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| RESCALING, DETERRITORIALIZATION AND RETERRITORIALIZATION: THE POLITICAL ECONOMIC ANALYSIS FOR CITY AND REGIONAL RESTRUCTURING |
| YIN Jie1, LUO Xiao-long2 |
1. Department of Urban Planning and Design, College of Landscape Architecture, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China;
2. Department of Urban Planning, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China |
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Abstract The theories of rescaling, deterritorialization and reterritorialization have provided a Marxist political economic perspective to analyze city and regional restructuring in the era of globalization. This article indicates that the understanding of the deterritorialization and reterritorialization should be closely integrated with the analysis of contemporary capitalist movement. In each round of capitalist expansion, capital has fixed itself on a series of scalar configurations, which provides a geographical infrastructure for the process of capital circulation. This process is called territorialization. With the increasingly fierce contradiction between production and consumption, the crisis is befalling. In order to overcome the crisis, the capital self-adjusts its mode of production through the "production of space". When it experiences self-adjustments, the capital has leaved the old territorial organizations and broken the original scalar construction. Capital will keep flowing globally until it has hunted for appropriate places for a new wave of capitalist growth. Capital fixed itself again in a new scalar construction through the "production of space", reactivating the circulation process and reviving from the crisis. A country's major city-regions' position in the world urban hierarchy, and their control in the global production network, will directly affect the country's economic development. To this end, the state begins to foster and produce more competitive city-regions in its territorial jurisdiction. This forced the state to adjust part of its power of intervening and regulating the national economy to other scales, such as supra-national levels and sub-national levels. This is state rescaling, with the behavior of shifting state power to multiple geographic scales, which is also called of reconfiguration of governance.
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Received: 22 October 2012
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2013, Vol. 28 
