Fractalidades en Investigación Crítica (FIC)

Hola todos,....

Yann y yo haremos un resumen del tema de governanza/gobernabilidad la próxima sesion de FIC 2/12/2009 a las 10:30.

Vamos a abrir la pregunta; Cómo pensar y investigar las formas de relaciones de poder atravese del tema de governanza.? Y despues enfocamos en nuestras investigaciones para formar un punto de partido por un debate con todos.

He puesto un resumen de las preguntas que tengo actualmente en mi trabajo.

Nos vemos pronto,

Matthew 

Spatializing power relations in terms of governance and government

My interest is how to theorize power relations in terms of ‘spatial’ governance in contemporary terms and then how we can use ‘spatialization’ as a research tool in the analysis of political dialogue and more formal political discourse.

One of the reoccurring motifs in what follows is just how little, actually, space is thought about explicitly. None the less, the persistent associations leave a residue of effects. We develop ways of incorporating a spatiality in our ways of being in the world, modes of coping with the challenge that the enormous reality of space throws up. Produced through and embedded in practices, from quotidian negotiations to global strategizing, these implicit engagements of space feed back into and sustain wider understandings of the world. The trajectories of others can be immobilized while we proceed with our own; the real challenge of the contemporanity of others can be deflected by their relegation to a past (backward, old-fashioned, archaic); the defensive enclosures of an essentialised place seem to enable a wider disengagement, and to provide a secure foundation. (Massey, 2005.pp. 7-8).

Three areas of interest:

I. How we theorize the contemporary system(s) of power relations that are operating in terms of:

a. How power relations are spatial processes of social relations and more particularly ‘governance’ in terms of space, time, and place?

b. Locating power relations and urban politics within both the material and epistemological geo-histories of colonial/capitalism?

II. Governments produce discourses which outline and legitimize formal procedures and forms of regulations in terms of laws and policies. These more formal productions can be examined in relations to how they work within particular forms of what Foucault and others (Rose, etc) have termed ‘governance’.

This concept of governance can be applied to how formal discourses are produced and productive within certain types of spatial ‘imaginaries’ and can be contrasted with the ‘realities’ of how urban spaces and power relations actually occur. This juxa-positioning can potentially open up debates as to the manner in which urban power relations are regulated, circulated and resisted.

a. In terms of spatial politics (space, time, and place), how does considering the relation between formal political discourses and actual spatial urban politics provide broader terms for debate and potentially advantageous vantage points for resistance and access to collective ‘space’ making?

Sesión: Gubernamentalidad, governance. (Presentación del capítulo)

Responsables: Matthew y Yann