Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to explore problematisations of urban diversity in urban and integration policies in Denmark and Sweden; the paper aims to show how such policies express social imaginaries about the self and the other and underlying assumptions of sameness that legitimise diverging ways of managing urban diversity and (re)organising the city.

Design/methodology/approach

Inspired by anthropology of policy and post-structural approaches to policy analysis, the authors approach urban and integration policies as cultural texts that are central to the organisation of cities and societies. With a comparative approach, the authors explore how visions of diversity take shape and develop over time in Swedish and Danish policies on urban development and integration.

Findings

Swedish policy constructs productiveness as crucial to the imagined national sameness, whereas Danish policy constructs cultural sameness as fundamental to the national self-image. By constructing the figure of “the unproductive”/“the non-Western” as the other, diverging from an imagined sameness, policies for organising the city through removing and “improving” urban diverse others are legitimised.

Originality/value

The authors add to previous research by focussing on the construction of the self as crucial in processes of othering and by highlighting how both nationalistic and colour-blind policy discourses construct myths of national sameness, which legitimise the governing of urban diversity. The authors highlight and de-naturalise assumptions and categorisations by showing how problem representations differ over time and between two neighbouring countries.

中文翻译：

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通过民族相同的神话管理城市多样性——丹麦和瑞典的比较分析

目的

本文的目的是探讨丹麦和瑞典城市和一体化政策中城市多样性的问题；该论文旨在展示这些政策如何表达关于自我和他人的社会想象，以及使管理城市多样性和（重新）组织城市的不同方式合法化的基本假设。

设计/方法/方法

受政策人类学和政策分析的后结构方法的启发，作者将城市和一体化政策视为对城市和社会组织至关重要的文化文本。通过比较方法，作者探讨了多元化愿景如何在瑞典和丹麦的城市发展和一体化政策中随着时间的推移而形成和发展。

发现

瑞典政策将生产力构建为对想象中的民族同一性至关重要，而丹麦政策将文化同一性构建为民族自我形象的基础。通过将“非生产者”/“非西方”的形象构建为他者，与想象中的同一性不同，通过消除和“改善”城市多样化的其他人来组织城市的政策是合法的。

原创性/价值

作者通过将自我构建作为他者化过程中的关键，并强调民族主义和色盲政策话语如何构建民族同一性神话，从而使城市多样性的治理合法化，从而增加了先前的研究。作者通过展示问题表示随时间和两个邻国之间的差异来突出和去自然化假设和分类。