Interrogating the city: Comparing locally distinct crisis discourses

Marlon Barbehön and Sybille Münch
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Marlon Barbehön: Heidelberg University, Germany
Sybille Münch: Leuphana University of Lueneburg, Germany

Urban Studies, 2017, vol. 54, issue 9, 2072-2086

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: comparative urban research; discourse analysis; distinctiveness of cities; interpretive research; urban crisis; åŸŽå¸‚æ¯”è¾ƒç ”ç©¶; è¯ è¯­åˆ†æž; 城市独特性; è¯ é‡Šæ€§ç ”ç©¶; åŸŽå¸‚å ±æœº (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098015613002

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