Fler delar staden Much achieved, but bigger challenges to come Phil Wood
Climate change and drought intensification
World conflicts, 2015
realities collide
exclusion exclusion
Global income growth over the last three decades The Elephant in the Room
CULTURE ECONOMICS
How come they noticed before others did?
But we anticipated it too
a new policy for new times
Multicultural city policy
welfare chauvinism
Intercultural city policy
Intercultural policy
Intercultural policy
Tolerance Is not enough
IT WON T HAPPEN BY ACCIDENT There need to be: Reasons to interact Incentives to interact Places, institutions agents and tools of interaction
Diversity Advantage From people with NEEDS
To people with RESOURCES
A new approach to the issue of refugees and asylum seekers Stop warehousing people
The first place to help refugees is at source, not by moral grandstanding in Europe
Zaatari refugee camp, Jordan 80,000 Syrian refugees None are allowed to work
Refugee Inclusion
1 : 1 State / community sponsorship Can Sweden adopt this approach?
THE NEW AGENDA
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EQUALITY DIVERSITY INTERACTION
EQUALITY egalitarian individualism reciprocal recognition impartial treatment anti-discrimination BUT mediocrity/groupthink can not or can do?
DIVERSITY resilience & vitality innovation advantage BUT exacerbates identity politics undermines solidarity
INTERACTION empathy co-creation active citizenship BUT shallow transactional power relations
EQUALITY DIVERSITY INTERACTION
Seduce Don t blame
en kort omväg genom sverige
Sweden The Integration Paradox
Sweden (83) Portugal (79) Canada (72) Finland (69) Netherlands (68) Belgium (67) Norway (66) Spain (63) USA (62) Italy (60) Luxembourg (59) Germany (57) United Kingdom (57) Denmark (53) France (51) Greece (49) Ireland (49) Slovenia (49) Czech Republic (46) Estonia (46) Hungary (45) Romania (45) Switzerland (43) Austria (42) Poland (42) Bulgaria (41) Lithuania (40) Malta (37) Slovakia (36) Cyprus (35) Latvia (31)
STATIST INDIVIDUALISM- A new Swedish religion?
Right now there is lots of talk about refugees, and so much talk about the cost of immigration. Too often, migrants end up in our suburbs, not integrated. Sweden is a very segregated country with too much distance between us and them. Instead, we should see the values which come with them their social skills and the human value of their lifestyles as something that could really help us from the tendency to detachment.
Uppgivenhetssyndrom Is it telling us something about the nature of asylum, or something about the nature of Sweden?
We are living in an interregnum. The old system and rules are discredited but the new order is yet to emerge. Zygmunt Bauman
Social justice & redistribution! Reverse inequality! Defend human rights! Create more rights! The Left critique of Neoliberalism Family, community, nation! Belonging, identity, roots! Duty and civility! Respect the past! The Right critique of Neoliberalism
Swedes feel like their society is being torn apart by a clash of incompatible ideologies
Searching for a new form of
Too much exclusive solidarity Too little inclusive solidarity
How can we build new inclusive forms of solidarity out of multiple and mobile identities within a human rights context?
Solidarity Inclusion is a feeling of belonging. That is if you feel like a Copenhagener, you are included in the city. Anna Mee Allerslev 62
The city gives us unity and identity in a complex divisive world 63
Where do universal human rights begin? Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal rights without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have In small places, close to home. They are the world of the individual; the neighbourhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Eleanor Roosevelt little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.
QUESTIONS What keeps a liberal democracy together? What happens when the moral operating system is put under pressure? What happens when a Trump or Orban works on people's emotions and fears? What happens when the local virtues are challenged by universalist values like human rights?
THE ORDINARY VIRTUES The virtues of ordinary people Trust, generosity, tolerance, forgiveness, resilience. Preference for the local over the universal, citizen over stranger, community over cosmopolitan, the we over the other. The moral operating system that keeps the show on the road
Universal Human Rights have made a better world, but cannot make better communities Don t preach at people about their obligation to absorb strangers Appeal to their Ordinary Virtues of Hospitality
Intercultural Cities offers an alternative to this impasse
REGIONAL & LOCAL NATIONAL SUPRANATIONAL
A NEW ALIGNMENT OF RESPONSIBILITIES National authorities Maintain comprehensive systems of social justice Supranational authorities protect universal human rights and manage global migrant flows Municipal authorities Provide an alternative political space of solidarity and citizenship Communities Offer humanity, hospitality and groundedness
What does citizenship mean in a globalized world?
Who belongs in the city?
Who has presence in the city?
Who owns the city but is not present?
Who belongs in the city?
Who has a right to the city?
THE RIGHT TO THE CITY IN SEARCH OF URBAN CITIZENSHIP
The right to urban citizenship
The city can be the place where universal values & the ordinary virtues become as one. 87
Key issues Support refugees closer to source Rights & justice A new solidarity built on diversity Welcoming Spaces of interaction Let them work Let them create work New alignment of state responsibilities Urban citizenship
Tack! Phil Wood