TY - JOUR
T1 - “I refer to it as throwing wads”
T2 - strategic use of multiple normative orders to manage touristification of consumption spaces in Amsterdam
AU - Hagemans, Iris W.
AU - Spierings, Bas
AU - Weltevreden, Jesse
AU - Hooimeijer, Pieter
N1 - Theme issue: Legal pluralism in the urban realm.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - As multifunctional places that combine shopping and hospitality with public space and residential functions, urban consumption spaces are sites where different normative orders surface and sometimes clash. In Amsterdam, such a clash emerged over touristification of consumption spaces, eroding place attachment for local residents and urging the city government to take action. Based on policy analysis and interviews with entrepreneurs and key informants, we demonstrate how Amsterdam’s city government is responding to this issue, using legal pluralism that exists within formal state law. Specifically, the city government combines four instruments to manage touristification of consumption spaces, targeting so-called tourist shops with the aim to drive them out of the inner city. This strategic combination of policy instruments designed on various scales and for different publics to pursue a local political goal jeopardizes entrepreneurs’ rights to legal certainty. Moreover, implicitly based on class-based tastes and distrust towards particular minority groups of entrepreneurs, this policy strategy results in institutional discrimination that has far-reaching consequences for entrepreneurs in itself, but also affects trust relations among local stakeholders.
AB - As multifunctional places that combine shopping and hospitality with public space and residential functions, urban consumption spaces are sites where different normative orders surface and sometimes clash. In Amsterdam, such a clash emerged over touristification of consumption spaces, eroding place attachment for local residents and urging the city government to take action. Based on policy analysis and interviews with entrepreneurs and key informants, we demonstrate how Amsterdam’s city government is responding to this issue, using legal pluralism that exists within formal state law. Specifically, the city government combines four instruments to manage touristification of consumption spaces, targeting so-called tourist shops with the aim to drive them out of the inner city. This strategic combination of policy instruments designed on various scales and for different publics to pursue a local political goal jeopardizes entrepreneurs’ rights to legal certainty. Moreover, implicitly based on class-based tastes and distrust towards particular minority groups of entrepreneurs, this policy strategy results in institutional discrimination that has far-reaching consequences for entrepreneurs in itself, but also affects trust relations among local stakeholders.
KW - touristification
KW - consumption spaces
KW - entrepreneurship
KW - legal certainty
KW - institutional discrimination
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85185465318&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/27706869.2024.2316460
DO - 10.1080/27706869.2024.2316460
M3 - Article
SN - 2770-6877
VL - 56
SP - 128
EP - 148
JO - Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis
JF - Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis
IS - 1
ER -