Understanding the (<scp>R</scp>e)Definition of Nationhood in French Cities: A Case of Multiple States and Multiple Republics

Downing, Joseph

doi:10.1111/sena.12148

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“…Thus, official language that emphasizes “diversity” or “intersectional” identities may be deemed to better capture the range of difference in urban communities. Interestingly, “diversity” framings have also entered immigrant integration policies in German and French localities (Downing 2015; Pütz and Rodatz 2013, quoted in Schönwalder).…”

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Municipal Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services in an Age of Migration and Superdiversity

Tossutti

2022

Urban Affairs Review

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The goals of promoting diversity, equity and inclusion have gained currency in planning practice, and institutions are increasingly expected to address structural inequalities related to race, ethnicity and other forms of marginalization. This article examines how six Canadian municipalities have adapted their parks, recreation and culture strategic plans, policies, programs and services in response to international migration and racial diversity. The analysis of official documents and interviews with municipal officials and community representatives reveals that municipalities have adopted de facto multicultural planning practices aligned with the state paradigm of immigrant integration and national identity, even when the term “multiculturalism” is rarely employed in official discourse. They have also incorporated some aspects of mainstreaming into the planning repertoire. In Canada, mainstreaming is not an alternative to group-specific programing, but an additional mechanism for the recognition of difference in public institutions.

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Municipal Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services in an Age of Migration and Superdiversity

Tossutti

2022

Urban Affairs Review

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“…In other words, the possibilities for generating an inclusive nation should also be searched away from a centralized, normative discourse which aspires to evenly spread across the national space. Recent scholarship (Rossetto 2015;Downing 2015;Wilson 2015) has indeed highlighted the importance of local, urban contexts in generating forms of national inclusion. This is not to say that local instances of nationhood are per se more progressive or less dominated by the ethno-cultural core group than those produced centrally by the state.…”

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Ethno-cultural diversity and the limits of the inclusive nation

Antonsich

Petrillo

2018

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Migration is often said, in the public discourse, to pose a threat to the nation. Yet, Western societies are undergoing an irreversible demographic change spurred in great part by international migration. Thus, the question about how to reconcile nation and diversity remains of crucial importance for many countries. By focusing on the case of Italy, the article attends to this issue, by exploring the response of leftist political parties. We analyse parliamentary debates and laws related to immigration and integration issues (1986-2014), focusing specifically on the Turco-Napolitano Law (1998), possibly the most progressive legislative attempt at incorporating migrants into the Italian nation. Our analysis shows a clear incongruence between the pluralist rhetoric of the political left and its legislative acts on migrants' national incorporation. This finding is used to reflect on the limits and possibilities of the very idea of inclusive nation in the age of migration.

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“…The politics of place in cities has been shown to impact the development of a nation’s mainstream symbolic repertoire (Jones and Desforges 2003). Cities are also sites from which divergences from state conceptions of national identity can emerge (Downing 2015). While studies of bottom-up actions affecting post-Soviet nation building have often focused on capital cities, this study will highlight the significance of the location of actors in cities in peripheral regions of Russia that have distinct dynamics of contention concerning national identity.…”

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The Local Dynamics of Nation Building: Identity Politics and Constructions of the Russian Nation in Kazan and Ekaterinburg

Wilmers

2022

Nationalities Papers

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This article explores the role of place-based identity politics in constructions of the Russian nation by nongovernmental actors in the cities of Kazan and Ekaterinburg. Departing from more established approaches to the study of nation building concerned with elite strategies and actions, it contributes to an emerging line of inquiry focused on the agency of mesolevel actors. Drawing on interviews and analysis of public communications, the article demonstrates that actors such as museums, activist groups, and religious institutions creatively employ mainstream discursive practices present also in state narratives to anchor the nation in local symbols. At the same time, they position themselves in locally specific identity cleavages concerning city, regional, and ethnonational minority identities. The findings show that the imbrication of local identity politics in their narratives can problematize nation building by exposing contradictions in federal discourses or troubling the association of nation and state. Emphasizing the importance of locally situated processes of constructing the nation in conjunction with other scales of belonging, the article argues that nation building in Russia is complicated by mesolevel practices of identity making that can simultaneously support and subvert it.

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Understanding the (Re)Definition of Nationhood in French Cities: A Case of Multiple States and Multiple Republics

Cited by 11 publications

References 26 publications

Municipal Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services in an Age of Migration and Superdiversity

Municipal Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services in an Age of Migration and Superdiversity

Ethno-cultural diversity and the limits of the inclusive nation

The Local Dynamics of Nation Building: Identity Politics and Constructions of the Russian Nation in Kazan and Ekaterinburg

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