In this article we introduce a pragmatist interpretation of agonistic pluralism and develop this into an analytical framework that is applied to the analysis of urban conflicts. In the article, we take stock of contemporary critical and radical urban scholarship, our aim being twofold. First, we substantiate Chantal Mouffe's notion of agonistic pluralism with tools from French pragmatic sociology. We suggest that, in a democracy, plurality emerges both as a plurality of conflict manifested in the variety of possible ways to identify injustices, and formulate and justify claims in public struggles, and a plurality of commonality, manifested in different logics by which a ‘we’ can be formed and action coordinated so as to solve issues without resorting to physical violence. Secondly, by applying the developed conceptualization of plurality to an ongoing urban conflict concerning an airport, we showcase the value of the approach for identifying and analyzing different forms and phases of actually existing political conflicts, and for recognizing their meaning for democracy.

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城市政治的多元化：莫夫和泰维诺的冲突与共性

在本文中，我们介绍了对竞争性多元化的实用主义解释，并将其发展为应用于城市冲突分析的分析框架。在本文中，我们评估了当代批判性和激进的城市学术，我们的目标是双重的。首先，我们用法国实用社会学的工具证实尚塔尔·莫菲的竞争多元主义概念。我们认为，在民主国家，多元性既表现为多种冲突，表现为多种可能的方式来识别不公正，并在公共斗争中提出和证明主张的合理性，也表现为多元性的共性。体现在不同的逻辑中，通过这些逻辑可以形成“我们”并协调行动，从而在不诉诸身体暴力的情况下解决问题。其次，通过将发展起来的多元化概念应用于与机场有关的持续城市冲突，我们展示了该方法在识别和分析实际存在的政治冲突的不同形式和阶段以及认识其对民主的意义方面的价值。