Assemblages of State Power: Topological Shifts in the Organization of Government and Politics
Assemblages of State Power: Topological Shifts in the Organization of Government and Politics
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国家权力的集合：政府组织和政治的拓扑转变
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2010
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A. Cochrane
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John Allen;A. Cochrane
多尺度或多地点的权力关系提供了理解国家权力地理变化的两种截然不同的方式。在本文中，我们认为一个不同的出发点，一个更传统的地形帐户有利于国家的空间性的拓扑理解。与国家权力地理的纵向或横向图像相比，我们认为，国家拥有的是范围，而不是高度。在此过程中，我们借鉴了萨森（2006年，领土，权威，权利：从中世纪到全球集会，普林斯顿大学出版社）一个词汇能够描绘权力的重新谈判，发生在英国中央政府和其主要城市地区之一，英格兰东南部之间;一个突出的政治行为者，一些公共的，一些私人的，在那里谈判发生在中央和地方行为者之间的元素'住宿'在该地区，而不是'上面'，在这种背景下，政治诉求的表达与“跳跃式”或将广泛的网络联系正规化关系不大，而与直接进入“集中化”政治的能力关系更大，在这种政治中，接近和接触以特定的方式相互作用。
Multi-scalar or multi-site power relations offer two contrasting ways of understanding the shifting geography of state power. In this paper, we argue for a different starting point, one that favours a topological understanding of state spatiality over more conventional topographical accounts. In contrast to a vertical or horizontal imagery of the geography of state power, what states possess, we suggest, is reach, not height. In doing so, we draw from Sassen (2006, Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages, Princeton University Press) a vocabulary capable of portraying the renegotiation of powers that has taken place between central government in the UK and one of its key city regions, the South East of England; one that highlights an assemblage of political actors, some public, some private, where negotiations take place between elements of central and local actors 'lodged' within the region, not acting 'above', 'below' or 'alongside' it. The articulation of political demands in such a context has less to do with 'jumping scale' or formalizing extensive network connections and more to do with the ability to reach directly into a 'centralized' politics where proximity and reach play across one another in particular ways.