Pauline M Mcguirk
Biographic Data
| ID | 237766 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pauline M Mcguirk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pauline M |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcguirk |
| SIGNATURE | MCGUIRK P M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 194 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Configuring Urban Carbon Governance: Insights from Sydney, Australia
In the political geography of responses to climate change, and the governance of carbon more specifically, the urban has emerged as a strategic site. Although it is recognized that urban carbon governance occurs through diverse programs and projects-involving multiple actors and working through multiple sites, mechanisms, objects, and subjects-surprisingly little attention has been paid to the actual processes through which these diverse elements…
Making a smart city for the smart grid? The urban material politics of actualising smart electricity networks
In a growing debate about the smart city, considerations of the ways in which urban infrastructures and their materialities are being reconfigured and contested remain in the shadows of analyses which have been primarily concerned with the management and flow of digitalisation and big data in pursuit of new logics for economic growth. In this paper, we examine the ways in which the 'smart city' is being put to work for different ends and through …
Effective Practices for Interagency Data Sharing: Insights from Collaborative Research in a Regional Intervention
Data sharing adds considerable value to interagency programs that seek to tackle complex social problems. Yet data sharing is not easily enacted either technically or as a governance practice, especially considering the multiple forms of risk involved. This article presents insights from a successful data sharing project in a major region in east coast Australia involving a federally funded research partnership between two universities and a numb…
Social Mix and the Problematisation of Social Housing
Social housing in Australia is at a significant juncture. High levels of housing stress, increasing levels of socio-spatial polarisation and reduced government funding are posing complex policy challenges. Social mix policies are one response to these challenges, arising from the problematisation of social housing estates as socially excluded. This problematisation is examined through case studies of two Sydney social housing renewal projects: Te…
Neoliberalist Planning? Re-thinking and Re-casting Sydney's Metropolitan Planning
This paper argues that neoliberalism should be viewed not as a unified coherent project but as a series of complex and overlapping strategies that produce hybrid and always emergent forms of governance. To substantiate this argument, the paper reflects on the recent history of Sydney's metropolitan planning and rejects any simple characterisation of its having been transformed from a social-democratic to a neoliberal form of governance. Instead i…
State, Strategy, and Scale in the Competitive City: A Neo-Gramscian Analysis of the Governance of 'Global Sydney
In this paper I argue that a neo-Gramscian strategic relational approach (SRA) offers the relational and constructivist perspectives necessary to enhance our concrete and theoretical understandings of urban governance. Moreover, I argue for the utility of using discourse as a productive entry point for neo-Gramscian analysis. Taking a discursive approach to a case study of the governance of ‘global Sydney’ since the mid-1990s, I explore how engag…
Producing the Capacity to Govern in Global Sydney: A Multiscaled Account
Critiques of urban regime theory suggest the need for a more nuanced approach to the tangled scalar geographies that constitute urban governance. This article moves towards such an approach by adopting urban regime theory’s focus on urban politics but conducts its analyses through a multiscalar lens. It demonstrates how processes operating across multiple scales intersect in the production of local governance. The article focuses on the social pr…
Power and Policy Networks in Urban Governance: Local Government and Property-led Regeneration in Dublin
Using Dublin as a case study, this paper examines how the locus of power in urban governance is reshaped through the emergence of networked governing practices. Specifically, the paper takes the intersection of central government property-led regeneration initiatives with local government planning regulation in Dublin as a forum in which to explore the multiscaled policy networks constituting urban governance and the role of local government, par…
Gendered geographies in Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and the Asia‐Pacific
This paper positions the contributions to this special issue within the main currents of contemporary analyses of gendered geographies in Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and the Asia‐Pacific. In so doing it charts the growing strength in the region of geographical research focusing on gender issues and informed by feminist theory. This research has ranged from scholarship emphasising the empirical documentation of gendered differences to more rec…
Selling Waterfront Heritage: A Critique of Millers Point, Sydney
This article explores the assimilation of a Sydney waterfront precinct, Millers Point, into the cultural tourism industry. Heritage tourism offers a potential economic base to revitalise an area whose nineteenth‐century wharves and port infrastructure have become redundant. The selection of Millers Point over other places occurred through the presence of artefacts dating from the nation's early European history. Marking tourist sites in Millers P…
