Situating the "cultural reach" of cities in a multiscalar field.

Author(s)

Ayse Caglar

Abstract

On the basis of empirical material from a city bordering Syria and Turkey, this article aims to situate the city's emerging landscape of culture and arts in the 2000s within the dynamics of neoliberalizing city-making. It provides a political economy of the city's "cultural reach" by connecting the dynamics of cultural production to value creating processes in and through urban regeneration to understand when, how, and which groups and sites become de- and re-valorized. It highlights the futility of nation state-city, state-civil society binaries in analysing the power geometry of multiscalar actors involved in the work, efficacy and the potency of cultural networks, institutions, and "cultural diplomacy."

Organisation(s)

Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Journal

International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society

Volume

34

Pages

437-453

No. of pages

17

ISSN

0891-4486

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10767-020-09394-0

Publication date

2021

Peer reviewed

Yes

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

504017 Cultural anthropology, 504021 Migration research

Keywords

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

Portal url

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/8a75b94f-2b71-422f-8b30-42dd59cf86fd