| ID | 143643 |
| Title Proper | Restructuring locality |
| Other Title Information | practice, identity and place-making on the German-Polish border |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Sandberg, Marie |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Taking cities as analytical entry points for investigating practice, identity and place-making, this article explores the differential restructurings of locality in the twin cities of Görlitz and Zgorzelec on the German-Polish border. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, it shows how the local cities′ leaderships are attempting to wrestle the cities out of their downmarket positioning in the global economy. Deploying a performative research strategy of methodological relationalism, the article examines intersections between these cities′ strategies of situating local youth within urban regeneration and cross-border projects and local youth′s preferences for engaging in other kinds of place-making. By ‘seeing’ the cities in border regions through practices of place-making within the multiscalar processes of urban regeneration, new insights about ‘place’ are generated in which city branding is not the only kind of local restructuring to be acknowledged. |
| `In' analytical Note | Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Vol. 23, No.1; Feb 2016: p.66-83 |
| Journal Source | Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 2016-02 23, 1 |
| Key Words | Performativity ; Rescaling ; Place-Making ; Methodological Relationalism ; Practised Space ; German-Polish Border |