Remaking Community?

New Labour and the Governance of Poor Neighbourhoods

Andrew Wallace (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

172 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-25154-0 (ISBN)

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New Labour deployed community as a conceptual framework to rearticulate the state / citizen relationship to be enacted at and through new spaces of governance. An important example of this was how successive New Labour governments sought to renovate the social, political and economic cultures of poor neighbourhoods and generate trajectories of strong, empowered and ordered civic space. This was pursued through programmes such as the New Deal for Communities (NDC) that sought to invigorate and embed socially excluded citizens within localised regeneration projects. In attempting to construct community as a space through which personal and spatial renewal could be achieved, New Labour relied on problematic assumptions about the nature, scope and meaning of community and its relationship with individual social agents. Drawing on original research conducted in an NDC neighbourhood, Remaking Community addresses the interlinking uses of community in government rhetoric and practice. It explores why this concept was so central to the New Labour governing project and what it meant for individuals enveloped in the 'regeneration' of their citizenship and locality. It seeks to understand how community is conceptualised, applied, constructed, misunderstood, exploited, experienced, contested, mobilised and activated by both policy actors and neighbourhood residents and situates this discussion within an examination of the political, emotional and cultural impact of the regeneration experience. Offering a timely analysis of New Labour, regeneration and the politics of community, this book makes an original and important contribution to debates around new spaces of governance, citizen participation and the tackling social exclusion in poor neighbourhoods.

Andrew Wallace is a Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 New Labour, New Welfare Citizens; Chapter 3 Local Governance and New Deal for Communities; Chapter 4 Contesting Community; Chapter 5 Another ‘Urban Snatch’?; Chapter 6 Making Sense of Social Exclusion; Chapter 7 Ensnared Citizens; Chapter 8 Concluding Thoughts;

Erscheinungsdatum	07.01.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-138-25154-2 / 1138251542
ISBN-13	978-1-138-25154-0 / 9781138251540
Zustand	Neuware