Abstract
This chapter presents a case study by means of which the three concepts illustrated in the previous chapters are shown at work. The case exemplifies how, why and to what extent a policy of urban regeneration, that is to say the French Politique de la Ville implemented in the North-East of Paris, recognises and uses the cultural dimension, conceptualised through the three tenets of cultural pluralism, performativity of sensemaking, and distribution of semiotic capital. The case shows how the policy takes the cultural dimension into account, and it does that in different ways, from an implicit and normative recognition to a more generative one. Finally, the main characteristics of the policy that allows it to be culturally sensitive are highlighted.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Notes
- 1.
LOI n° 2014–173 du 21 février 2014 de programmation pour la ville et la cohésion urbaine.
- 2.
See STRAT-Board Country Fact-Sheet France https://urban.jrc.ec.europa.eu/strat-board/.
- 3.
A first temporary transit site was opened in 2016, and a new centre (centre d’accueil et d’examen des situations CAES) opened in January 2020.
- 4.
In this chapter, the authors translated all the participants’ quotations from French to English.
- 5.
The official documents for the PV in the area are the so called “territorial projects” (projet de territoire), that is to say, the local action plan for the city contract (contrat de ville). Each priority area has its own territorial project, which means there are two different action plans, one each for Goutte d’Or and La Chapelle.
- 6.
References
Alexander, M. (2012). Cities and labour immigration: Comparing policy responses in Amsterdam, Paris, Rome and Tel Aviv (Research in migration and ethnic relations series) (1st ed.). Farhnam (UK): Ashgate Publishing.
Amin, A. (2002). Ethnicity and the multicultural city: Living with diversity. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 34(6), 959–980. https://doi.org/10.1068/a3537.
Amin, A. (2012). Land of strangers (1st ed.). New York: Polity Press.
Andriola, V., Been, W., Cremaschi, M., Fini, V., Matsopoulos, A., Willet, J., & Salvatore, S. (2019). Policies and sensemaking. In S. Salvatore, V. Fini, T. Mannarini, J. Valsiner, & G. A. Veltri, (Eds.), Symbolic universes in time of (post)crisis. The future of European societies (pp. 271–291). Cham (CH): Springer.
Annunziata, S., Lees, L., & Rivas Alonso, C. (2021). Segregation, social mix and gentrification. In A. Orum, S. Vicari, & J. Ruiz-Tagle (Eds.), Companion to urban and regional studies 1st edition (1st ed.). New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
APUR. (2016). Les quartiers parisiens de la politique de la ville. Contrat de ville 2015–2020. Principales données de l’Observatoire des quartiers prioritaires [Parisian neighbourhoods of the policy of the city. City contract 2015–2020. Main data from the Observatory of priority neighbourhoods]. APUR. https://www.apur.org/en/our-works/neighbourhoods-paris-city-urban-cohesion-policy-main-data-observatory-priority.
Bacqué, M., & Fijalkow, Y. (2006). En attendant la gentrification: Discours et politiques à la Goutte d’Or (1982–2000) [Waiting for gentrification: Discourses and policies in Goutte d’Or]. Sociétés Contemporaines, 63(3), 63–83. https://doi.org/10.3917/soco.063.0063.
Chabrol, M. (2011). De nouvelles formes de gentrification? Dynamiques résidentielles et commerciales à Château-Rouge (Paris). [New forms of gentrification? Residential and commercial dynamics in Château-Rouge (Paris)] [Thesis, University of Poitiers (FR)], HAL. https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/file/index/docid/658852/filename/thA_se_M.Chabrol.pdf.
Cour de comptes. (2002). La politique de la ville. Rapport au président de la république suivie des réponses des administrations et des organismes intéressés [The policy of the city. Report to the president of the republic followed by the responses of the administrators and of the interested bodies]. Cour de comptes. https://www.vie-publique.fr/sites/default/files/rapport/pdf/024000096.pdf.
Cremaschi, M., & Fioretti, C. (2016). Diversity and interculturalism, a critique and a defence. Going through multiethnic neighbourhoods in Rome. In G. Marconi & E. Ostanel (Eds.), The intercultural city. Migration, minorities and the management of diversity (pp. 109–121). London: I. B. Tauris.
EUKN. (2014). The inclusive city: Approaches to combat urban poverty and social exclusion in Europe. European Urban Knowledge Network EGTC https://www.eukn.eu/fileadmin/Files/Publications/EUKN_report_InclusiveCity_Final.pdf.
Fincher, R., & Iveson, K. (2008). Planning and diversity in the city: Redistribution, recognition and encounter (planning, environment, cities). London: Red Globe Press.
