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Andreas Novy Vienna University of Economics and Business

Survey paper EF12 on “Social cohesion in the City as a whole” Presentation Given at the SOCIAL-POLIS-Vienna Conference, 11th May, 2009. Andreas Novy Vienna University of Economics and Business. Social Cohesion in the City – Empowering inhabitants to shape their city.

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Andreas Novy Vienna University of Economics and Business

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  1. Survey paper EF12 on “Social cohesion in the City as a whole”Presentation Given at the SOCIAL-POLIS-Vienna Conference, 11th May, 2009 Andreas Novy Vienna University of Economics and Business

  2. Social Cohesion in the City – Empowering inhabitants to shape their city • Split between an overview paper (EF0 Introduction by Novy, Moulaert, Beinstein and Coimbra) and • EF 12-survey paper by Novy, Moulaert, Coimbra focused on policy-implications

  3. Social cohesion as an urban problematique The effort to repair the perils and damages caused by capitalist modernisation asjanus-faced is often felt and lived in the city (urban problematique) Creative destruction (Schumpeter) Capitalist development as Janus-faced (Marx / Harvey) To experience personal and social life as a maelstrom (Berman: individuum and society)

  4. Social Cohesion and the crisis of neoliberal restructuring Social cohesion as a discursive field emerged due to crisisofneoliberal restructuring (1990s) Social cohesion: key term of inclusive liberalism (caring neoliberalism) Individualise or politizise the problematique Individual adaptation to existing order or Efforts to change it

  5. Politizise the problematique Culturally: From a single-language, mono-ethnic norm to a city which accommodates diversity, equality and order Socio-economically: From market fundamentalism to an plural urban economy which experiments with the adequate mix of markets and planning and private, communal and public ownership (impurity principle – Hodgson) Politically: From an essentialist and exclusionary concept of national citizenship to a scale-sensitive and inhabitant-centred conception of citizenship

  6. Theoretical approaches The competitive city Cities as nodal points Functional logic (policies towards cohesion subordinated to those related to competitiveness) Competitiveness as a solely supply-side oriented concept City as an integrated territory Cities as places of territorially-rooted practices, institutions and conflicts Territorial logic (cohesion dependent on coherent accumulation strategies) Forms of multi-scalar and multi-dimensional governance

  7. Political philosophy and policy-orientation Neoliberalism(neoconservativism) Free market as a spontaneous order Law and order (individualise the problem) Inclusive Liberalism (social inclusion) Social policies functional and subordinated to economic policies Solidarity-based Development City as territory of collective consumption Democratic conflict resolution

  8. Towards a Social Polis A new economy Cohesive scale-sensitive accumulation strategy Plural / mixed economy (beyond supply-side economics and beggar thy neighbour) Regionalising economic activities (sustainability) A new type of research Transdisciplinarity Public Debate A new type of politics Deviant Mainstreaming Scale-sensitive Politics Multi-dimensional and multi-scalar Democratisation

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