Multiscaled Interpretations of Urban Change: The Federal, the State, and the Local in the Western Area Strategy of Adelaide
My aim is to question the concept of an indisputable hierarchy of scales-global, national, regional, and local-in which processes, outcomes, and responses can be categorised as originating at distinct and discrete levels. Such a concept has allowed regional and local influence to be presented as the context in which the operation of global processes is fine-tuned, rather than as being a formative part of those processes. I aim to apply nonhierarc…
Marking time: Tourism and heritage representation at Millers Point, Sydney
The aim of this paper is to examine how Millers Point, a harbourside precinct of Sydney, is being assimilated into the tourism production system as the traditional local economic base of maritime industries has declined. For localities with some attribute that can be marketed, packaged and sold, assimilation into the tourism production system is a viable route towards realigning the local economy. For Millers Point, commodification of the past as…
Constructing places for the market: The case of Newcastle, NSW
Cities with a heritage of heavy industry, such as Newcastle (NSW), face an insecure future as they undergo economic restructuring. The identities of cities are being refashioned by entrepreneurial urban governments, as part of a three‐pronged attempt to market their territories. A social construction approach reveals the problematic nature of these symbolic reconstructions, their partiality, the reduction of heritage to a commodity, and the elidi…
Place Making: The Social Construction of Newcastle
The city of Newcastle has experienced significant transformations of identity. The city's contemporary reconstruction is a deliberate shift from industrial to post‐industrial identity. An industrial identity is now held to be debilitating for places, while a post‐industrial vision proffers an impression of improvement. The notion that places are constructed, symbolically as well as materially, allows us to problematise the identity of place, and …
Neoliberalist Planning? Re-thinking and Re-casting Sydney's Metropolitan Planning
This paper argues that neoliberalism should be viewed not as a unified coherent project but as a series of complex and overlapping strategies that produce hybrid and always emergent forms of governance. To substantiate this argument, the paper reflects on the recent history of Sydney's metropolitan planning and rejects any simple characterisation of its having been transformed from a social-democratic to a neoliberal form of governance. Instead i…
State, Strategy, and Scale in the Competitive City: A Neo-Gramscian Analysis of the Governance of 'Global Sydney
In this paper I argue that a neo-Gramscian strategic relational approach (SRA) offers the relational and constructivist perspectives necessary to enhance our concrete and theoretical understandings of urban governance. Moreover, I argue for the utility of using discourse as a productive entry point for neo-Gramscian analysis. Taking a discursive approach to a case study of the governance of ‘global Sydney’ since the mid-1990s, I explore how engag…
Producing the Capacity to Govern in Global Sydney: A Multiscaled Account
Critiques of urban regime theory suggest the need for a more nuanced approach to the tangled scalar geographies that constitute urban governance. This article moves towards such an approach by adopting urban regime theory’s focus on urban politics but conducts its analyses through a multiscalar lens. It demonstrates how processes operating across multiple scales intersect in the production of local governance. The article focuses on the social pr…
Making a smart city for the smart grid? The urban material politics of actualising smart electricity networks
In a growing debate about the smart city, considerations of the ways in which urban infrastructures and their materialities are being reconfigured and contested remain in the shadows of analyses which have been primarily concerned with the management and flow of digitalisation and big data in pursuit of new logics for economic growth. In this paper, we examine the ways in which the 'smart city' is being put to work for different ends and through …
Configuring Urban Carbon Governance: Insights from Sydney, Australia
In the political geography of responses to climate change, and the governance of carbon more specifically, the urban has emerged as a strategic site. Although it is recognized that urban carbon governance occurs through diverse programs and projects-involving multiple actors and working through multiple sites, mechanisms, objects, and subjects-surprisingly little attention has been paid to the actual processes through which these diverse elements…
Place Making: The Social Construction of Newcastle
The city of Newcastle has experienced significant transformations of identity. The city's contemporary reconstruction is a deliberate shift from industrial to post‐industrial identity. An industrial identity is now held to be debilitating for places, while a post‐industrial vision proffers an impression of improvement. The notion that places are constructed, symbolically as well as materially, allows us to problematise the identity of place, and …
Power and Policy Networks in Urban Governance: Local Government and Property-led Regeneration in Dublin
Using Dublin as a case study, this paper examines how the locus of power in urban governance is reshaped through the emergence of networked governing practices. Specifically, the paper takes the intersection of central government property-led regeneration initiatives with local government planning regulation in Dublin as a forum in which to explore the multiscaled policy networks constituting urban governance and the role of local government, par…
