ABSTRACT

In this article, I analyze the politics of urbanization and competitiveness-led state spatial transformations through political narratives. By analyzing empirical material, I search for ways of reasoning and rationalities that disclose the dynamics of the depoliticization and politicization of different spatial transformations of urbanization. Based on extensive interviews, I argue that a general understanding of urbanization as an external, global inevitability and as a force prevails among political elites. This key rationality and other sedimented knowledge duly opens up new political debates on the proper political management of urbanization and national adaptation. The order of reasoning is clear: the political elites argue that the perceived inevitability, common good and state of crisis necessitate national spatial transformations in order to secure the competitiveness of the state. As a result, new spatial hierarchies are forming as an adaptive strategy.

摘要

在本文中，我通过政治叙事分析了城市化的政治和竞争主导的国家空间转变。通过分析经验材料，我寻找推理和理性的方式，这些方式揭示了城市化不同空间转变的去政治化和政治化的动力。基于广泛的采访，我认为政治精英普遍普遍理解城市化是外部，全球性的必然性和力量。这种关键的理性和其他沉淀的知识适时地引发了有关适当的城市化和民族适应的政治管理的新政治辩论。推理的顺序很明确：政治精英争辩说，感知到的必然性，共同利益和危机状态需要进行国家空间转型，以确保国家竞争力。结果，新的空间层次结构正在形成为一种自适应策略。