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Bae Gyoon Park
State rescaling is the subject of a continuously growing literature that provides valuableinsights into our current understandings of globalization, the spatiality of the capitaliststate and urban and regional development. There have been, however, growing concernsabout the wider applicability of this literature. Since the bulk of state rescaling studieshave focused on North American and European examples, the existing literature islimited in its conceptualization of the diverse and concrete ways in which the spatial andscalar restructuring of capitalist states takes place in different historical, political andsocial contexts beyond North America and Western Europe. This symposium providesthe literature with a valuable opportunity to transcend this limitation. The articles in thiscollection discuss the processes of state rescaling in non-Western countries such asJapan, Korea, Brazil and Turkey. By providing detailed explanations of state rescalingand the associated politico-economic processes in non-Western countries and regions,they not only show that state-rescaling literature is more widely applicable andmeaningful beyond Western politico-economic contexts, but also point out what ismissing in the existing corpus.
