MacKinnon, D. (2011) Reconstructing scale: towards a new scalar politics. Progress in Human Geography, 35(1), pp. 21-36. (doi: 10.1177/0309132510367841)
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Abstract
In recent years, the dominant political-economic approach to scale has been subject to critique from poststructuralist perspectives. In this paper, I argue that the charge of ‘reification’ has been accepted too readily, masking areas of conceptual overlap between political-economic and poststructural approaches, particularly in terms of their shared concern with the construction of scale. On this basis, I propose to replace the established concept of ‘the politics of scale’ with ‘scalar politics’, arguing that it is often not scale per se that is the prime object of contention, but rather specific processes and institutionalized practices that are themselves differentially scaled.
| Item Type: | Articles |
|---|---|
| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | MacKinnon, Dr Daniel |
| Authors: | MacKinnon, D. |
| College/School: | College of Science and Engineering > School of Geographical and Earth Sciences |
| Journal Name: | Progress in Human Geography |
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
| ISSN: | 0309-1325 |
| ISSN (Online): | 1477-0288 |
| Published Online: | 12 July 2010 |
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