质, 皆取代了垂直性、集中性与固着性等假设,而这些假设皆被认定为其所批判的理论核心。相对于他们所认为的根据尺度和领域概念的非关係性视角而言,他们对空间概念的定义是关係性的。然而此类批判却遭到诸多反驳,主张空间的关係性视角,和尺度与领域的概念并无冲突。但不论是批判或反驳的论点,皆不愿认真涉入实质的社会关係,这些社会关係形塑了尺度与领域,并为反驳的主张定调,而此皆为空间组织的必要特性,而非偶然的关係。
关键词:网络;政治;权力;领域;能动性;固着性 |
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ISSN: | 2162-2671 2162-268X |
DOI: | 10.1080/21622671.2013.763734 |