What kind of democratic project is the “CITY”? and what does the new municipalism want to do with It?

Beveridge, R. and Koch, P. (2024) What kind of democratic project is the “CITY”? and what does the new municipalism want to do with It? In: Coşkun, G., İnal-Çekiç, T. and Tombuş, E. (eds.) Reclaiming Democracy in Cities. Routledge. ISBN 9781003404736 (doi: 10.4324/9781003404736-4)

Abstract

This chapter delineates democratic projects of the city. These envisage different roles for the state vis-à-vis society, as well as understandings of the potential of the “urban.” Much of the new municipalist movement's potential lies in the productive tensions it generates from interfacing state-centered and societal projects of the “city,” working across binaries like direct and representative democracy, social movements, and political parties. Limits are, however, detected in relation to the extent to which new municipalism might engage with a range of ongoing urban everyday political activisms, where very different means and spaces of acting politically and democratically are apparent.

• Item Type: Book Sections
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Beveridge, Dr Ross
• Authors: Beveridge, R., and Koch, P.
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Urban Studies
• Publisher: Routledge
• ISBN: 9781003404736
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2024 selection and editorial matter, Gülçin Balamir Coşkun, Tuba İnal-Çekiç, and Ertuğ Tombuş; individual chapters, the contributors
• First Published: First published in Reclaiming Democracy in Cities 2024
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced in accordance with the publisher copyright policy

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