Twin Cities: Territorial and Relational Geographies of ‘Worldly’ Manchester
本文梳理了城市结为姐妹城市的制度背景与内容，并通过英国曼彻斯特的民族志研究，揭示结为姐妹城市如何通过合作与竞争的网络构成，对理解地域与关系城市政治有理论和方法贡献。
This paper contributes to recent interest in city twinning by urban theorists. It begins with a review of writing from across the social sciences which describes the institutional context and content of twinning programmes, as well as work which theorises how care and hospitality are key elements of twinning practices. Ethnographic research is then presented from the City of Manchester (UK) in order to consider the ways in which twinning is constituted through circuits, networks and webs of co-operation and competition involved in the transfer of policy and knowledge which can be strategic, uneven and at times ambivalent. In doing so, it is argued that the conflicts, tensions and contradictions bound up with twinning have much to offer theoretical and empirical understanding of territorial and relational urban politics. The paper concludes with theoretical, methodological and policy relevant insights.