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URBANITIES Journal of Urban Ethnography Volume 9 • Supplement 2 • April 2019 Edited by Italo Pardo and Giuliana B. Prato Sponsored by the International Urban Symposium-IUS ISSN 2239-5725 Special Issue — Edited by I. Pardo and G. B. Prato Urbanities, Vol. 9 · Supplement 2 · April 2019 On Legitimacy: Multidisciplinary Reflections © 2019 Urbanities Editors: Copyright © 2019 Urbanities Urbanities grants free and unrestricted access to the Italo Pardo, University of Kent, U.K. journal’s content for scientific, educational, non- Jerome Krase, Brooklyn College, commercial and non-promotional purposes. All City University of New York, U.S.A. peer-reviewed articles and other authored contributions are protected by copyright. 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Prato Urbanities, Vol. 9 · Supplement 2 · April 2019 On Legitimacy: Multidisciplinary Reflections © 2019 Urbanities Contents Special Issue. On Legitimacy: Multidisciplinary Reflections. Edited by Italo Pardo and Giuliana B. Prato. Introduction: Debating Legitimacy 3 Italo Pardo and Giuliana B. Prato The Assessment of Legitimacy in the 21st Century 13 Niccolo Caldararo A Modest Rejoinder from a Historian 25 Peter Jones Competing Sources of Museum Legitimacy: Dominant, Residual and Emergent Definitions 29 Bella Dicks Legitimacy, Urban Violence and the Public Health Approach 37 James Rosbrook-Thompson Notes on Legitimacy 44 Daina Cheyenne Harvey Legitimacy and Citizenships 52 Anna Waldstein The ‘Eskimo Problem’: Legitimizing Canadian Arctic Administration, 1960-1975 61 Pamela Stern Legitimacy, Placemaking Claims and Urban Cross-boundaries 67 Andrés Salcedo Failed Neighbourhood Legitimacy: Alternative Transportation and Sanitation Services in North Brooklyn 77 Judith N. DeSena Legitimacy in Conviviality – Learning from Legitimacy: Ethnographic and Theoretical Insights 83 Motoji Matsuda An Ethnography of Filmscapes: Borders of the Legal and the Legitimate 87 Ebru Thwaites Diken From the Bearable to the Unbearable: How the Legitimate Becomes Illegitimate 96 with the Transformation of Capitalism Corine Vedrine Reflections on Legitimacy 103 Karolina Moretti Public Space, Legitimacy and Democracy 111 Julian Brash 1 Special Issue — Edited by I. Pardo and G. B. Prato Urbanities, Vol. 9 · Supplement 2 · April 2019 On Legitimacy: Multidisciplinary Reflections © 2019 Urbanities Trust and Legitimacy in Hungary 119 László Kürti Rethinking Descriptivism and Explanation in Legitimacy Debate: Highlighting the Role of Causal Process(es) in Ethnographic Theory 133 Michalis Christodoulou Notes on Contributors 141 2 Special Issue — Edited by I. Pardo and G. B. Prato Urbanities, Vol. 9 · Supplement 2 · April 2019 On Legitimacy: Multidisciplinary Reflections © 2019 Urbanities Introduction: Debating Legitimacy Italo Pardo Giuliana B. Prato (University of Kent) [email protected] [email protected] Ethnographic research on the dynamics of legitimacy and legitimation is clearly both timely and futuristic, the latter adjective being justified by the foreseeable developments — too often, very worrying — of these dynamics across the democratic world. This Special Issue, published as a Supplement to Urbanities, springs from this belief. It is intended to enrich the ongoing multidisciplinary discussion. It offers to the readers of Urbanities this Introduction to the debate and sixteen essays by anthropologists, sociologists, historians and urbanists who draw on their diverse ethnographic knowledge and wide-ranging perspectives to address the thorny issue of legitimacy in response to the book on Legitimacy: Ethnographic and Theoretical Insights (henceforth, Legitimacy volume) recently published by Palgrave Macmillan in the Series ‘Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology’. The book is a direct result of an intensive six-day workshop held in Sicily in September 2017.1 It brings together the work of a strong field of fourteen social scientists. An introductory essay on the ‘Methodological and Theoretical Issues of Legitimacy’ (Italo Pardo and Giuliana B. Prato) is followed by chapters on ‘The Legitimacy of Political Representation: Institutional Adaptations to Challenges from Urban Europe’ (Giuliana B. Prato); ‘A Conundrum of Democracy: Naples as a Test Case of Governance that Lacks Legitimacy’ (Italo Pardo); ‘Unemployment, Urban Poverty and Political Legitimacy: The Dark Side of Governance’ (Manos Spyridakis); ‘Legal but not Legitimate: Changing Practices of Financial Citizenship in Turkey’ (Z. Nurdan Atalay); ‘Changing Ideas of Legitimacy in Neighbourhoods: Reflections from a Town in Kerala’ (Janaki Abraham); ‘Privatization of Urban Governance and the Disputes for Legitimacy in a Social Housing Megaproject in Soacha, Colombia’ (Adriana Hurtado Tarazona); ‘Undermining Governmental Legitimacy at the Grass Roots: The Role of Failed Promises and Inflated Expectations of Community Accountability’ (Jerome Krase and Kathryn Krase); ‘Detachment and Commitment in the Competing Legitimacies Surrounding the Ephemeral Opposition to the Redesign of Viger Square, Montreal–Quebec’ (Nathalie Boucher); ‘In or Out? Claims and Practices of Legitimacy in Urban East Africa’ (Lucy Koechlin); ‘Citizenship and Legitimacy in India: Kolkata’s Anglo-Indian Experiences’ (Robyn Andrews); ‘Conflicting Loyalties and Legitimate Illegality in Urban South Lebanon’ (Marcello Mollica); ‘Mourning Through Protest in Seoul: Debates over Governance, Morality and Legitimacy after the Sewŏl Ferry Disaster’ (Liora Sarfati); and ‘Morality, Ethics and Legitimacy: The Roma and their Legitimization of Power Relations in Everyday Life’ (Zdenek Uherek). 1 The workshop benefited from a generous grant from the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (Gr. CONF-751) and the organizational support of the International