Image of the city between consensus and tension: six Serbian cases
Апстракт
Starting from the concept of urban identity, defined as a set of unique features characterizing a city/town that set it apart from others and ensure its continuous recognizability, the paper takes the example of six urban centers in Serbia (Kragujevac, Sabac, Uzice, Novi Pazar, Sombor and Zrenjanin) to examine the degree of consensus or divergence concerning these identities. Three dimensions i.e three kinds of tension that can arise within, or in relation to, the established image of the locality are singled out: 1) Crystallization: is a given urban identity clearly embodied in a single symbol, and how coherent are the meanings of the constituent symbolic elements? 2) Contention: is the city image disputed among various social groups within its population? 3) Comparisons: how do these urban identities relate to other urban centers and their respective identities? The analysis is based on quantitative and qualitative data collected during 2013 and 2014 within the project" Characteristi...cs of Territorial Capital in Serbia" of the Institute for Sociological Research, Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade.
Кључне речи:
Zrenjanin / Uzice / Sombor / Sabac / Novi Pazar / local identity / Kragujevac / image of the cityИзвор:
Sociologija, 2016, 58, 210-231Издавач:
- Sociološko udruženje Srbije i Crne Gore, Beograd i Univerzitet u Beogradu - Filozofski fakultet - Institut za sociološka istraživanja, Beograd
Финансирање / пројекти:
- Изазови нове друштвене интеграције у Србији: концепти и актери (RS-MESTD-Basic Research (BR or ON)-179035)
DOI: 10.2298/SOC16S1210B
ISSN: 0038-0318
WoS: 000416987300002
Scopus: 2-s2.0-84965005886
Институција/група
Sociologija / SociologyTY - JOUR AU - Backović, Vera AU - Spasić, Ivana PY - 2016 UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/2206 AB - Starting from the concept of urban identity, defined as a set of unique features characterizing a city/town that set it apart from others and ensure its continuous recognizability, the paper takes the example of six urban centers in Serbia (Kragujevac, Sabac, Uzice, Novi Pazar, Sombor and Zrenjanin) to examine the degree of consensus or divergence concerning these identities. Three dimensions i.e three kinds of tension that can arise within, or in relation to, the established image of the locality are singled out: 1) Crystallization: is a given urban identity clearly embodied in a single symbol, and how coherent are the meanings of the constituent symbolic elements? 2) Contention: is the city image disputed among various social groups within its population? 3) Comparisons: how do these urban identities relate to other urban centers and their respective identities? The analysis is based on quantitative and qualitative data collected during 2013 and 2014 within the project" Characteristics of Territorial Capital in Serbia" of the Institute for Sociological Research, Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade. PB - Sociološko udruženje Srbije i Crne Gore, Beograd i Univerzitet u Beogradu - Filozofski fakultet - Institut za sociološka istraživanja, Beograd T2 - Sociologija T1 - Image of the city between consensus and tension: six Serbian cases EP - 231 SP - 210 VL - 58 DO - 10.2298/SOC16S1210B ER -
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Backović, V.,& Spasić, I.. (2016). Image of the city between consensus and tension: six Serbian cases. in Sociologija Sociološko udruženje Srbije i Crne Gore, Beograd i Univerzitet u Beogradu - Filozofski fakultet - Institut za sociološka istraživanja, Beograd., 58, 210-231. https://doi.org/10.2298/SOC16S1210B
Backović V, Spasić I. Image of the city between consensus and tension: six Serbian cases. in Sociologija. 2016;58:210-231. doi:10.2298/SOC16S1210B .
Backović, Vera, Spasić, Ivana, "Image of the city between consensus and tension: six Serbian cases" in Sociologija, 58 (2016):210-231, https://doi.org/10.2298/SOC16S1210B . .