Sydney/Global/City: An Exploration

Donald McNeill, Robyn Dowling and Bob Fagan

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2005, vol. 29, issue 4, 935-944

Abstract: Over the past decade, the urban condition of Sydney has been increasingly discussed using the language of globalization. Yet the increasing sensitivity of global city theorists to issues of representation alert us to the problems of confidently using the global as an adjective to describe two nouns (Sydney and city) of uncertain mooring. We review various uses of these signifiers by territorially embedded and embodied actors ( journalists, academics and politicians), and suggest that to unreflectively label either the whole or some parts of this metropolis ‘global’ is a deeply problematic process. Pendant ces dix dernières années, la situation urbaine de Sydney a été traitée de plus en plus souvent en termes de mondialisation. Toutefois, la sensibilité accrue des théoriciens de la ville planétaire aux aspects de représentation attire l’attention sur les problèmes liés à un usage fiable de planétaire comme adjectif descriptif de deux noms (Sydney et ville) présentant un ancrage incertain. En étudiant plusieurs usages de ces signifiants par des acteurs intégrés et définis au plan territorial ( journalistes, universitaires et politiciens), l’article suggère que qualifier sans réfléchir tout ou partie de cette métropole de ‘planétaire’ est un processus extrêmement problématique.

Date: 2005
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