Fincher, R., Iveson, K., Leitner, H., & Preston, V. (2014). Planning in the multicultural city: Celebrating diversity or reinforcing difference? Progress in Planning, 92, 1–55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.progress.2013.04.001.
Fioretti, C., & Briata, P. (2018). Consumption and encounter in (multi)cultural quarters reflecting on London and Rome’s ‘Banglatowns.’ Urban Research & Practice, 12(4), 392–413. https://doi.org/10.1080/17535069.2018.1427784.
Lelévrier, C. (2006). Les mixités sociales [Social mixings]. Paris: La Documentation Françaises.
Mairie de Paris-DDCT-Mission Politique de la Ville. (2015a). Contrat de Ville 2015–2020. Project de Territoire –Quartier Goutte d’Or [City contract 2015–2020. Territorial Project – Neighbourhood Goutte d’Or]. Mairie de Paris. https://gouttedor-et-vous.org/IMG/pdf/quartiergouttedorcontratdeville.pdf.
Mairie de Paris-DDCT-Mission Politique de la Ville. (2015b). Contrat de Ville 2015–2020. Project de Territoire –Quartier La Chapelle. [City contract 2015–2020. Territorial Project – Neighbourhood La Chapelle]. Mairie de Paris. https://cdn.paris.fr/paris/2019/07/24/727a13feae55f4fccea392b6a1066e26.pdf.
Oberti, M. (2008). The French republican model of integration: The theory of cohesion and the practice of exclusion. New Directions for Youth Development, 119, 55–74. https://doi.org/10.1002/yd.273.
Re.Cri.Re. Consortium. (2017). Complete reports on case studies [Scientific report. Deliverable n. 4.2.]. Unpublished manuscript. Retrieved from https://www.recrire.eu/documents.
Sandercock, L. (2004). Cosmopolis II. Mongrel cities of the twenty-first century (2nd ed.). London: Continuum.
Shaw, S. (2010). Marketing ethnoscapes as spaces of consumption: Banglatown—London’s curry capital. Journal of Town and City Management, 1(4), 381–395.
Sorman, J. (2016). L’inhabitable [The inhabitable]. Paris: Gallimard.
Toubon, J. C., & Messamah, K. (1990). Coexistence et confrontation dans un quartier pluri-ethnique: Le cas de la Goutte d’Or [Coexistence and confrontation in a multi-ethnic neighbourhood: The case of Goutte d’Or]. Sociétés Contemporaines, 4(1), 37–50. https://doi.org/10.3406/socco.1990.974.
Vandecasteele, I., Baranzelli, C., Siragusa, A., & Aurambout, J. P. (Eds.). (2019). The future of cities—Opportunities, challenges and the way forward. EUR 29752 EN, Luxemburg: Publications Office. https://doi.org/10.2760/375209.
Uncited References
Akrich, M., Callon, M., Latour, B., & Monaghan, A. (2002). The key to success in innovation part II: The art of choosing good spokespersons. International Journal of Innovation Management, 6(2), 207–225.
Allen, J., Barlow, J., Leal, J., Maloutas, T., & Padovani, L. (2008). Housing and welfare In Southern Europe (Vol. 16). New York: Wiley.
Anderson, J. E. (1975). Public policy-making. New York: Praeger.
Appadurai, A. (2004). The capacity to aspire: Culture and the terms of recognition. In V. Rao & M. Walton (Eds.), Culture and public action (pp. 59–84). Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Bacqué, M., & Charmes, É. (Eds.). (2016). Mixité sociale, et après? [Social mixing, and then?]. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.
Bacqué, M., Fijalkow, Y., Launay, L., & Vermeersch, S. (2010). Social mix policies in Paris: Discourses, policies and social effects. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 35(2), 256–273. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2010.00995.x.
Barca, F. (2009). An agenda for a reformed cohesion policy. A place-based approach to meeting European Union challenges and expectations. Independent Report prepared at the request of Danuta Hübner, Commissioner for Regional Policy. Retrieved from https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/archive/policy/future/pdf/report_barca_v0306.pdf.
Beck, U. (1992). Risk society: Towards a new modernity. New York: Sage.
Bell, D. S. A. (2003). Mythscapes: Memory mythology and national identity. British Journal of Sociology, 54(1), 63–81.
Bobrow, D. (2006). Policy design: Ubiquitous, necessary and difficult. In B. Guy Peters & J. Pierre (Eds.), Handbook of public policy (pp. 75–96). Thousand Oaks (CA): Sage.
