ABSTRACT
The networked stories of both C40 and strategic urban planning exhort us to ‘see like a city’ if we want to appreciate the complexity of the overall assemblage of global governance: this, as Warren Magnusson (2011: 2) pointed out, implies an ontological shift from the simplistic hierarchical order of the state to a understanding of politics that sees it ‘in terms of complex practices of government’ which ‘always involve multiple authorities in different registers’. This relational understanding begs for a progressive take on the geography of global governance and, very much like Doreen Massey's ‘global sense of place’ illustrated in Chapter 3, requires a toleration of the complexity of the global scenario and a comprehension of the necessary interconnection between the objects of our international political studies and people, places and connections often far beyond them. This equates to developing a ‘global sense’ of politics as spatial processes that are continuously being recast at, and linked across, multiple levels.
