Neil Brenner，NYU社會系教授，是我很喜歡的社會學家。原因是他的研究把「空間」、「城市」及「國家理論」做了很好的結合，這讓我在研究過程中得到很多啟發（推薦："Urban governance and the production of new state spaces in western Europe, 1960-2000," Review of International Political Economy, 11:3, August (2004): 447-488。PDF）。他自述他的研究興趣如下：
my work has developed an explicitly spatialized, scale-attuned analysis of modern statehood. In this conception—which is elaborated most systematically in Ch. 3 of my book, New State Spaces—state spaces are viewed as the presuppositions, arenas and outcomes of historically specific political strategies.不過，剛剛看到他的學歷：
State space is thus not a fixed platform or container for political life, but a constitutive dimension of regulatory processes that is continually transformed through ongoing sociopolitical experimentation and contestation.
Ph.D. 1999 (Political Science), University of Chicago; M.A. 1996 (Geography), University of California (Los Angeles); M.A. 1993 (Political Science), University of Chicago; B.A. 1991 (Philosophy), Yale University.嗯，三年就拿到博士學位？啊。。。
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