Abstract
ABSTRACT This paper emphasizes the role of informal and ad hoc processes in policy-mobility by analyzing “creative city” policy in two relatively marginalized and neglected urban contexts– Gdańsk (Poland) and Stockholm (Sweden). The paper extends studies of “creative city” policy to diversify understandings of policy mobilities as a “social condition” in which territorial and relational aspects are combined as cities “arrive at” mobile policy, to contribute to provincializing urban theory and comparative urban analyses. Extending recent literature emphasizing the role of formal “informational infrastructures” in understanding policy mobilities this paper develops new insights into: the ways in which informal and ad hoc processes co-exist with and are important for the operation of formal processes; what the learning process in cities actually looks like in different contexts; and the role of individuals in policy-making as a social condition. The Conclusion draws out the wider implications of these points for understanding policy mobilities.
Highlights
This paper develops an emphasis on the role of more informal and ad hoc processes in policy-mobility by analysing the development of ‘creative city’
Studying how cities in the Global South ‘arrive at’ mobile creative city policy has been instrumental in opening up an understanding of the different processes at play
2015; Nkula-Wenz, 2018; Sö derströ m and Geertman, 2013). We address these issues through the study of how cities arrive at mobile ‘creative city’ policy in two different and relatively marginalised urban contexts – Gdańsk and Stockholm
Summary
In doing so we develop recent calls to extend the range of actors considered (Baker et al, 2019; Temenos et al, 2019; Ward, 2018) in analyses of how cities change themselves to ‘arrive at’ globally-mobile policy (Robinson, 2015), in order to extend understanding of the embodied social labour which makes policy mobilities happen (Temenos et al, 2019; Ward, 2018) To do this the analysis extends understandings of the role of relatively neglected informal practices and processes and how they mutually support the more studied formal parts of the ‘informational infrastructures’ Recognising that those who make policy accumulate expertise and knowledge over the course of their working life (Larner & Laurie, 2010; Craggs and Neate, 2016) avoids the presentism trap in analysis
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