Journal article
DEMOCRATIC PUBLIC OR POPULIST RABBLE: Repositioning the City amidst Social Fracture
International journal of urban and regional research, v 46(1)
01 Jan 2022
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Abstract
The current degree of social fracture that has attended the growing prevalence of populist movements calls into question the viability of democratic practices grounded in collective deliberation. Urban practitioners committed to democratic inclusion must confront the practical question of how to deal with a divided public. Any such effort must address longstanding and mutually reinforcing trends that have both aggravated social fragmentation and enabled the rise of populist regimes whose policies exacerbate divisiveness and inequity. These trends include economic restructuring and rising inequality, cultural division, and a post-truth trap resulting from disagreement over epistemological and ontological assumptions. We argue that, while local governments can play a role in addressing these dynamics, a more fundamental renewal of a meaningfully democratic polity depends on a capacity to help cultivate solidarity across difference. We then recast the city as a site of political encounter and experimentation that might enable both a re-examination of prevailing modes of public engagement and the emergence of solidarities and infrastructures through which populism might be challenged. Finally, we consider how a progressive urban politics of place might use populism as a point of departure for transforming urban futures.
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- Title
- DEMOCRATIC PUBLIC OR POPULIST RABBLE: Repositioning the City amidst Social Fracture
- Creators
- Juan J. Rivero - NYU, Wagner Sch Publ Serv, 295 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10012 USALuisa Sotomayor - York Univ, Fac Environm Studies, 4700 Keele St, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, CanadaJuliana M. Zanotto - Univ Calif Irvine, Sch Social Ecol, 5300 Social & Behav Sci Gateway, Irvine, CA 92697 USAAndrew Zitcer - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- International journal of urban and regional research, v 46(1)
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Number of pages
- 14
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Architecture, Design, and Urbanism
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000562422100001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85081592985
- Other Identifier
- 991019168909004721
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- Domestic collaboration
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- Web of Science research areas
- Geography
- Regional & Urban Planning
- Urban Studies