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Boudreau, Julie-Anne.

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Local autonomy movements in North American city-regions: Territorial strategies and the "local democracy" argument (California, Quebec, Ontario).

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Local autonomy movements in North American city-regions: Territorial strategies and the "local democracy" argument (California, Quebec, Ontario)./
作者:	Boudreau, Julie-Anne.
面頁冊數:	600 p.
附註:	Chair: Edward W. Soja.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-01A.
標題:	American Studies. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3076630
ISBN:	0493970622

Local autonomy movements in North American city-regions: Territorial strategies and the "local democracy" argument (California, Quebec, Ontario).
Boudreau, Julie-Anne.

Local autonomy movements in North American city-regions: Territorial strategies and the "local democracy" argument (California, Quebec, Ontario). - 600 p.

Chair: Edward W. Soja.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2003.

This dissertation explores three cases of local autonomy movements in North America as illustrations of the significant multiplication of the geographical scales at which claims to autonomy are made. Demands for secession from the City of Los Angeles, resistance to municipal mergers and threats of partition in Montreal, and resistance to municipal amalgamation and claims for city-regional autonomy in Toronto, are examples of the resurgence of local autonomy movements in the 1990s. In exploring why these movements are gaining in strength, this dissertation situates them in relation to one another and asks whether they represent an overall trend redefining the scales at which power is exercised. New sociospatial fragmenting trends are affecting city-regions across North America, creating important tensions, which are translated as public problems. In response, state reforms are implemented. In this context of state restructuring, a situation of territorial flux is created, encouraging the development of competing territorial strategies by social movements. As a result of new sociospatial fragmenting trends, civil society actors no longer feel properly represented by local institutions. They thus create new coalitions that better convey their identity, with the aim of shaping new institutions, hoping it will enhance democratic representation and governance efficiency. This strategically territorialized mobilization is further supported by two symbolic resources used by activists to legitimize their claims from local autonomy: ‘globalization’ and ‘local democracy’. Local democracy is posited as a counter force against globalization, which is a central symbol used by state actors to justify state reforms. These general trends take various forms, according to specific local reconfigurations of actors, local political opportunity structures, and local political cultures. In each case, localized effects of sociospatial fragmenting trends, combined with specifically local political events have modified access to institutions and reconfigured elite alignments, providing local autonomy movements with new leverage to challenge the existing power structure. Finally, variations in claims for local autonomy result from local political cultures, which influence the interpretation given to the symbolic resources of globalization and local democracy, and their degree of resonance in the public discourse.

ISBN: 0493970622Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017604
American Studies.

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