This paper questions the ‘seeing like a city’ vs. ‘seeing like a state’ opposition through a detailed discussion of urban politics in the city of Paris, France, a prime example of the ways in which the national remains a driving dimension of city life. This claim is examined by a consideration of the shortcomings of Paris’s recent and timid commitment local democracy, lacking recognition of the diversity of its citizens, and the ways in which the inclusion of more women in decision-making arenas has failed to advance the ‘feminization of politics’. A common factor in these defining features of the Hidalgo administration seems to be the prevalence of ‘femonationalism’ and its influence over municipal policy-making.

本文通过详细讨论法国巴黎市的城市政治问题来质疑“像城市一样看”与“像国家一样看”的反对，这是国民仍然是城市驱动因素的一个典型例子。生活。通过考虑巴黎最近和怯commitment的地方民主的缺点，缺乏对公民多样性的认识以及在决策领域中吸收更多妇女来推动“女性化”的方式，对这一主张进行了审查。政治”。伊达尔戈政府具有这些决定性特征的一个共同因素似乎是“民族主义”的盛行及其对市政政策制定的影响。