Bobrow, D. B. (2008). Social and cultural factors: Constraining and enabling. In M. Moran, R. Rein, & R. E. Goodin (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of public policy (pp. 572–586). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Harrison, L. E., & Huntington, S. P. (Eds.). Culture matters. New York: Basic Books.
Boyer, C. (1996). The city of collective memory: Its historical imagery and architectural entertainments. Cambridge (MA): The MIT Press.
Brenner, N. (1999). Globalisation as reterritorialisation: The re-scaling of urban governance in the European Union. Urban Studies, 36(3), 431–451.
Brodkin, E. Z. (2017). The ethnographic turn in political science: Reflections on the state of the art. PS: Political Science & Politics, 50(1), 131–134.
Bruner, J. (1990). Acts of meaning. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press.
Chakrabarty, D. (2009). Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial thought and historical difference. Princeton (NJ): Princeton University Press.
Colebatch, H. K. (2015). Knowledge, policy and the work of governing. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 17(3), 209–214.
Cremaschi, M. (2009). Mafie e territori: Note per una ricerca [Mafia and regions. Notes for a study]. Territorio, 49, 134–138.
Cremaschi, M., Laura, L. (2020). Writing Southern theory from the Global North. Notes on informality and regulation. Equilibri. Rivista per lo sviluppo sostenibile (Special Issue), 261–280.
Crinson, M. (Ed.). (2005). Urban memory: History and amnesia in the modern city. New York: Routledge.
Crosta, P. L. (1983). Anomalia e Innovazione: come si coniugano nelle politiche pubbliche e private ii Produzione del territorio. Archivio Di Studi Urbani E Regionali (17), [5].
de Certeau, M., Giard, L., & Mayol, P. (1998). The practice of everyday life: Living and cooking. Vol. 2 Minneapolis (MN): Minnesota University Press. (Original work in French, L’invention du quotidien. Vol. 2 Habiter, cuisiner. Paris: Gallimard, v1994).
Durnova, A., Fischer, F., & Zittoun, P. (2016). Discursive Approaches to Public Policy: Politics, Argumentation, and Deliberation. In B. G. Peters, & P. Zittoun, (Eds.), Contemporary approaches to public policy. Theories, controversies and perspectives (pp. 35–56). London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Dwyer, O. J., & Alderman, D. H. (2008). Memorial landscapes: Analytic questions and metaphors. GeoJournal, 73(3), 165–178.
Escafré-Dublet, A., Lelévrier, C., & Tenfiche, S. (2014). Assessment of Urban Policies in Paris, France. Paris: Lab’Urba, University Paris Est. https://www.urbandivercities.eu/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Urban-Policies-on-Diversity-in-Paris.pdf.
European Union European Regional Development Fund (n.d.). A journey through temporary use (pp. 1–52). https://refillthecity.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/refill-final-publication.pdf.
Fronterotta, F., Di Letizia, R., & Salvatore, S. (2018). Processual Monism: A Fresh Look at the Mind-Body Problem. Minds and Matter, 16(2), 167–194.
Geva-May, I. (2002). Cultural theory: The neglected variable in the craft of policy analysis. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 4, 243–266.
Geva-May, I. (2005). Thinking like a policy analyst. In I. Geva-May (Ed.). Thinking like a policy analyst. Political analyst as a clinical professional (pp. 15–50). Palgrave Macmillan, New York.
Glaser, C. L. (2010). Rational theory of international politics: The logic of competition and cooperation. Princeton (NJ): Princeton University Press.
Goodin, R. E., Moran, M., & Rein, M. (Eds.). (2006). The Oxford handbook of public policy (Vol. 6). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Gottweis, H. (2006). Argumentative policy analysis. In J. Pierre & B. G. Peters (Eds.), Handbook of public policy (pp. 461–480). Thousand Oaks (CA): Sage.
Gramsci, A (1971). Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1929–1935). New York: International Publishers (Original work: Quaderni dal Carcere, Torino (ITA): Enaudi, 1948–1951).
Grendstad, G., Selle, P., & Thompson, M. (Eds.). (2003). Cultural theory as political science. New York: Routledge.
Gruppe Gut. (2014). Concept for the design of the permanent exhibition within the monument to victory of Bolzano/Bozen. Retrieved from https://www.monumenttovictory.com/fileadmin/user_upload/pdfs/GGG_MaV_Konzept-EN.pdf.
Hajer, M. A., & Wagenaar, H. (Eds.). (2003). Deliberative policy analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hirschman, A. O. (1970). Exit, voice, and loyalty: Responses to decline in firms, organizations, and states (Vol. 25). Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press.
