Urban Problem Discourses: Understanding the distinctiveness of cities
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Urban Problem Discourses : Understanding the distinctiveness of cities. / Barbehön, Marlon; Münch, Sybille; Gehring, Petra et al.
In: Journal of Urban Affairs, Vol. 38, No. 2, 01.05.2016, p. 236–251.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Urban Problem Discourses
T2 - Understanding the distinctiveness of cities
AU - Barbehön, Marlon
AU - Münch, Sybille
AU - Gehring, Petra
AU - Grossmann, Andreas
AU - Haus, Michael
AU - Heinelt, Hubert
PY - 2016/5/1
Y1 - 2016/5/1
N2 - Despite the insistence in interpretive policy analysis that the discursive construction of problems must be understood in terms of their historical and spatial context, it remains an open question how cities provide such a context. We argue that cities as a distinct form of sociation enable certain (discursive) actions, while restricting others. Taking both the interest of interpretive policy analysis in the social construction of political reality and holistic concepts of approaching the distinctiveness of cities as starting points, we scrutinize how the cities of Frankfurt/Main, Dortmund, Birmingham, and Glasgow provide distinct contexts for the construction of local policy problems. Based on an inquiry into urban discourses we ask, first, how problematizations involve locally specific attributions of problem causes and responsibilities for problem solving and, second, how this is related to a locally distinct understanding of the city's past, present, and future.
AB - Despite the insistence in interpretive policy analysis that the discursive construction of problems must be understood in terms of their historical and spatial context, it remains an open question how cities provide such a context. We argue that cities as a distinct form of sociation enable certain (discursive) actions, while restricting others. Taking both the interest of interpretive policy analysis in the social construction of political reality and holistic concepts of approaching the distinctiveness of cities as starting points, we scrutinize how the cities of Frankfurt/Main, Dortmund, Birmingham, and Glasgow provide distinct contexts for the construction of local policy problems. Based on an inquiry into urban discourses we ask, first, how problematizations involve locally specific attributions of problem causes and responsibilities for problem solving and, second, how this is related to a locally distinct understanding of the city's past, present, and future.
KW - Politics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84927934026&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/juaf.12206
DO - 10.1111/juaf.12206
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 38
SP - 236
EP - 251
JO - Journal of Urban Affairs
JF - Journal of Urban Affairs
SN - 0735-2166
IS - 2
ER -