Environment and Planning A Economy and Space· 2012Q1
Assembling Urbanism: Following Policies and ‘Studying Through’ the Sites and Situations of Policy Making
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This paper proposes a methodological framework for studying urban policy-making by 'studying through' the sites and situations where policies are assembled, focusing on following actors and policies through their networks.
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Key points
- Proposes a methodological approach to urban policy studies that moves beyond territorial orthodoxy.
- Introduces the concept of 'studying through' policy assemblages, focusing on actors, policies, and relational situations.
- Emphasizes techniques for following the mobility and mutability of policies and discourses.
- Argues that academic research design and writing actively assemble cities and policy-making.
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Abstract
Recent years have seen a challenge to the territorial orthodoxy in urban studies. An interest in policy assemblage, mobility, and mutation has begun to open up ‘the what’ and ‘the where’ of urban policy making. Unfortunately—but perhaps not surprisingly—theoretical developments and empirical insights have run ahead of significant methodological considerations. This paper turns to some of the methodological consequences of studying the chains, circuits, networks, and webs in and through which policy and its associated discourses and ideologies are made mobile and mutable. It focuses on three rubrics under which methodological decisions can be made: ‘studying through’ (rather than studying up or down), techniques of following actors, policies, etc, and relational situations in which mobilization and assemblage happen. The paper concludes with a brief reflection on how academic research design and writing assemble cities and urban policy making in ways that parallel the assembling practices of policy actors.
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Field: Urban Studies
Urban StudiesSocial Sciences