Hirschman, A. O. (1971). A bias for hope. Essays on development and Latin America. New Haven (CT): Yale University Press.
Huntington, S. S. (2000). Forewords. Culture counts. In L. Harrison, & S. P. Huntington (Eds.) Culture matters (pp. xiii–xvi). New York: Basic Books.
Huyssen, A. (2003, December 6). Present pasts: Urban palimpsests, and the politics of memory. Stanford (CA): Stanford University Press.
Inglehart, R., & Norris, P. (2017). Trump and the populist authoritarian parties: The silent revolution in reverse. Perspectives on Politics, 15(02), 443–454. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592717000111.
Kleinbub, J., Testolin, A., Palmieri, A., & Salvatore, S. (submitted). The phase space of meaning model of psychopathology. A first validation through computer simulation modelling.
Lascoumes, P., & Le Galès, P. (2005). Gouverner par les instruments [Governing by instruments]. Paris: Presses de Sciences Po.
Lasswell, H. D. (1956). The political science of science: An inquiry into the possible reconciliation of mastery and freedom. American Political Science Review, 50(4), 961–979. https://doi.org/10.2307/1951330.
Le Galès, P. (2016). Neoliberalism and urban change: Stretching a good idea too far? Territory, Politics, Governance, 4(2), 154–172.
Legg, S. (2007). Reviewing geographies of memory/forgetting. Environment, and Planning a, 39(2), 456–466.
Legg, S., & McFarlane, C. (2008). Ordinary urban spaces: Between postcolonialism, and development. Environment, and Planning A, 40(1), 6–14.
Leontidou, L. (1993). Postmodernism and the city: Mediterranean versions. Urban Studies, 30(6), 949–965.
Mamadouh, V. (1999). Grid-group cultural theory: An introduction. GeoJournal, 47(3), 395–409.
Mignolo, W. (2000). The many faces of cosmopolis: Border thinking, and critical cosmopolitanism. Public Culture, 12(3), 721–748.
Mouffe, C. (2013). Agonistics: Thinking the world politically. London, New York: Verso Trade.
Musterd, S., Marcińczak, S., van Ham, M., & Tammaru, T. (2016). Socioeconomic segregation in European capital cities. Increasing separation between poor and rich. Urban Geography, 38(7), 1062–1083. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2016.1228371.
Nora, P. (1992). Les Lieux de mémoire: Les France. Paris: Gallimard.
Nussbaum, M. C. (2000). Woman and human development: The capabilities approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Okongwu, A. F., & Mencher, J. P. (2000). The anthropology of public policy: Shifting terrains. Annual Review of Anthropology, 29(1), 107–124.
Olson, M. (1965). The logic of collective action: Public goods and the theory of groups. Cambrdige (MA): Harvard University Press.
Palermo, P. C., & Ponzini, D. (2014). Place-making and urban development: New challenges for contemporary planning and design. New York: Routledge.
Parnell, S., & Robinson, J. (2012). (Re)Theorizing cities from the global south: Looking beyond neoliberalism. Urban Geography, 33(4), 593–617.
Parsons, T., Bales, R. F., & Shils, E. (1953). Working papers in the theory of action. New York: The Free Press.
Peirce, C. S. (1976). Application to the carnegie institution. The new elements of mathematics by Charles S. Peirce (C. Eisele, Ed.). The Hague (NL): Mouton Publishers, [Original work published in 1902].
Perulli, P. (2007). La città, La società europea nello spazio globale [The European city in the global space]. Milano (IT): Bruno Mondadori.
Rao, V., & Walton, M. (Eds.). (2004). Culture and public action. Stanford (CA): Stanford University Press.
Rao, V. (2006). Slum As Theory: The South/Asian city and globalization. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 30, 225–232.
Robinson, J. (2013). Ordinary cities: Between modernity and development. New York: Routledge.
Rossi, A. (1982). The architecture of the city. Cambridge (MA): The MIT Press.
Roy, A. (2009). The 21st-century metropolis: New geographies of theory. Regional Studies, 43(6), 819–830.
Salvatore, S., & Zittoun, T. (Eds.). (2011). Cultural psychology and psychoanalysis in dialogue. Issues for constructive theoretical and methodological synergies. Charlotte (NC): InfoAge Publishing.
Salvatore, S., & Palmieri, A. (in press). Semiotics and cognition across socio-cultural settings. In A. M. García & A. Ibáñez (Eds), The Routledge handbook of neurosemiotics. New York: Routledge.
Salvatore, S., Gelo, O., Gennaro, A., Manzo, S., & Al-Radaideh, A. (2010). Looking at the psychotherapy process as an intersubjective dynamic of meaning- making. A case study with Discourse Flow Analysis. Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 23, 195–230.
