Governmentalities of Urban Crises in Inner‐city Athens, Greece

Koutrolikou, Penny

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“…Legal aspects and ethical/moral representations further intensify such divisions. In this way, we have a differentiation, a de-familiarisation and an enemy-formation tactic, dividing the citizenry between 'us and them' [...], between 'good' citizens and their interests and 'uncivil or threatening others'" [17] (pp. 175, 176).…”

Section: Rebel Citiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This may have a significant impact on limiting the urban spaces of democracy (see also, [45]). In another example, in the case of Athens, Koutrolikou has documented how a politics of fear as "a spatial manifestation of urban crisis" (constructed as a state of emergency) may evolve into a moral panic which can feature a new construction of the public and "its enemies" and can be used impose a new definition of (il)legality [17] (pp. 174, 175).…”

Section: Urban Constraintsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Benjamin Barber argues that cities should be empowered "to secure human sustainability, especially when nations fail to do so" [2] (p. 7). In If Mayors Ruled the World, Barber emphasized that "politics cannot be found in (or rescued from) increasingly dysfunctional nation-states or rigidly ideological national parties" (cited [2] (p. 10); "[t]he crisis in national governance is a crisis in sovereignty, in the capacity of the nation-state to make good on the terms of social contract on which their founding legitimacy turns" [2] (p. 17).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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City Sovereignty: Urban Resistance and Rebel Cities Reconsidered

Cordes

2017

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The article argues for an increase in de facto already claimed city sovereignty. It situates the discussion, first in the historical context of city-state relationships, and second, in the current urban crises in the United States tied to the sanctuary city movement, then examines legal grounds for devolution of power to cities, before discussing the legal concepts of "urban commons" and "city power", finally outlining constraints facing increasingly sovereign cities. The article argues that current legal literature on "urban commons" and "city power" needs a stronger normative lens and better conceptualization of urban inequality, redistribution, and publicness. Moreover, if cities are to assume greater capacity to govern and to ensure life, liberty, and the sustainability of their populations, they have to overcome serious constraints in the four domains outlined in the article: (1) surveillance and control of urban space, (2) privatization of public space, (3) the rise of the luxury city, large-scale developments, megaprojects, and (4) homelessness. of 23 military, taxation, redistribution, infrastructure or public services, international relations, trade and migration policies, they are nevertheless showing signs of leadership in the arenas of land use and development, minimum wage, regional tax sharing, sustainable development planning and climate change, and, especially, as will be emphasized in this article, in the case of sanctuary practices in the area of immigrant inclusion. Sanctuary cities in the United States can be defined as places where a local government or police department have passed a resolution, a city ordinance, an executive order, or a departmental policy expressly forbidding city or law enforcement officials from inquiring into immigration status and/or cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agency.The article situates the discussion, first in the historical context of city-state relationships, and second, in the current urban crises in the United States tied to the sanctuary city movement, then examines legal grounds for devolution of power to cities, before discussing the legal concepts of "urban commons" [5,6] (see also [7]) and "city power" [8], finally outlining constraints facing increasingly sovereign cities. While mayors may not "rule the world", as Barber's forceful argument would have it, this article argues instead that cities are not utilizing the powers that they increasingly do possess to sufficiently and substantively address urban inequalities and to expand urban citizenship into a fundamentally inclusive category. Barber is arguing that expanded city sovereignty ought to be a normative goal given the crises of the nation state, while this article argues that the noted normative goal should be approached with caution given the persistence of urban inequalities. The current context of the state hostile to redistributive urban policies, however, opens up a social and political space for a special emphasis on urban sov...

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Cordes

2017

Urban Science

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“…To be more precise, one could argue that in the past few years Athens has been facing multiple 'crises' that altogether condense into a 'conjunctural urban crisis' (Hall and Massey 2010;Koutrolikou, forthcoming). The adverse consequences of the financial crisis have been well documented (both locally and internationally) with increased rates of poverty, unemployment, homelessness and suicides, increased shop closures and fall in house and rental prices along with a large-scale dismantling of welfare services.…”

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Socio-spatial stigmatization and its ‘incorporation’ in the centre of Athens, Greece

Koutrolikou¹

2015

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City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: Penny (Panagiota) KoutrolikouConsidering stigmatization as a process ingrained into power relations, difference and contexts, this paper focuses on how socio-spatial stigmatization is deployed by specific social actors within a broader context of multiple stigmatization of social groups in the city of Athens, Greece. As such, it discusses imposed stigmatization, whereby stigma is attributed to a group and/or a place by external (to the group) actors and further explores what can be termed as 'incorporated' stigmatization whereby socio-spatial stigma becomes the central feature around which a group is formed and/or mobilized. Furthermore, in both cases, it explores the consequences of stigmatization, while raising further questions about (de)legitimization.

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“…The austerity policies implemented in the wake of the 2007 financial crisis have resulted not only in political and institutional disaffection but also in a social and cultural crisis that has affected a high percentage of citizens. From the closing of companies and high unemployment rates (especially among young people) and eviction processes, the budget cutbacks (especially in personnel and basic services [1,2] and the privatization or externalization by subcontracting of some of them) have led to a notable worsening in citizens' living conditions [3][4][5]. The result has been an increase in the dynamics of social exclusion that have deteriorated the social cohesion of cities, leaving families and individuals in precarious conditions and in situations of vulnerability.…”

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Citizen Action as a Driving Force of Change. The Meninas of Canido, Art in the Street as an Urban Dynamizer

2020

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The austerity policies imposed by the government in the wake of the 2007 crisis have deteriorated the welfare state and limited neighborhood recovery. Considering the inability and inefficiency on the part of administrations to carry out improvement actions in neighborhoods, it is the neighborhood action itself that has carried out a series of resilient social innovations to reverse the dynamics. In this article, we will analyze the Canido neighborhood in Ferrol, a city in north-western Spain. Canido is traditional neighborhood that was experiencing a high degree of physical and social deterioration, until a cultural initiative called “Meninas of Canido,” promoted by one of its artist neighbors, recovered its identity and revitalized it from a physical, social, and economic point of view. Currently, the Meninas of Canido has become one of the most important urban art events in Spain and has receives international recognition. The aim of this article is to evaluate the impact that this action has had in the neighborhood. For this, we conducted a series of semi-structured interviews with the local administration, neighborhood association, the precursors of this idea, merchants, and some residents in general, in order to perceive the reception and evolution of this action.

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Governmentalities of Urban Crises in Inner‐city Athens, Greece

Cited by 31 publications

References 20 publications

City Sovereignty: Urban Resistance and Rebel Cities Reconsidered

City Sovereignty: Urban Resistance and Rebel Cities Reconsidered

Socio-spatial stigmatization and its ‘incorporation’ in the centre of Athens, Greece

Citizen Action as a Driving Force of Change. The Meninas of Canido, Art in the Street as an Urban Dynamizer

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