Multiscaled Interpretations of Urban Change: The Federal, the State, and the Local in the Western Area Strategy of Adelaide
My aim is to question the concept of an indisputable hierarchy of scales-global, national, regional, and local-in which processes, outcomes, and responses can be categorised as originating at distinct and discrete levels. Such a concept has allowed regional and local influence to be presented as the context in which the operation of global processes is fine-tuned, rather than as being a formative part of those processes. I aim to apply nonhierarc…
Marking time: Tourism and heritage representation at Millers Point, Sydney
The aim of this paper is to examine how Millers Point, a harbourside precinct of Sydney, is being assimilated into the tourism production system as the traditional local economic base of maritime industries has declined. For localities with some attribute that can be marketed, packaged and sold, assimilation into the tourism production system is a viable route towards realigning the local economy. For Millers Point, commodification of the past as…
Selling Waterfront Heritage: A Critique of Millers Point, Sydney
This article explores the assimilation of a Sydney waterfront precinct, Millers Point, into the cultural tourism industry. Heritage tourism offers a potential economic base to revitalise an area whose nineteenth‐century wharves and port infrastructure have become redundant. The selection of Millers Point over other places occurred through the presence of artefacts dating from the nation's early European history. Marking tourist sites in Millers P…
Effective Practices for Interagency Data Sharing: Insights from Collaborative Research in a Regional Intervention
Data sharing adds considerable value to interagency programs that seek to tackle complex social problems. Yet data sharing is not easily enacted either technically or as a governance practice, especially considering the multiple forms of risk involved. This article presents insights from a successful data sharing project in a major region in east coast Australia involving a federally funded research partnership between two universities and a numb…
Social Mix and the Problematisation of Social Housing
Social housing in Australia is at a significant juncture. High levels of housing stress, increasing levels of socio-spatial polarisation and reduced government funding are posing complex policy challenges. Social mix policies are one response to these challenges, arising from the problematisation of social housing estates as socially excluded. This problematisation is examined through case studies of two Sydney social housing renewal projects: Te…
Constructing places for the market: The case of Newcastle, NSW
Cities with a heritage of heavy industry, such as Newcastle (NSW), face an insecure future as they undergo economic restructuring. The identities of cities are being refashioned by entrepreneurial urban governments, as part of a three‐pronged attempt to market their territories. A social construction approach reveals the problematic nature of these symbolic reconstructions, their partiality, the reduction of heritage to a commodity, and the elidi…
Gendered geographies in Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and the Asia‐Pacific
This paper positions the contributions to this special issue within the main currents of contemporary analyses of gendered geographies in Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and the Asia‐Pacific. In so doing it charts the growing strength in the region of geographical research focusing on gender issues and informed by feminist theory. This research has ranged from scholarship emphasising the empirical documentation of gendered differences to more rec…
Place Making: The Social Construction of Newcastle
The city of Newcastle has experienced significant transformations of identity. The city's contemporary reconstruction is a deliberate shift from industrial to post‐industrial identity. An industrial identity is now held to be debilitating for places, while a post‐industrial vision proffers an impression of improvement. The notion that places are constructed, symbolically as well as materially, allows us to problematise the identity of place, and …
Marking time: Tourism and heritage representation at Millers Point, Sydney
The aim of this paper is to examine how Millers Point, a harbourside precinct of Sydney, is being assimilated into the tourism production system as the traditional local economic base of maritime industries has declined. For localities with some attribute that can be marketed, packaged and sold, assimilation into the tourism production system is a viable route towards realigning the local economy. For Millers Point, commodification of the past as…
Constructing places for the market: The case of Newcastle, NSW
Cities with a heritage of heavy industry, such as Newcastle (NSW), face an insecure future as they undergo economic restructuring. The identities of cities are being refashioned by entrepreneurial urban governments, as part of a three‐pronged attempt to market their territories. A social construction approach reveals the problematic nature of these symbolic reconstructions, their partiality, the reduction of heritage to a commodity, and the elidi…
Selling Waterfront Heritage: A Critique of Millers Point, Sydney
This article explores the assimilation of a Sydney waterfront precinct, Millers Point, into the cultural tourism industry. Heritage tourism offers a potential economic base to revitalise an area whose nineteenth‐century wharves and port infrastructure have become redundant. The selection of Millers Point over other places occurred through the presence of artefacts dating from the nation's early European history. Marking tourist sites in Millers P…
