Abstract
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - 2013 |
| MoE publication type | Not Eligible |
| Event | 5th Nordic Geographers' Meeting NGM 2013 - Reykjavik, Iceland Duration: 11 Jun 2013 → 14 Jun 2013 |
Conference
| Conference | 5th Nordic Geographers' Meeting NGM 2013 |
|---|---|
| Country | Iceland |
| City | Reykjavik |
| Period | 11/06/13 → 14/06/13 |
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Keywords
- anticipatory knowledge
- spatial governance
- vitality
- capacity
- economic variation
- neoliberalism
- state
- Finland
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Anticipatory knowledge and spatial governance of vitality. / Ahlqvist, Toni.
2013. Abstract from 5th Nordic Geographers' Meeting NGM 2013, Reykjavik, Iceland.Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference Abstract › Scientific
TY - CONF
T1 - Anticipatory knowledge and spatial governance of vitality
AU - Ahlqvist, Toni
N1 - Project code: 81997
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The neo-liberal spatial governance is increasingly built on anticipatory knowledge. Anticipatory knowledge is based on practices of strategic expectation that cross-cut different spatial scales. These practices position 'local realities' against invariably emerging 'global potentials', and construct a constantly renewing 'landscape of unfulfilled prospects'. The spatial governance also presumes novel subjective capacities. The subjects are increasingly expected to be strategically oriented and risk-seeking; not merely Foucauldian 'enterprise selves' but sorts of 'super-entrepreneurial' experimental beings who constantly dance to the pulse of emerging (economic) opportunities. However, the anticipatory knowledge poses an acute dilemma, for example, for the governance of state space: the state governance should simultaneously emphasise enclosure of strategic foci and opening in front of global potentials. Thus, the dilemma results in continuous governance experiments. In the paper I discuss one such experiment in the context of Nordic state, namely the governance of state space through the notion of 'vitality' in Finland. I argue that the state vitality is a practice that links the state, the territory, the people and the citizen in a new way. In the context of state, vitality represents a search for maximum potential for economic variation in an economy that is perceived systemic and complex, indeed 'the life itself'. In the paper, I make a brief genealogy of the key ideas of related to state vitality in Finland.
AB - The neo-liberal spatial governance is increasingly built on anticipatory knowledge. Anticipatory knowledge is based on practices of strategic expectation that cross-cut different spatial scales. These practices position 'local realities' against invariably emerging 'global potentials', and construct a constantly renewing 'landscape of unfulfilled prospects'. The spatial governance also presumes novel subjective capacities. The subjects are increasingly expected to be strategically oriented and risk-seeking; not merely Foucauldian 'enterprise selves' but sorts of 'super-entrepreneurial' experimental beings who constantly dance to the pulse of emerging (economic) opportunities. However, the anticipatory knowledge poses an acute dilemma, for example, for the governance of state space: the state governance should simultaneously emphasise enclosure of strategic foci and opening in front of global potentials. Thus, the dilemma results in continuous governance experiments. In the paper I discuss one such experiment in the context of Nordic state, namely the governance of state space through the notion of 'vitality' in Finland. I argue that the state vitality is a practice that links the state, the territory, the people and the citizen in a new way. In the context of state, vitality represents a search for maximum potential for economic variation in an economy that is perceived systemic and complex, indeed 'the life itself'. In the paper, I make a brief genealogy of the key ideas of related to state vitality in Finland.
KW - anticipatory knowledge
KW - spatial governance
KW - vitality
KW - capacity
KW - economic variation
KW - neoliberalism
KW - state
KW - Finland
UR - http://conference.hi.is/ngm2013/abstract-tony-ahlqvist/
M3 - Conference Abstract
ER -