A SUMMARYAND REVIEW OF THE FRAMEWORK OF NEW STATE SPACE

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HUMAN GEOGRAPHY ›› 2017, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (3) : 1-9. DOI: 10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2017.03.001

A SUMMARYAND REVIEW OF THE FRAMEWORK OF NEW STATE SPACE

MAXue-guang, LI Lu-qi

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New state space is a theoretical framework developed by Neil Brenner, which serves as a systematic account for state spatial restructuring that has been increasingly evident since late 1970s. This framework is different from previous theories concerning the state in social sciences, especially in political science, which view the state space as a pre-given, fixed container and thus being trapped within state-centrism. Moreover, this theory is different from some strands on globalization research in human geography and political economy since 1970s, for some of them tend to remain "spatial fetishist" and "methodological territorialist" while emphasizing the importance of global scale instead of national scale, and some others tend to emphasize the declining, eroding or disappearing of state territoriality. Rather, the new state space approach develops a "processing"idea on state space, i.e., to view state space as a presupposition, an arena, and an outcome of continually evolving social relations, rather than a pre-given container. Specifically, the main points of new state space approach can be summarized as follows. 1) The state space is constructed by social processes including capital accumulation, state regulation, class struggle etc. Since this social constructed state space is polymorphic, two intertwined dimensions of state spatiality can be distinguished as state space in the narrow sense and state space in the integral sense. 2) The process of state spatial restructuring is driven by a variety of sociospatial dynamics, especially structural changes such as the globalization of capital flows, the crisis of Keynesianism and the rise of neoliberalism. 3) The process of state spatial restructuring can be regulated by state using the state spatial selectivity, which refers to the processes of spatial privileging and articulation through which state policies are differentiated across territorial space in order to target particular geographical zones and scales.

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new state space / rescaling / spatial selectivity / globalization

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MAXue-guang, LI Lu-qi. A SUMMARYAND REVIEW OF THE FRAMEWORK OF NEW STATE SPACE[J]. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2017, 32(3): 1-9 https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2017.03.001

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