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LegitimacyDetachment and Commitment to Legitimacy: The Case of Viger Square in Montreal

Legitimacy: Detachment and Commitment to Legitimacy: The Case of Viger Square in Montreal [The City of Montréal is dismantling the Viger Square, whose layout and the presence of homeless persons have been passionately debated since the 1980s, when the abandoned Victorian park was converted into a modern space. Since 2008, Boucher has been involved as a participant-observer in initiatives by the Group-with-no-name to save the Square. Its activities exemplify the establishment and maintenance of legitimacy by a social group with social capital. Through lobbyism, the Group has engaged in a fine play of detachment and commitment that contributes to the establishment of the legitimacy of those involved. Here legitimacy emerges as a dynamic concept that relies on the perception of others but also works in opposition with others’ legitimacy, hence the concept of competing legitimacy.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

LegitimacyDetachment and Commitment to Legitimacy: The Case of Viger Square in Montreal

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology Book Series
Editors: Pardo, Italo; Prato, Giuliana B.
Boucher, Nathalie
Legitimacy — Oct 18, 2018
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
ISBN
978-3-319-96237-5
Pages
193 –215
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-96238-2_9
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Abstract

[The City of Montréal is dismantling the Viger Square, whose layout and the presence of homeless persons have been passionately debated since the 1980s, when the abandoned Victorian park was converted into a modern space. Since 2008, Boucher has been involved as a participant-observer in initiatives by the Group-with-no-name to save the Square. Its activities exemplify the establishment and maintenance of legitimacy by a social group with social capital. Through lobbyism, the Group has engaged in a fine play of detachment and commitment that contributes to the establishment of the legitimacy of those involved. Here legitimacy emerges as a dynamic concept that relies on the perception of others but also works in opposition with others’ legitimacy, hence the concept of competing legitimacy.]

Published: Oct 18, 2018

Keywords: Legitimacy; Victory Park; Homeless Persons; Centre Hospitalier De l’Université De Montréal (CHUM); Underground Highway

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