Manufacturing marginality. (Un-)governing the night in Berlin
| Autor: | Peter Dirksmeier, Sebastian Schlüter, Ilse Helbrecht, Carolin Genz, Ulrike Mackrodt, Henning Füller, Beatrice Walthall, Peter Van Gielle Ruppe |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Sociology and Political Science
media_common.quotation_subject Corporate governance 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography 021107 urban & regional planning 02 engineering and technology Public administration Object (philosophy) Entertainment Public space Borough State (polity) Problematization Urban planning Political science 050703 geography media_common |
| Zdroj: | Geoforum. 94:24-32 |
| ISSN: | 0016-7185 |
| Popis: | As the night-time economy gains relevance in discourses on Berlin's urban development, ‘the night' has become a contested term. Night-time use of public space is the object of growing public dissatisfaction, especially in certain areas of the borough Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. This paper looks at the governance arrangement that evolves in response to this problematization through the lens of one specific project. The so-called fair.kiez project gathered a broad coalition of state and non-state actors, local and citywide organizations to mediate use-conflicts regarding night-time noise, littering and unruly behavior in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. Having evaluated the conception and implementation of this project, we suggest that this project is exemplary for a specific un-governing of recent conflicts between residents and economic interests in an entertainment and consumption-oriented city economy. The fair.kiez project reveals interlocking patterns of this (un-)governing, such as the manufacturing of a specific consent, the marginalization of the problem and a shift to symbolic policies. A horizontal governance arrangement is formed and public demands are answered, but ultimately the issue is rendered un-governable. In analyzing the un-governing of the night as an example for the process of de-politicization this paper contributes to debates on post-political urban governance. |
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