Theorising International Urban Politics
| Author | Ari Jerrems |
| Published date | 01 September 2020 |
| Date | 01 September 2020 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/0305829820971681 |
| Subject Matter | Review Article |
https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829820971681
Millennium: Journal of
International Studies
2020, Vol. 49(1) 105 –116
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Theorising International
Urban Politics
Ari Jerrems
Monash University, Australia
Jonathan Darling and Harald Bauder, eds., Sanctuary Cities and Urban Struggles: Rescaling
Migration, Citizenship and Rights (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019).
Mary Kaldor and Saskia Sassen, Cities at War: Global Insecurity and Urban Resistance (New York:
Columbia University Press, 2020).
Neil Brenner, New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question (New York: Oxford
University Press, 2019).
Sara Fregonese, War and the City: Urban Geopolitics in Lebanon (London: I.B. Tauris, 2019)
Simon Curtis, Global Cities and Global Order (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016)
Abstract
Research across several disciplines has focused on the intersection between the international
and the urban to shed light on transformations in global politics. Recently, this intersection
has become the focus of critical International Relations scholars. Despite transversal interest,
disciplinary boundaries often limit the scope of academic debate. In the interest of developing
a transdisciplinary research agenda, this review article charts three different ways that scholars
have theorised the relationship between the international, the urban, and the political across
disciplines. A review of five recently published books, situated within a broader study of the
literature, serves to do this.
Keywords
urban, cities, urbanisation
Corresponding author:
Ari Jerrems, School of Social Sciences, Monash University, Menzies Building 20 Chancellors Walk,
Melbourne, VIC 3800, Australia.
Email: arijerrems@gmail.com
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