Participative Urban Renewal? Disability, Community, and Partnership in New Labour's Urban Policy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4140300 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Claire Edwards (0000-0002-4325-0339, University College Cork, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 1664-1680 |
| Publication date | 2008-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/a39199 |
| OpenAlex | W2119758880 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 28 |
In recent years there has been significant debate regarding the potential of participatory forms of governance to engage with diverse groups and the 'politics of difference'. This paper explores these debates in the context of disabled people's engagement in urban policy processes, as an arena in which participative imperatives have become manifest under the UK's New Labour government. Drawing on a case study of a Single Regeneration Budget partnership, I argue that there are significant limits to disabled people's engagement in urban policy, ranging from their perceived legitimacy and constitution as a 'relevant public', through to the processes of partnership in which managerialist objectives clash with participative agendas. The paper therefore raises issues about the rationale for participation and the extent to which notions of deliberative democracy are equipped to deal with issues of 'difference
Citizen journalism · Corporate governance · Deliberative democracy · Democracy · Economics · General partnership · Legitimacy · Management · Political science · Politics · Public participation · Public relations · Sociology · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Public Administration · Urban Planning and Governance
The Geographies of Disability
Disability and deliberative democracy
Making an Accessible City
Area-based urban regeneration comparing Denmark and Japan
Inclusive smart cities? Technology-driven urban development and disabilities
The politics of recognition and planning practices in diverse neighbourhoods
City/future in the making
Moving beyond walkability
Democracy and Difference
The third way
Collaborative Planning
Modernising Governance
Participative governance and the remaking of the public sphere
Justice and the Politics of Difference
Six Communication and the Other
The structural transformation of the public sphere
The Politics of Disablement
Trouble in Paradise - a disabled person's right to the satisfaction of a self-defined need
Disabling Barriers-Enabling Environments
Making Space for "Neo-communitarianism"? The Third Sector, State and Civil Society in the UK
Inclusion in Regeneration
Partnerships for regeneration
Like a Horse and Carriage or a Fish on a Bicycle
Discourses of Partnership and Empowerment in Contemporary British Urban Regeneration
Deconstructing Communicative Rationality
Disability and Bodies as Bearers of Value
Public Participation and Collaborative Governance
| Citations per year | 0.42 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2025 (19) |
| Highly cited | No |