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City in Change: Globalization, Local Politics and Urban Movements in Contemporary Stockholm

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  • Ulf Stahre

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In this article contemporary city change in Stockholm is first described against a background of theories on global cities. Stockholm cannot be seen as a global city, but displays many typical signs of the ongoing development in global cities. In the article this is shown by examining the situation in Stockholm regarding the economic structure, especially the expanding IT‐sector, social and economic polarization, local politics and the efforts to improve the infrastructure. In the change of the city social movements have been very active. Since the 1960s three different kinds of movements have existed, which are described and analysed against a background of theories on social movements. The first of these, the so‐called neighbourhood movement, emerged at the end of the 1960s and had all the typical signs of the so‐called ‘new’ social movements of that time. In the 1990s a new environmental movement acted mainly against proposed big traffic‐routes. This movement reflected in its structure some important features of today's society: fragmentation, individualization and globalization. At the end of the 1990s a third movement emerged as a reaction against the new competitive urban politics and the ongoing change of the city. Finally, the modifying impact that movements and local factors in Stockholm have had on globalization is discussed, as well as the difficulty in estimating the impact of movements on local politics. L'article décrit d'abord l'évolution urbaine contemporaine à Stockholm, en fonction des théories sur les villes planétaires. Même si la capitale suédoise n'est pas censée en faire partie, elle présente nombre des caractéristiques du développement actuel de ces grandes villes mondiales. L'article le montre en examinant sa situation en matière de structure économique (en particulier, l'expansion de son secteur technologique informatique), de polarisation sociale et économique, de politique locale et d'efforts d'amélioration des infrastructures. Les mouvements sociaux ont largement contribuéà l'évolution urbaine. Depuis 1960, ils sont intervenus sous trois formes, décrites et analysées par rapport aux théories des mouvements sociaux. La première, le ‘mouvement de quartier’, est apparue à la fin des années 1960 et présentait tous les signes typiques des dits ‘nouveaux’ mouvements sociaux de l'époque. Dans les années 1990, c'est un mouvement environnemental qui a agi surtout à l'encontre des grands itinéraires de circulation proposés, révélant par sa structure quelques caractéristiques importantes de la société actuelle: fragmentation, individualisation et mondialisation. A la fin des années 1990, un troisième mouvement est né en réaction à la nouvelle politique urbaine concurrentielle et à l'évolution vécue par la ville. Pour finir sont discutées l'incidence, sur la mondialisation, des mouvements et des facteurs locaux propres à Stockholm, ainsi que la difficulté d'évaluer l'impact des mouvements sur la politique locale.

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  • Ulf Stahre, 2004. "City in Change: Globalization, Local Politics and Urban Movements in Contemporary Stockholm," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 28(1), pages 68-85, March.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:ijurrs:v:28:y:2004:i:1:p:68-85
    DOI: 10.1111/j.0309-1317.2004.00503.x
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    1. Mitchell Reardon & Christian Dymén, 2015. "Towards the just city: Addressing poverty and social exclusion in the Stockholm Region," Local Economy, London South Bank University, vol. 30(7), pages 838-856, November.
    2. Jonathan Rutherford, 2014. "The Vicissitudes of Energy and Climate Policy in Stockholm: Politics, Materiality and Transition," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 51(7), pages 1449-1470, May.
    3. Esin Özdemir & Ayda Eraydin, 2017. "Fragmentation in Urban Movements: The Role of Urban Planning Processes," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 41(5), pages 727-748, September.
    4. William Sites, 2007. "Beyond Trenches and Grassroots? Reflections on Urban Mobilization, Fragmentation, and the Anti-Wal-Mart Campaign in Chicago," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 39(11), pages 2632-2651, November.
    5. Paul Routledge, 2010. "Introduction: Cities, Justice and Conflict," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 47(6), pages 1165-1177, May.
    6. Aidan While & David Gibbs & Andrew E G Jonas, 2013. "The Competition State, City-Regions, and the Territorial Politics of Growth Facilitation," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 45(10), pages 2379-2398, October.
    7. Badach Joanna Maria & Stasiak Anna & Baranowski Andrzej, 2018. "The role of urban movements in the process of local spatial planning and the development of participation mechanism," Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development, Sciendo, vol. 22(4), pages 187-196, December.

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