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Accepted Paper:

Networks of cities, circulation of expertise: an understanding of the mobility of participatory budgeting from Latin America to Europe  
Isabelle Dedieu (King's College London)

Paper short abstract:

Paper long abstract:

The paper aims to contribute to debates on the mobilities of policies (Peck, 2011, 2012; McCann, 2007, 2012; Ward and McCann 2011) by providing a detailed empirical study focused on how mobilities and fixities of policies occur. It seeks to provide empirical description of the organising of a particular learning network or 'translocal assemblage' (McFarlane 2011) and to deploy an understanding of intricacies of learning such as training and the creation of an organisational memory. The network of cities researched here is part of a wider European Union programme called URB-al that consists in a series of thematic networks of Latin American and European cities and experts around urban issues. The paper investigates the fabrics of one particular network of cities on participatory budgeting that involves a wide range of actors (city officials, civil servants, academics, members of social movement and NGO's). Drawing upon theories of governmentality (Foucault 1976) and translation (Callon 1986; Latour 2005), the paper explores what it is traveling (Policies? Best practices? Accounts of practices and experiences?) and how it is traveling. Drawing upon an ethnographic of circulations (Lesley 2006; Roy 2012) based on a multi-sited fieldwork, interviews, short thicker observations at training, events and observatories, and document analyses, the research will interrogate the various circuits, spaces, actors, moments and modalities that aim to lubricate the mobility of ideas and facilitate learning.

Panel P40
Latin American cities
  Session 1