Making publics: immigrants, regimes of publicity and entry to ‘the public’

Staeheli, L.A.; Mitchell, D.; Nagel, C.R.

doi:10.1068/d6208

Making publics: immigrants, regimes of publicity and entry to ‘the public’

Staeheli, L.A.; Mitchell, D.; Nagel, C.R.

Authors

L.A. Staeheli

D. Mitchell

C.R. Nagel

Abstract

As groups struggle to gain visibility and voice in the public sphere and as new publics form, they may expand the sense of inclusiveness within a polity, but these new publics may also rub against broader, hegemonic ideals of ‘the’ public sphere. This paper utilises the concept of ‘regimes of publicity’ to explore how marginalised groups are included in the public. Regimes of publicity are the prevailing system of laws, practices, and relations that condition the qualities of a public and the ways that it is situated with respect to other publics. In exploring how publics might be formed and received, we focus on three interlinked elements of regimes of publicity—community and social norms, legitimacy, and the relations that constitute property—as they condition the strategies of activists and the resources that different agents and institutions bring to struggles over entry to the public. The argument we present highlights the ongoing nature of struggles for access to the public realm and the fragmented nature of the public.

Citation

Staeheli, L., Mitchell, D., & Nagel, C. (2009). Making publics: immigrants, regimes of publicity and entry to ‘the public’. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 27(4), 633-648. https://doi.org/10.1068/d6208

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	Jan 1, 2009
Deposit Date	Feb 3, 2012
Publicly Available Date	Jan 10, 2014
Journal	Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
Print ISSN	0263-7758
Electronic ISSN	1472-3433
Publisher	SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	27
Issue	4
Pages	633-648
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1068/d6208

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Staeheli, L.A. and Mitchell, D. and Nagel, C.R., 2009. The definitive peer-reviewed and edited version of this article is published in Environment and planning D : society and space, 27(4), 633-648, 2009, 10.1068/d6208