Multiscaled Interpretations of Urban Change: The Federal, the State, and the Local in the Western Area Strategy of Adelaide
My aim is to question the concept of an indisputable hierarchy of scales-global, national, regional, and local-in which processes, outcomes, and responses can be categorised as originating at distinct and discrete levels. Such a concept has allowed regional and local influence to be presented as the context in which the operation of global processes is fine-tuned, rather than as being a formative part of those processes. I aim to apply nonhierarc…
Gendered geographies in Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and the Asia‐Pacific
This paper positions the contributions to this special issue within the main currents of contemporary analyses of gendered geographies in Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and the Asia‐Pacific. In so doing it charts the growing strength in the region of geographical research focusing on gender issues and informed by feminist theory. This research has ranged from scholarship emphasising the empirical documentation of gendered differences to more rec…
Power and Policy Networks in Urban Governance: Local Government and Property-led Regeneration in Dublin
Using Dublin as a case study, this paper examines how the locus of power in urban governance is reshaped through the emergence of networked governing practices. Specifically, the paper takes the intersection of central government property-led regeneration initiatives with local government planning regulation in Dublin as a forum in which to explore the multiscaled policy networks constituting urban governance and the role of local government, par…
Producing the Capacity to Govern in Global Sydney: A Multiscaled Account
Critiques of urban regime theory suggest the need for a more nuanced approach to the tangled scalar geographies that constitute urban governance. This article moves towards such an approach by adopting urban regime theory’s focus on urban politics but conducts its analyses through a multiscalar lens. It demonstrates how processes operating across multiple scales intersect in the production of local governance. The article focuses on the social pr…
State, Strategy, and Scale in the Competitive City: A Neo-Gramscian Analysis of the Governance of 'Global Sydney
In this paper I argue that a neo-Gramscian strategic relational approach (SRA) offers the relational and constructivist perspectives necessary to enhance our concrete and theoretical understandings of urban governance. Moreover, I argue for the utility of using discourse as a productive entry point for neo-Gramscian analysis. Taking a discursive approach to a case study of the governance of ‘global Sydney’ since the mid-1990s, I explore how engag…
Neoliberalist Planning? Re-thinking and Re-casting Sydney's Metropolitan Planning
This paper argues that neoliberalism should be viewed not as a unified coherent project but as a series of complex and overlapping strategies that produce hybrid and always emergent forms of governance. To substantiate this argument, the paper reflects on the recent history of Sydney's metropolitan planning and rejects any simple characterisation of its having been transformed from a social-democratic to a neoliberal form of governance. Instead i…
Social Mix and the Problematisation of Social Housing
Social housing in Australia is at a significant juncture. High levels of housing stress, increasing levels of socio-spatial polarisation and reduced government funding are posing complex policy challenges. Social mix policies are one response to these challenges, arising from the problematisation of social housing estates as socially excluded. This problematisation is examined through case studies of two Sydney social housing renewal projects: Te…
Effective Practices for Interagency Data Sharing: Insights from Collaborative Research in a Regional Intervention
Data sharing adds considerable value to interagency programs that seek to tackle complex social problems. Yet data sharing is not easily enacted either technically or as a governance practice, especially considering the multiple forms of risk involved. This article presents insights from a successful data sharing project in a major region in east coast Australia involving a federally funded research partnership between two universities and a numb…
Configuring Urban Carbon Governance: Insights from Sydney, Australia
In the political geography of responses to climate change, and the governance of carbon more specifically, the urban has emerged as a strategic site. Although it is recognized that urban carbon governance occurs through diverse programs and projects-involving multiple actors and working through multiple sites, mechanisms, objects, and subjects-surprisingly little attention has been paid to the actual processes through which these diverse elements…
Making a smart city for the smart grid? The urban material politics of actualising smart electricity networks
In a growing debate about the smart city, considerations of the ways in which urban infrastructures and their materialities are being reconfigured and contested remain in the shadows of analyses which have been primarily concerned with the management and flow of digitalisation and big data in pursuit of new logics for economic growth. In this paper, we examine the ways in which the 'smart city' is being put to work for different ends and through …
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (10 works) · Economics (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Corporate governance (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Law (5 works)