Kristin Ljungkvist

The Global City 2.0 (eBook, ePUB)

From Strategic Site to Global Actor

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this book Kristin Ljungkvist claims that we can better understand why local governments find it to be in their Global City's interest to claim international political authority by exploring how the city's role in the globalized world is constructed and narrated locally.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317438694
• Artikelnr.: 43729742

Autorenporträt

Kristin Ljungkvist is a junior lecturer at the Department of Government and Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Uppsala University, Sweden. Her current research interests include global cities and urban politics, security governance, globalization, gender and International Relations, European security and Critical Infrastructure Protection.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Part 1 2. Global City Reflexivity and Actorization 3. An
Interdisciplinary understanding of the Global City as Actor in World
Politics 4. Global City Role Conceptions - A Theoretical Framework 5.
Methodological Considerations Part 2 6. Introducing the Case - New York
City as a Reflexive Global City 7. The New York City Role Conception in
Counterterrorism 8. The New York City Role Conception in Climate Change 9.
Conclusions and Contribution