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https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-29319| Publication type: | Article in scientific journal |
| Type of review: | Peer review (publication) |
| Title: | Seeing democracy like a city |
| Authors: | Beveridge, Ross Koch, Philippe |
| et. al: | No |
| DOI: | 10.1177/27541258231203999 10.21256/zhaw-29319 |
| Published in: | Dialogues in Urban Research |
| Issue Date: | 23-Nov-2023 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Sage |
| ISSN: | 2754-1258 |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Urban Politics; Democracy; Participation; Governance; Political Theory |
| Subject (DDC): | 307: Communities 711: Area planning |
| Abstract: | Urbanisation is changing landscapes, social relations and everyday lives across the globe. But urbanisation is also changing the ways democracy is understood and practiced. Nevertheless, the relation between urbanisation and democracy remains conceptually and empirically underdeveloped. Our aim in this paper is to provide a novel way of thinking about this relationship that addresses two limitations in current debates. First, there is the dominant view that just as urbanisation dissolves the actual, material city it also dissolves the city as a democratic project. We challenge this understanding, arguing that across the globe claims for and forms of urban collective self-rule signal that the city retains democratic significance in a very specific sense: as an object of practice and thought the city is a source and stake of the urban demos. Second, there is a tendency to either restrict the question of democracy to state-centred forms of political action or to place democracy completely outside the realm of the state. We argue however that urbanisation unsettles seemingly fixed boundaries between the state and society and thus opens the possibility of weaving together a new democratic fabric encompassing both. In addressing these two strands of debate together, we outline a democratic politics of urbanisation that shifts perspectives from institutions to practices, from jurisdictional scales to spaces of collective urban life. Seeing democracy like a city, we argue, foregrounds a way to reimagine and to re-locate democracy in the everyday lives of urbanites. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/29319 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | CC BY-NC 4.0: Attribution - Non commercial 4.0 International |
| Departement: | Architecture, Design and Civil Engineering |
| Organisational Unit: | Institute of Urban Landscape (IUL) |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen Architektur, Gestaltung und Bauingenieurwesen |
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Beveridge, R., & Koch, P. (2023). Seeing democracy like a city. Dialogues in Urban Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/27541258231203999
Beveridge, R. and Koch, P. (2023) ‘Seeing democracy like a city’, Dialogues in Urban Research [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/27541258231203999.
R. Beveridge and P. Koch, “Seeing democracy like a city,” Dialogues in Urban Research, Nov. 2023, doi: 10.1177/27541258231203999.
BEVERIDGE, Ross und Philippe KOCH, 2023. Seeing democracy like a city. Dialogues in Urban Research. 23 November 2023. DOI 10.1177/27541258231203999
Beveridge, Ross, and Philippe Koch. 2023. “Seeing Democracy like a City.” Dialogues in Urban Research, November. https://doi.org/10.1177/27541258231203999.
Beveridge, Ross, and Philippe Koch. “Seeing Democracy like a City.” Dialogues in Urban Research, Nov. 2023, https://doi.org/10.1177/27541258231203999.
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