articles by Iren Eylül Karaoglu
Intercultural City Programme of Barcelona and Public Space: An Analysis of Problematisations and Policy Conceptualisations., Feb 22, 2024
Since 2008, the COE has been promoting interculturalism as a city-level integration policy model ... more Since 2008, the COE has been promoting interculturalism as a city-level integration policy model under the name Intercultural Cities Programme (ICC) to facilitate intercultural interaction, combat prejudice and discrimination, and enhance inclusion and social cohesion. The member cities within the Intercultural City Network have developed several policy programme activities to create open and inclusive cities. These programmes present diversity as a challenge that needs to be managed and, at the same time, as an advantage that would increase economic growth. The concrete actions and objectives of these policy programmes include managing and creating public spaces that facilitate peaceful encounters, inclusion, and convivencia. Since policies are usually designed to address problems, it is important to investigate what the problems are perceived to be. Accordingly, by adopting Carol Bacchi's (2009) WPR (What is the Problem Represented to Be?) approach in policy analysis as an analytical framework, through semi-structured interviews and content analysis, this article illuminates how public spaces are conceived and represented in the Barcelona ICC program in relation to solving its inherent problematisations. The findings suggest that the ICC program conceives public spaces as settings of conflict that have to be managed through intercultural policy interventions, neglecting the complexity and multi-actor characteristic of the social construction and production of space.
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Thesis Chapters by Iren Eylül Karaoglu
INTERCULTURAL CITIES, CONVIVENCIA AND PUBLIC SPACES: PERSPECTIVES OF POLICYMAKERS, POLICY IMPLEMENTERS AND TARGET GROUPS OF BARCELONA INTERCULTURALITY PLAN, 2024
This Ph.D. thesis is a compilation of three articles that aim to contribute to a deeper understan... more This Ph.D. thesis is a compilation of three articles that aim to contribute to a deeper understanding of the intercultural policies by focusing on the perspectives of different actors about urban encounters and public spaces, studying the case of Barcelona Interculturality Plan which is a city-level urban integration policy. The research is based on a qualitative case study conducted between December 2020 and February 2022 in Barcelona, the capital of the autonomous community of Catalonia, of which 27.8% of the total population is foreign-born. This policy analysis provides empirical evidence about how the Intercultural City Programme is implemented on the ground as well as perspectives of different groups in relation to it. The first article explores the policymakers’ perspective dealing with how public spaces are conceived and represented in the Barcelona ICC Programme in relation to solving its inherent problematizations. The second article illuminates how the Barcelona ICC Program is implemented in practice and compares the inherent problem representations of policymakers and policy implementers about convivencia and public spaces. The third article analyses the target groups’ conceptions and experiences of convivencia and public spaces in relation to the initiatives of the ICC Programme as implemented in Barcelona. This thesis was an effort to dig into the black box of the urban integration policy (i.e. Intercultural City Program) and highlight the complex variety among different perspectives on the socio-spatial dynamics.
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