TITLE:
Opening up das Schloβ: Creating Room for Thinking by Combining the Territorial Cohesion Discourse and the Debate on the European Union Polity
AUTHORS:
B. M. Hissink Muller
KEYWORDS:
Territorial Cohesion, Polity, Expertise, Discourse
JOURNAL NAME:
Art and Design Review,
Vol.4 No.3,
August
18,
2016
ABSTRACT: To widen the debate about territorial cohesion, one can have a look at political science. We can
namely critique the territorial cohesion discourse’s exclusion of reasoning about the political by
showing the relevance of the simultaneous debate on the European Union polity. It thereby also
comes forward that the concept’s power practices illustrate the bureaucratic, multi-level, polycentric,
and network governance in flux that characterizes this polity. The territorial cohesion
discourse might then exemplify how this opaque organization of governing leads to and is made
possible by an associated form of expertise, which raises new questions on the role of social and
spatial science in our society.