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来源

URBAN STUDIES,Vol.54,Issue9SI,P.2072-2086

语言

英文

关键字

comparative urban research; discourse analysis; distinctiveness of cities; interpretive research; urban crisis; GOVERNANCE; CHARACTER; STORIES

作者单位

[Barbehoen, Marlon] Heidelberg Univ, Heidelberg, Germany. [Muench, Sybille] Leuphana Univ Lueneburg, Luneburg, Germany. Barbehon, M (reprint author), Heidelberg Univ, Inst Polit Sci, Bergheimer Str 58, D-69115 Heidelberg, Germany. E-Mail: marlon.barbehoen@ipw.uni-heidelberg.de

摘要

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.