Legitimating Business Improvement Districts in Johannesburg: A discursive perspective on urban regeneration and policy transfer
| Autor: | Elisabeth Peyroux |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Peyroux, Elisabeth, Centre interdisciplinaire d'études urbaines (Toulouse) (CIEU), Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Policy transfer
media_common.quotation_subject [SHS.GEO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography 0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography 02 engineering and technology Environmental Science (miscellaneous) Public administration Power (social and political) Critical discourse analysis South Africa 11. Sustainability Sociology transfert de politiques renouvellement urbain media_common Reinterpretation urban regeneration Afrique du Sud 05 social sciences 021107 urban & regional planning [SHS.GEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography critical discourse analysis analyse de discours critique Private sector Social constructionism Urban Studies Economy Legitimation Business Improvement Districts Johannesburg Ideology policy transfer 050703 geography |
| Zdroj: | European Urban and Regional Studies European Urban and Regional Studies, SAGE Publications, 2012, 19 (2), pp.181-194 |
| ISSN: | 0969-7764 |
| Popis: | Texte intégral à l'adresse : http://eur.sagepub.com/content/19/2/181.full.pdf+html; International audience; This article considers the transfer of the Business Improvement District concept to South Africa from a discursive perspective. It examines the ways in which the private sector (property and business owners) has justified the adoption of the model and how it has moulded the concept to Johannesburg's inner city. Drawing on critical discourse analysis, this paper focuses on legitimation strategies, locating them within broader social practices and power relations within the framework of urban revitalization policies implemented after the democratic transition. By focusing on legitimation strategies, and more particularly on their linguistic and semiotic aspects at the micro level, the article shows how the analysis of language use, particularly through a socio-cognitive approach (Van Dijk, 2009), can contribute to uncovering the opinions, attitudes, ideologies, norms and values of social actors. It can also offer insights into a local reinterpretation of a globally circulating model. The comparative analysis of two case studies highlights changing assumptions and attitudes, at least in local rhetoric, and demonstrates how the imported model has been reshaped not only by different discourses associated with various social practices but also by changing policy demands. By considering discourse as an instrument of the social construction of reality as well as an instrument of power and control, the chosen approach also underlines the way in which inequalities are reproduced and maintained in Johannesburg. |
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