Abstract
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.
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 |
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Country/Territory | Iceland |
City | Reykjavik |
Period | 11/06/13 → 14/06/13 |
Keywords
- anticipatory knowledge
- spatial governance
- vitality
- capacity
- economic variation
- neoliberalism
- state
- Finland