Interrogating the city: Comparing locally distinct crisis discourses
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in: Urban Studies, Jahrgang 54, Nr. 9, 01.07.2017, S. 2072–2086.
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T1 - Interrogating the city
T2 - Comparing locally distinct crisis discourses
AU - Barbehön, Marlon
AU - Münch, Sybille
N1 - Special issue: Interrogating urban crisis: Governance, contestation and critique
PY - 2017/7/1
Y1 - 2017/7/1
N2 - There is a long tradition of debate about the crisis of cities or the crisis of local government in public, political and scholarly circles. The diagnosis of ‘the urban crisis’ often implies a homogeneous phenomenon with each city facing similar and unambiguous problems. However, we know little about local practices in constructing a city’s crisis. Taking discourse analysis as a starting point, we propose an interpretive and comparative framework that investigates how ‘the urban crisis’ and ‘the city’ emerge interdependently with specific meanings in different socio-spatial contexts. By comparing the discourses of Frankfurt, Dortmund, Birmingham and Glasgow, we illustrate how in each city the meaning of crisis is constructed differently and how these constructions constitute the collective understanding of the particularities of these cities.
AB - There is a long tradition of debate about the crisis of cities or the crisis of local government in public, political and scholarly circles. The diagnosis of ‘the urban crisis’ often implies a homogeneous phenomenon with each city facing similar and unambiguous problems. However, we know little about local practices in constructing a city’s crisis. Taking discourse analysis as a starting point, we propose an interpretive and comparative framework that investigates how ‘the urban crisis’ and ‘the city’ emerge interdependently with specific meanings in different socio-spatial contexts. By comparing the discourses of Frankfurt, Dortmund, Birmingham and Glasgow, we illustrate how in each city the meaning of crisis is constructed differently and how these constructions constitute the collective understanding of the particularities of these cities.
KW - Politics
KW - Governance
KW - Character
KW - Story
KW - comparative urban research
KW - discourse analysis
KW - distinctiveness of cities
KW - interpretive research
KW - urban crisis
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85020855345&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0042098015613002
DO - 10.1177/0042098015613002
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 54
SP - 2072
EP - 2086
JO - Urban Studies
JF - Urban Studies
SN - 0042-0980
IS - 9
ER -