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
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Identities - Global Studies in Culture and Power |
| Volume | Volume 23 |
| Issue number | issue 1 |
| Pages (from-to) | pages 66-83 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| ISSN | 1070-289X |
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| Publication status | Published - 15 Mar 2016 |
Keywords
- Faculty of Humanities
- Poland
- Germany
- Identity