Sassen, S. (1998). Globalization and its discontents: Essays on the new mobility of people and money. New York: The New Press.
Sassen, S. (1999). Guests and aliens. New York: The New Press.
Sassen, S. (2008). Territory, authority, rights: From medieval to global assemblages. Princeton (NJ): Princeton University Press.
Schatz, E. (2017). Disciplines that forget: Political science and ethnography. PS: Political Science & Politics, 50(1), 135–138.
Schliewe, S., Chaudhary, N., & Marsico, P. (Eds.). (2018). Cultural psychology of intervention in the globalized world. Charlotte (NC): Information Age Publishing.
Sechi, G. (2018). L’occupation temporaire des friches et des espaces publics: des politiques culturelles innovantes? [The temporary occupation of public spaces: towards innovative cultural policies?]. In HURE Maxime et al. (Eds.), (Re)penser les politiques urbaines. Retour sur vingt ans d’action dans les villes françaises (1995–2015) (pp. 269–277). Paris: PUCA.
Sen, A. (1980). Equality of what? In S. McMurrin (Ed.), The Tanner lecture on human values (Vol. 1, pp. 197–220). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sen, A. (1990). Development as capability expansion. In The community development reader (pp. 41–58).
Storper, M. (2001). The poverty of radical theory today: From the false promises of Marxism to the mirage of the cultural turn. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 25(1), 155–179.
Susani, C. (2008). L’infanzia è un terremoto [Childhood is an earthquake]. Bari (IT): Laterza.
Swartz, D. L. (2013). Symbolic power, politics, and intellectuals: The political sociology of Pierre Bourdieu. Chicago (IL): Chicago University Press.
Swedlow, B. (2002). Toward cultural analysis in policy analysis: Picking up where Aaron Wildavsky left off. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 4(2), 267–285.
Swedlow, B. (2014). Advancing policy theory with cultural theory: An introduction to the special issue. Policy Studies Journal 42 (4), 465–483.
Toulmin, S. (1990). Cosmopolis: The hidden agenda of modernity. Chicago (IL): Chicago University Press.
Valsiner, J. (2020). Sensuality in human living: The cultural psychology of affect. Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London: Springer.
Valsiner, J., Marsico, G., Chaudhary, N., Sato, T., & Dazzani, V. (Eds.). (2016). Psychology as the science of human being. Annales of theoretical psychology. Heidelberg, New York, Dordrecht, London: Springer.
van Bavel, J., Baicker, K., Boggio, P. S., Capraro, V., Cichocka, A., Cikara, M., Crockett, M. J., Crum, A. J., Douglas, K. M., Druckman, J. N., Drury, J., Dube, O., Ellemers, N., Finkel, E. J., Fowler, J. H., Gelfand, M., Han, S., Haslam, S. A., Jetten, J. et al. (2020). Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response. Nature Human Behavior, 4, 460-471. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-0884-z.
Verweij, M., & Thompson, M. (Eds.). (2006). Clumsy solutions for a complex world: Governance, politics, and plural perceptions. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Voß, J. P., & Freeman, R. (Eds.). (2016). Knowing governance: The epistemic construction of political order. Heidelberg, New York, Dordrecht, London: Springer.
Vygotskij, L. S. (1986). Thought and language (A. Kozulin, rev. ed.). Cambridge (MA): The MIT Press (Original work published in 1934).
Watson, V. (2009). Seeing from the South: Refocusing urban planning on the Globe’s central urban issues. Urban Studies, 46(11), 2259–2275.
Wedeen, L., & Schatz, E. (2009). Political ethnography: What immersion contributes to the study of power. Chicago (ILL): Chicago UniversityPress.
Wildavsky, A. (1980). The art and craft of policy analysis. Basingstoke (UK): Macmillan.
Wildavsky, A. (1987). Choosing preferences by constructing institutions: A cultural theory of preference formation. American Political Science Review, 81(1), 3–21.
Zerubavel, E. (1999). Social mindscapes: An invitation to cognitive sociology. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press.
Znaniecki, F., & Thomas, W. I. (1918–1920). The polish peasant in Europe and America. Chicago (IL): Chicago University Press.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2021 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Cremaschi, M., Fioretti, C., Mannarini, T., Salvatore, S. (2021). The Cultural Framework in Action. In: Culture and Policy-Making. Culture in Policy Making: The Symbolic Universes of Social Action. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71967-8_9
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71967-8_9
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-71966-1
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-71967-8
eBook Packages: Social SciencesSocial Sciences (R0)