Francuskie metropolie jako przykład „władzy nieukończonej”. Wstęp do analizy kształtowania się metropolitalnych tożsamości politycznych we Francji
French metropolises as examples of the “incomplete power”. Introduction to the analysis of the shaping of metropolitan political identities in France

Author(s): Robert Pyka
Subject(s): Sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: Powszechny system ochrony praw człowieka. Podsumowanie dekadThe author makes an attempt at explaining the process of shaping of political identity of metropolitanareas that are regarded as a sign of “new territorialities”, emerging due to globalizationas well as metropolization of modern states. Also, the author emphasizes that following by democraticinstitutions (and thus political identity and subjectivity) the reforms of territorial structuresanctioning new areas of shaping social reality plays an important role in proper functioning ofthe democratic country. Modern France, as well as territorial reforms undertaken in 2010—2014,constitutes the area of analyses and inquiries. Using a constructivist concept of political identity,the author advances a thesis that citizens’ political identity is the aftermath of the emergence ofpolitical market — a space for debate, competition and rivalry, whose settlement comes with thepolitical power. The emergence of autonomic public space in metropolitan areas must thereforebe the result of the political power being located on this level. Since the “power of the metropolis”in France still remains incomplete, the metropolitan identity is at an early state of development.Nonetheless, the reform effected in 2014 by the MAPTAM act, as well as the transformation ofthe Metropolis of Lyon into a fully-fledged unit of territorial government prove that the empowermentof major urban and metropolitan areas has already become a constant vector of transformationswithin the French system of territorial organization, which will be accompanied withnew territorial political identities in the future.

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