L’équipe du LABRRI vous informe que Bob White, de passage à l’Institut Max Planck de Göttingen (Allemagne), en collaboration avec Maria Schiller (Université de Rotterdam), a donné une présentation intitulée Urban Policy Worlds and the Accommodation of Difference: Concepts, Practice, Methods.
Suite à l’atelier, un texte à été publié par Bob White sur le site de l’Institut.
Résumé du workshop:
Cities have always been spaces of diversity. In recent decades, however, municipal governments in many parts of the world have begun to play a more active role in terms of how diversity is understood and organised. In this workshop we start from the idea that cities are increasingly involved in the work of defining and operationalizing concepts that set out to accommodate difference and promote social equity in rapidly diversifying urban spaces. How do public/civic institutions understand these concepts and how do they mobilise public resources in order to affect particular outcomes? How can we study these “policy worlds” (understandings, structures, practices) and what are the methodological challenges of this endeavor, especially given the difficulty of making comparisons? After a broad introduction to key concepts and policy paradigms in a number of municipal settings in Europe and North America, we will expand the discussion to consider how these paradigms are playing out in different organisational contexts inside and outside of municipal practice (including NGOs, welfare organizations, etc.). Any attempt to understand the complex relationship between policy worlds and local practice requires us to examine the framing activity that various local actors undertake when attempting to make urban space safe for difference.