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.

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城市化政治中的“全球封闭”和“国家开放”分析

摘要 在本文中，我通过政治叙事分析了城市化的政治和以竞争力为主导的国家空间转型。通过分析经验材料，我寻找揭示城市化不同空间转型的去政治化和政治化动态的推理方法和合理性。基于广泛的采访，我认为将城市化作为一种​​外部的、全球的必然性和一种力量的普遍理解在政治精英中盛行。这一关键理性和其他沉淀的知识适时地开启了关于城市化和国家适应的适当政治管理的新政治辩论。推理的顺序很清楚：政治精英认为，感知到的必然性，共同利益和危机状态需要国家空间转型，以确保国家的竞争力。因此，作为一种适应性策略，新的空间层次正在形成。