Re-orienting geographies of urban diversity and coexistence: Analyzing inclusion and difference in public space

Ye, Junjia

doi:10.1177/0309132518768405

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“…After the work of Jurgen Habermas and Hannah Arendt, discussions and evaluations about the concept of public space have been enriched with the contributions of Richard Sennett. The changing meaning and content of public spaces (Madanipour 2019 ; Pratt 2017 ; Gak 2016 ), the blurring boundaries between public and private spaces (Crawford 1999 ; Ye 2019 ), the privatization of public spaces (pseudo-public spaces) (Wang and Chen 2018 ; Bodnar 2015 ), the increasing importance of virtual public spaces (Fuchs 2017 ; Dahlgren 2018 ; Kruse et al 2018 ; Miller 2020 ) are hot topics in the relevant agenda.…”

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Changing perceptions and usage of public and pseudo-public spaces in the post-pandemic city: the case of Istanbul

2021

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Public space has critical importance for the city and society because it forms a sense of community. The debate on the end of public space, which is ongoing as the privatization in the city rises, moves on to a new phase with the Covid-19 outbreak. Since the perception of public spaces will be a determinant factor in the future of the city, the question arises: How the perception and usage of the public, virtual public and pseudo-public spaces (particularly shopping malls) have been affected by the recent Covid-19 pandemic? The aim of this study is to examine the changing perception and usage of public and pseudopublic spaces during the Covid-19 outbreak in Istanbul, Turkey. Within this scope, an online survey was conducted with 337 participants living in Istanbul between the dates of 1-5 June 2020. With this survey, the change in perceptions and usage of these spaces based on personal, residential and district characteristics were investigated. The findings of the study revealed statistically significant differences between the perceptions and usage of public spaces and pseudo-public spaces before and after the Covid-19 outbreak in terms of personal, residential and district characteristics. According to survey results, there would be a significant decrease in the frequency of possible visits to public places. The outbreak reduces interest in virtual spaces as a leisure activity, but it also increases the interest in virtual spaces as a shopping and meeting/chat platform. In addition, it was determined that the demand for shopping centres and virtual platforms as both before-after-the-outbreak leisure activities decreased significantly as the amount of green space per capita increases. Besides, the diminishing reputations of pseudo-public spaces and the increasing importance of virtual public spaces may be observed from the survey results. The longer the outbreak, the greater its impact on the design and planning of public spaces and pseudo-public spaces. Rather than planning huge and crowded spaces such as big squares and huge malls, there is likely a shift toward planning a large number of small-scale public spaces within walking distance.

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Changing perceptions and usage of public and pseudo-public spaces in the post-pandemic city: the case of Istanbul

2021

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“…It is these pre‐pandemic forms of spatial cleansing and ordering that normalise the low‐waged migrant as a risky body in need of disciplining. Rather than sharing of space as necessarily indicative of urban conviviality and shared bonds, there are boundaries, selections and enclosures embedded within public spaces (Ye 2019). The limits of coexistence are both implicit and explicit.…”

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“…The limits of coexistence are both implicit and explicit. Aside from explicit rules and regulations enforcing what should and should not be done in public, there are also everyday, tacit rules of conduct which new arrivals must adopt to be considered a good migrant (Ye 2019).…”

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Ordering Diversity: Co‐Producing the Pandemic and the Migrant in Singapore during COVID‐19

2021

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What do measures of management during this exceptional and volatile time tell us about the regulation of migrant‐driven diversity and its implications in the arrival city? Using the term “differential diversification” from Singapore, I examine how the socio‐political life of the pandemic is deeply entangled with the management of low‐waged labour migrants. Techno‐political discourses and practices of pandemic management accelerated the state’s attempts to differently include migrant workers, revealing the bare viscerality of biopolitics already in place prior to the pandemic. I argue that diversity is ordered through a striking co‐production of migrant management and pandemic management. This paper draws upon government discourses to demonstrate that measures of pandemic management contribute not only to the spatial regime of migrant management. They also articulate and rationalise the subject transformation of the low‐waged migrant to the extent that, on top of being a moral risk, they are also now a medical risk.

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“…J.-L. Amselle ( 2009) has critically examined the idealization of such hybridized places whose clienteles have no interest in the actual "elsewhere" they evoke, concluding that the fashion for cultural mixing in Euro-American cities is empty artifice. Regardless, this trend is becoming apparent in every city of the world, including cities that are considered dominated in international representations (Ye 2019) that no one wants to protect from marketed exoticism. In Antananarivo as in Paris and Shanghai, some residents love nothing more than going to places of sociability that they see as cosmopolitan for a dose of the Other and cultural mixing.…”

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Everyday Cosmopolitanism in African Cities: Places of Leisure and Consumption in Antananarivo and Maputo

Fournet‐Guérin

2021

IMISCOE Research Series

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African cities are sometimes considered “off the map” as underdeveloped peripheries alienated from cultural globalisation. The intrinsic ethnic and cultural diversity of African cities is often overshadowed by a distant perception of their overall “blackness” and a supposed cultural uniformity. These cities have always been places of intense circulation and mass settlement both from within the continent and from outside, may it be from Asia, Europe and the Middle East in colonial contexts notably but also more recently Latin America. However, African urban diversity and the recent changes it underwent has received little academic attention.This chapter describes cosmopolitan practices and representations in Antananarivo (Madagascar) and Maputo (Mozambique), mainly but not only focusing on Chinese diasporas and communities sharing Chinese origins through observation and interviews. Cosmopolitan interactions in old or newly created so-called “ethnic” places such as restaurants, casinos and other leisure settings are under study to discuss processes of neighbouring cosmopolitanism at the very local place. Residents of African cities display features of cosmopolitan urbanites with intense variation across contexts and communities.

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Re-orienting geographies of urban diversity and coexistence: Analyzing inclusion and difference in public space

Cited by 55 publications

References 86 publications

Changing perceptions and usage of public and pseudo-public spaces in the post-pandemic city: the case of Istanbul

Changing perceptions and usage of public and pseudo-public spaces in the post-pandemic city: the case of Istanbul

Ordering Diversity: Co‐Producing the Pandemic and the Migrant in Singapore during COVID‐19

Everyday Cosmopolitanism in African Cities: Places of Leisure and Consumption in Antananarivo and Maputo

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