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T1  - An analysis of ‘global closures’ and ‘national openings’ in the politics of urbanization 
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UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/326238 
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A1  - Soininvaara, Ilppo 
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Y1  - 2020 
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AB  - In this article, I analyze the politics of urbanization and competitiveness-led state spatial transformations through political narratives. By analyzing empirical material, I search for ways of reasoning and rationalities that disclose the dynamics of the depoliticization and politicization of different spatial transformations of urbanization. Based on extensive interviews, I argue that a general understanding of urbanization as an external, global inevitability and as a force prevails among pol... 
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KW  - 1171 Geosciences; CITY; CONSTRUCTION; DEPOLITICISATION; DEPOLITICIZATION; ECONOMY; GOVERNANCE; MACHINE; POLICY; SPACE; STATE; Urbanization; competitiveness; depoliticization; narratives; spatial restructuring 
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