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Saeed Bin Mohammed
Liberal Governmentality and Urban Culture: Governing Differences and Diversity in the Policies of Helsinki and Sydney
This article uses Michel Foucault’s understanding of police and liberalism to discuss the governance of diversity and differences, and how they appear as a regulatory form of power in urban cultural policy. The data consists of interviews conducted with policymakers in Helsinki and Sydney. The article asserts that the policing of cultural spaces of encounter at the city level is not limited to the regulatory practices and controls that produce a sense of safety and order for citizens in the city. This governance has great significance for representing excluded people and the socioeconomic identity of their neighborhoods. Finally, the use of language as a means of communication in cultural p…
Cosmopolitan internationalism: UNESCO’s ideological ambiguity and the difference/diversity problematic
This article addresses the ways in which UNESCO’s ideological engagements are negotiated in the difference/diversity discourse as they are transferred from the international standard-setting level to the national and local contexts. It proposes the discursive construction of cosmopolitan internationalism as a framework for analysing the intersections of difference, located in the practicalities of internationalism, and diversity, tied to the ideals of cosmopolitanism, as they are manifested at the level of both the implementation of UNESCO’s Diversity Convention and urban policy making in the city of Sydney. The analysis suggests that ruptures challenging the homogenising diversity discours…
Re-Thinking the global cosmopolis : an analysis of the un-habitat “city we need” policies in Helsinki And Sydney
This paper contributes to the sustainability debates concerning the UN Habitat III agenda for 2030 of “leaving no one behind.” I mainly focus on how the ideas of the classical cosmopolis are manifested in contemporary urban policies and strategies. I seek to discuss the similarities between the ancient Greek Cynics’ and Stoics’ concept of cosmopolis and the one more or less explicitly expressed in the UN-Habitat manifesto The City We Need 2.0: Towards a New Urban Paradigm, for explaining/showing/understanding. I do so by examining specific case examples based on the UN-Habitat manifesto: the City of Sydney (A City for All: Towards a Socially Just and Resilient Sydney) and the City of Helsin…
Migration, cultural sustainability, and integration : a discourse analysis of multiculturalism and migration in Canada and Finland
The aim of this thesis is to assess how the discoursesof migration and multiculturalism arebeendepicted in the Finnish and Canadian policy documents. This was assessed by using the concept of governmentality and multiculturalism as the theoretical framework of the study. The concept of governmentality was used as a background to examine and interpret power relations and discourses in the data and how they influence contemporarydebate in these societies. The result was analysedqualitatively using theoretical –discourse analysis. And the analysis of the study was mainly based on the integration policy documents from Finland and Canada. The result of the study indicated that both Canada and Fi…
Cosmopolitanism as a Potential Theoretical Solution to the Challenges of Globalised Urbanisation
This paper contributes to the effort to formulate strategies for approaching the challenges of twenty-first century “globalised urbanisation.” The paper hypothesises that cosmopolitanism might be seen as an option when trying to understand and resolve problems associated with globalised urbanisation within the scope of the United Nations’ Habitat III policy framework. In the context of the United Nations’ Habitat III (New Urban Agenda) policy framework, culture and cultural diversity are recognised as sources of enrichment for humanity and provide an important contribution to the sustainability of cities (UN-Habitat 2016:4). In addition, the policy framework supports the core aspect of cosm…
Governance of urban culture in the era of globalization : an analysis of international policy discourses and cosmopolitan case-examples
Tässä väitöskirjassa keskitytään siihen, miten kaupungit ja globaalit hallinnolliset instituutiot pyrkivät hallinnoimaan ja organisoimaan kulttuuria kosmopoliittisissa kaupunkiympäristöissä. Tähän kontekstiin liittyvää tutkimusta tehdään kahdessa eri ympäristössä: kansainvälisissä organisaatioissa, kuten Unescossa ja UN-Habitatissa, sekä paikallisissa kaupunkiympäristöissä ja -linjauksissa, esimerkiksi Sydneyssä ja Helsingissä. Tässä tutkimuksessa kaupunkikulttuurien sääntelyä tarkastellaan foucault’laisen hallinnallisuuden ja kosmopolitanismin viitekehyksistä. Tällä tavoin voidaan hahmottaa globaalien linjausten ja säädösten merkitystä ja vaikutusta kaupunkien päätöksentekoon kulttuuria ko…