Good residents, bad residents: How participatory processes in urban redevelopment privilege entrepreneurial citizens

Stapper, E.W.; Duyvendak, J.W.

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2020.102898

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“…The continuous interplay between LEIs and local governments, to a degree, can be seen as a characteristic of local collective action. As previous research has outlined, such an interplay often brings contextualized solutions that fit LEIs within existing administrative procedures (Frantzeskaki et al 2016;Kalkbrenner and Roosen 2016;Stapper and Duyvendak 2020). Denters (2016) show how local collective action is embedded in policies and administrative procedures, leading to the institutionalization of citizen initiatives.…”

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Local collective action for sustainability transformations: emerging narratives from local energy initiatives in The Netherlands

Hasanov

Zuidema

2022

Sustain Sci

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The phrase “local collective action” is increasingly being used to describe how civil society engages with, and acts upon, sustainability transformations. While existing research has framed local collective action as an outcome of creating a shared agenda on a local level, there have been calls for exploring the diversity of ideas, motives, and ambitions people have when they join local energy initiatives. This article aims to identify the diverse attitudes towards local collective action envisioned by those who engage in local energy initiatives. We use Q methodology to analyze people’s perceptions of the local collective action they are engaged in and how those perceptions could manifest in different pathways for sustainability transformations. Forty-seven statements reflecting various approaches to local collective action were sorted by people engaged in various local energy initiatives in the northeast of the Netherlands. Based on the analysis, we distinguish four factors—Localism, Facilitation, Orchestration, and Radical Transformation—that express the diverse aspirations, motivations, and rationales associated with local collective action in local energy initiatives. The findings emphasize that for those engaged in local energy initiatives (LEIs), local collective action means navigating among different assumptions, values, and transformation processes, which often oscillate between guiding principles that emphasize “getting things done” and “creating a pleasant atmosphere”. We argue that these four factors can serve as a starting point for developing local collective action strategies to help local communities and authorities unpack possible tensions, confrontations, and conflicts concerning local energy initiatives. These findings point out that while local energy initiatives rely on people’s energy and enthusiasm, practitioners and governments should be cautious while embracing their ambitions and values.

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Local collective action for sustainability transformations: emerging narratives from local energy initiatives in The Netherlands

Hasanov

Zuidema

2022

Sustain Sci

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“…Since this research inquires how contracts are used to achieve public goals, I focus on citizens’ interests rather than costs. Citizens’ interests are a set of goals and needs that are the outcome of participatory processes (see Stapper and Duyvendak, 2020). Therefore, I have chosen to develop a conceptual framework based on relational contract theory (Macaulay, 1963; Macneil, 1980).…”

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“…The goal of participation is to give residents influence over development projects. However, broader literature on participatory governance shows that there exist barriers in the ability of government agencies to implement the outcomes of participatory processes, and social inequalities tend to be reproduced (Levine, 2017; Stapper and Duyvendak, 2020; Walker et al, 2015). Furthermore, participatory processes are criticised by several authors as being ‘post-political’ (McAuliffe and Rogers, 2018; Metzger et al, 2015; Swyngedouw, 2005).…”

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Private ordering of public processes: How contracts structure participatory processes in urban development in Amsterdam and Hamburg

Stapper

2021

Urban Studies

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The use of contracts to achieve public goals has been gaining traction since the 1980s. In this article, I investigate the implications of the increased use of private law instruments for participatory democracy. This study starts with problematising the notion of contracts and proposes a conceptual model to study contractual relations in participatory processes. Next, through a detailed description of two case studies in Amsterdam and Hamburg, I show the consequences of contractual governance for participatory democracy in urban development. Namely, the interests of commercial parties and government agencies are incorporated in contracts, whereas the interests of residents are incorporated in non-legal agreements. This has four implications for our understanding of participatory democracy and urban politics. First, the arena of public decision making has shifted from public meetings to contractual negotiations. Second, contracts are not set in stone. Mobilisation by residents can influence, adjust and politicise agreements. However, third, residents need to be able to mobilise and negotiate. This creates new boundaries between residents who are able to make deals and those who are excluded. Lastly, investigating how contracts transform urban politics should take a broad view on how contractual relations are formed and focus on both non-legal and contractual agreements.

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“…Market-led processes underpin state-led interventions in the urban space to transform 'problem places' into sites of active consumption (Paton et al, 2012(Paton et al, : 1470. The argument is that these interventions generate a politically instilled framing of citizenship that distinguishes between 'good' and 'bad' working class (Koster, 2015: 217) and attempt to shape their behaviour according to what is thought to be good, appropriate and responsible conduct (see Gray and Mooney, 2011;Stapper and Duyvendak, 2020;Ward, 2003). In the UK context, for example, gentrification targets 'civilising' working-class subjectivities by inciting their aspirations to become more like middle classes and encouraging consumer behaviour (Paton, 2014;Paton and Cooper, 2016).…”

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Drawing the boundaries of ‘good citizenship’ through state-led urban redevelopment in Dikmen Valley

Yardımcı

2022

European Urban and Regional Studies

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This article explores the role of contemporary urban redevelopment in invoking a renegotiation of citizenship. There has been a wide acknowledgement that neoliberalism is a political project involving transformations in the state–market–citizen relations. However, the scholarly emphasis on market-led principles in remaking places and people falls short of acknowledging political aspirations and struggles that intrude in processes of inclusion and exclusion at the city scale. Focussing on the case of Turkey, where neoliberal urban policies and practices have been linked to the central government’s political ambitions, the article illustrates that urban redevelopment projects help the state actors realign citizenship with the authoritarian regime. A focus on the state-led urban interventions from the perspective of bordering the ‘good citizen’ suggests that neoliberal urban redevelopment projects are mobilised by the state to promote official citizenship agendas. Drawing on in-depth interviews, photos and observations from 9-month fieldwork in Dikmen Valley (Ankara), this article ethnographically documents how the ideals of the ‘good citizen’ in an authoritarian context differ from the market-led promotion of consumerist, aspirational and active citizens.

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Good residents, bad residents: How participatory processes in urban redevelopment privilege entrepreneurial citizens

Cited by 23 publications

References 15 publications

Local collective action for sustainability transformations: emerging narratives from local energy initiatives in The Netherlands

Local collective action for sustainability transformations: emerging narratives from local energy initiatives in The Netherlands

Private ordering of public processes: How contracts structure participatory processes in urban development in Amsterdam and Hamburg

Drawing the boundaries of ‘good citizenship’ through state-led urban redevelopment in Dikmen Valley

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