Abstract
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
| Originalsprog | Engelsk |
|---|---|
| Tidsskrift | Identities - Global Studies in Culture and Power |
| Vol/bind | Volume 23 |
| Udgave nummer | issue 1 |
| Sider (fra-til) | pages 66-83 |
| Antal sider | 16 |
| ISSN | 1070-289X |
| DOI | |
| Status | Udgivet - 15 mar. 2016 |
Emneord
- Det Humanistiske Fakultet
- performativity, methodological relationalism, practised space, place-making, rescaling, German-Polish border