Integration and Control: The Governing of Urban Marginality in Western Europe

Justus Uitermark

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2014, vol. 38, issue 4, 1418-1436

Abstract: Drawing on the figurational sociology of Norbert Elias and the Foucauldian governmentality approach, this article outlines the political rationalities and governmental technologies pertaining to the territorial governance of urban marginality in Western Europe. Whereas many authors have suggested that segregation is key to the governing of urban marginality in the USA and perhaps the post-industrial city generally, I suggest that, at least in Western Europe, marginality is governed through integration. The argument is illustrated with examples from the UK, the Netherlands and Belgium.

Date: 2014
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