Spatial Entrepreneurs : : Actors and Practices of Space-Making Under the Global Condition / / ed. by Steffi Marung, Ursula Rao.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Balasubramanian, Srividya,; Döring, Katharina P. W.,
• HerausgeberIn: Marung, Steffi,; Rao, Ursula,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Dialectics of the Global , 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 197 p.)

As essential components of globalization, the study of practices and processes of space formation promotes a nuanced understanding of globalization. How do people create spaces for social action under the global condition, especially since the nineteenth century, when global interconnectedness incre...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• On the Series
• Contents
• 1 Between Empirical Messiness and Theoretical Ambition: Introducing Interdisciplinary Conversations on Actors and Practices of Space-Making Under the Global Condition
• 2 “Through Impenetrable Thicket and Swamps”: Negotiating US National Space in Popular Narratives about the Florida Frontier
• 3 National Forms with Economic Content? Gosplan’s Expertise on Territorializing the Soviet State, 1921–1930
• 4 Tracing Female Spatial Entrepreneurs: SWAPO Women’s Council, the Democratic Women’s Union, and Their Women’s Sewing Centre in Tsumeb, Namibia, 1990–1992
• 5 Routinizing Digital Banking: Kiosks as New Spaces of Social Action in Contemporary India
• 6 Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities Programme: Principles of the Art of Organizing Socioecological Transformation by Philanthropic Means
• 7 Understanding Complex, Collective Actors at African Regional Organizations: AU and ECOWAS Intervention in The Gambia
• 8 Scaled Regulatory Regimes under the Global Condition: An Example from Organ Transplantation
• List of Abbreviations
• List of Contributors
• Index