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Ioannis Chorianopoulos;Naya Tselepi

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JOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS,Vol.42,Issue1,P.39-55

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英文

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作者单位

University of the Aegean

摘要

In this article, the shift from government to governance in local affairs is viewed through the “rescaling” lens and the changing relations between state and civil society via a scalable interpretation of the Gramscian notion of the “integral state.” The case in point is Athens, in which formal and informal collaborative vehicles for decision making were explored. At the city hall level, we show how the rescaling of the local state and the politics of austerity is influencing the recomposition of civil society, shaping a new form of “elite pluralism” based on the power and influence of third-sector multinationals. At the civil society level, we investigate the variety of grassroots collaborative initiatives that have sprung recently up, underscoring their firm avoidance of austerity-related agents, policies, and institutions. Austerity is changing the matrices of Athens's urban governance. It is bifurcating civil society into an elite sector partnering with the city and a grassroots element that positions itself outside the austerity machine.Additional informationAuthor informationIoannis ChorianopoulosIoannis Chorianopoulos is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, University of the Aegean. His research interests relate to urban governance, residential segregation, and austerity urbanism.Naya TselepiNaya Tselepi received a doctorate in human geography from the University of the Aegean, Greece, in 2016. Her main areas of research include collaborative governance, “the commons,” and enclosures, borders and mobilities, biopolitics and control, and the philosophy of assemblages.FundingThe research discussed in this article draws from the Economic and Social Research Council–funded study of Collaborative Governance Under Austerity (grant number ES/L012898/1).AcknowledgmentsThe authors thank Jonathan Davies for his insightful comments on parts of this work in its early stages.