The game of participation in Amsterdam East: an alternative to the neoliberal or a neoliberal alternative

Z. Kovacs; Peer Smets; Halleh Ghorashi

doi:10.1007/978-981-13-1531-2_7

The game of participation in Amsterdam East: an alternative to the neoliberal or a neoliberal alternative

Z. Kovacs, Peer Smets, Halleh Ghorashi

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With a point of departure in a Bourdieusian framework, the chapter studies dynamics between participatory policymaking and the citizenry’s political agency in a gentrifying neighborhood in Amsterdam East. The analysis shows that gentrifiers, through their community building efforts and resourcefulness, are capable of creating political opportunities for the citizenry to become co-producers in the field of local policy implementation; this enabled social mobility and a creation of a civic democratic culture. At the same time, this alternative field of participation is not immune to reproducing effects related to gentrification and voluntarism.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Enabling Urban Alternatives
Subtitle of host publication	Crises, Contestation, and Cooperation
Editors	Jens Kaae Fisker, Letizia Chiappini, Lee Pugalis, Antonella Bruzzese
Place of Publication	Singapore
Publisher	Palgrave McMillan
Chapter	7
Pages	133-155
Number of pages	23
ISBN (Electronic)	9789811315312
ISBN (Print)	9789811315305
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1531-2_7
Publication status	Published - 2019

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The game of participation in Amsterdam East: an alternative to the neoliberal or a neoliberal alternative. / Kovacs, Z.; Smets, Peer ; Ghorashi, Halleh.
Enabling Urban Alternatives: Crises, Contestation, and Cooperation. ed. / Jens Kaae Fisker; Letizia Chiappini; Lee Pugalis; Antonella Bruzzese. Singapore: Palgrave McMillan, 2019. p. 133-155.

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