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作者

Pierre Hamel;Roger Keil

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JOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS,Vol.42,Issue1,P.109-124

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英文

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作者单位

Université de Montréal

摘要

This paper presents an investigation of local politics in an age of austerity in Montreal. Based on detailed interviews with actors in the local state, the municipal sphere and civil society, we analyzed a broad spectrum of political options between resistance and collaboration that characterizes the landscape of “austerian realism” in the Quebec metropolis. While Montreal has had a long history of collaboration at the local level, the municipality’s operation and institutions have come under stress lately as more aggressive austerity policies have been downloaded to the city from the province. We aim to understand what the consequences for local actors have been. The paper is subdivided in four parts. First, we revisit the notion of urban governance, building on a definition of the state as “cultural practice.” Second, we introduce the main components of past local state restructuring in Montreal, paying attention to the main rationalities supporting austerity measures. Third, we look at the main categories of actors involved in collaborative governance around issues of austerity measures and policies. Fourth, we consider activism within civil society. We conclude that emerging forms of cooperation remain key to the understanding of welfare state restructuring in Montreal.Additional informationAuthor informationPierre HamelPierre Hamel is Professor of Sociology at Université de Montréal and former editor of the sociology journal Sociologie et sociétés. His research focuses on cities and democratizing processes, collective action around urban issues, regional governance and suburban development. He is co-editor, with Louis Guay, of Les aléas du débat public. Action collective, expertise et démocratie (Les Presses de l’Université Laval, 2018) and co-editor of Suburban Governance: A Global View (with Roger Keil).Roger KeilRoger Keil is Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University in Toronto. He researches global suburbanization, urban political ecology, cities and infectious disease, and regional governance. Keil is the author of Suburban Planet (Polity 2018). He is co-editor, with Xuefei Ren, of The Globalizing Cities Reader (Routledge 2017); co-editor of Suburban Governance: A Global View (with Pierre Hamel); and co-editor of Massive Suburbanization (with K. Murat Güney and Murat Üçoğlu).FundingThe research from which this publication derives is funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (Ref. ES/L012898/1), “Collaborative Governance Under Austerity: An Eight-Case Comparative Study.”AcknowledgmentsThe Principal Investigator is Professor Jonathan Davies of DeMontford University. See http://www.dmu.ac.uk/ESRCAusterity. Pierre and Roger acknowledge research assistance at different stages of the project from Grégoire Autin, graduate student at the sociology department at the Université de Montréal.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.