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By James DeFilippis

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ISBN-13: 9780203499917

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Arguing opposed to those that say that our groups are powerless within the face of footloose businesses, DeFilippis considers what localities can do within the face of heightened capital mobility for you to keep an autonomy that furthers egalitarian social justice, and explores how we cross approximately attaining this in useful, political phrases.

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First, it means that we need to understand autonomy as a form of power and that autonomy is therefore a relational construct. Autonomy is not a thing but a process and a set of complexrelationships. For local-scale actors to be autonomous, they must therefore transform the relations they are embedded in to allow themselves greater control over those relationships. Second, autonomy might be relational, but that does not make it amorphous, unidentifiable, or placeless. And autonomy might not exist in itself, but it does find expression in the institutions that lie at the focal points of a locality’s relations.

Second, autonomy might be relational, but that does not make it amorphous, unidentifiable, or placeless. And autonomy might not exist in itself, but it does find expression in the institutions that lie at the focal points of a locality’s relations. When Lake (1994) defines local autonomy as, “the capacity of localities to control the social construction of place,” he is really talking about the ability of local-scale actors to control the institutions that connect them to the rest of the world.

That is why they need to be recast and reconceptualized. First, a locality is not a thing that exists a priori—that is, prior to, and independent of, human experience—as the NUP seems to assume. Localities are, conversely, continuously being constructed and reconstructed, both by their relationships with the rest of the world, and by the struggles that take place within them. Also, the NUP seems to accept “the local” as the scale of the local state. Accordingly, its theorists have assumed away questions of what constitutes and produces the local.

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