Regenerating the City
People, Politics, Power and the Public Sphere
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6303340 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Bunyan (0000-0002-2582-452X, Edge Hill University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 362-378 |
| Publication date | 2015-05-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Local Government Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0300-3930 • E-ISSN: 1743-9388 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03003930.2014.982109 |
| OpenAlex | W2016090427 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 21 |
The transformative potential that has come to be associated with network- ing in all areas of social, economic and political life, not least initiatives designed to tackle urban deprivation, is premised upon the idea that better outcomes prevail when state, market and civil society actors work together in partnership to agree and implement change. Such a perspective is informed by two underlying and related assumptions; first, an understanding of democracy as being essentially deliberative in nature; second, an understanding of social and political change as being essentially consensus based. An agonistic model and alternative explanation questioning these assumptions and the ‘transformative’ claims made on behalf of partnership is presented in this article. In contrast to what is termed a ‘neo-liberal orthodox’ approach an alternative interpretation of regeneration located within a radical conceptualisation of civil society is proposed. Regeneration, it is argued, is better conceptualised in terms of contestation between state, market and third-sector interests with better outcomes for communities prevailing when third-sector actors develop the legitimacy and power to engage politically within the context of a contested public sphere
Civil society · Context (archaeology · Deliberative democracy · Democracy · General partnership · Interpretation (philosophy · Law and economics · Legitimacy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Public sphere · Sociology · State (computer science · Transformative learning · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Public Administration · Urban Planning and Governance
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The theory of communicative action
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Re-conceptualizing Civil Society
Publics, Politics and Power
Brief History of Neoliberalism
The Limits of Partnership
London's Olympics in 2012
Partnership and the Limits to Local Governance in England
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |