Urban Colloquy on Regime Politics podcasts now available!

Two podcasts have been recorded to showcase and elaborate on the Urban Colloquy published in UAR in January 2015. The podcasts feature Dr. Peter Burns, Dr. Clarence N. Stone, Dr. Michael Jones-Correa, Diane Wong, Dr. Joel Rast. and Dr. Katherine B. Hankins.

The podcasts may be listened to here.

Urban Colloquy on Clarence N. Stone’s Regime Politics, Part I

This is the first of a two-part series moderated by Peter Burns, Editor of Urban Affairs Review, on the Urban Colloquy of Vol. 51, Issue 1 (January 2015): "Clarence N. Stone’s Regime Politics." Burns invites Clarence N. Stone to reflect on his recent article, “Reflections on Regime Politics: From Governing Coalition to Urban Political Order.” Michael Jones-Correa and Diane Wong contribute to the discussion with their article titled “Whose Politics? Reflections on Clarence Stone’s Regime Politics.”  

Urban Colloquy on Clarence N. Stone’s Regime Politics, Part II

This is Part II of the Urban Affairs Review Urban Colloquy: "Clarence N. Stone’s Regime Politics" (Vol. 51, Issue 1, January 2015). Peter Burns, Editor of UAR, invites Joel Rast, author of “Urban Regime Theory and the Problem of Change,” and Katherine B. Hankins, author of “Regime Politics in Geography,” to the discussion.

From our January 2015 issue: Regime Politics in Geography

1. Katherine B. Hankins1

1. ¹Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA

1. Katherine B. Hankins, Department of Geosciences, Georgia State University, P.O. Box 3965, Atlanta, GA 30302, USA. Email: khankins@gsu.edu

Abstract

At the current conjuncture of neoliberal urbanism, when more than 20 years have passed since scholars identified the retrenchment of the federal state from urban affairs and the shift from urban government to urban governance, those of us engaged in questions of urban politics have much yet to learn about the power relations in American cities. At the same time, we must recognize those key concepts and frameworks that have shaped our ability to understand both the processes involved in urban politics and the expressions of those processes, as they are manifest in concrete places and often, literally, in places made of concrete. The urban regime, as explained by Clarence Stone a quarter century ago in Regime Politics, is one such concept, as illustrated in a very compelling empirical investigation, that has shaped the lexicon of how we understand cities. Stone’s contribution came along at a time when geographers were grappling with understanding the local and the global and their relationship to capitalism. Geographers engaged regime theory in fits and starts with other conceptual innovations in the field, including the regulation approach, flat ontologies, and relational sense of place. If we apply these three conceptual innovations to the regime approach, as I argue we should, then we get a much more robust conceptual tool to understand the contemporary urban political landscape.

• regime politics
 
• geography
 
• regulation theory
 
• Atlanta
• • http://uar.sagepub.com/content/51/1/150.abstract