Local politics in an international context

A linguistic analysis of community resiliency in Memphis, TN

Bibliographic Data

ID6303576
AuthorsLeah Windsor (0000-0002-4311-1320, Memphis College of Art, corresponding author), Leah Cathryn Windsor (University of Memphis College of Arts and Sciences, Institute for Intelligent Systems, Memphis, TN, USA), Andrew J Hampton (0000-0003-3644-364X, University of Memphis College of Arts and Sciences, Institute for Intelligent Systems, Memphis, TN, USA), James Grayson Cupit (University of Memphis College of Arts and Sciences, Institute for Intelligent Systems, Memphis, TN, USA), J Cupit (Memphis College of Art), Alistair James Windsor (University of Memphis College of Arts and Sciences, Institute for Intelligent Systems, Memphis, TN, USA), Alistair Windsor (0000-0002-2622-6214, Memphis College of Art)
Year2019
Volume45
Issue3
Pages350-371
Publication date2019-05-04
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLocal Government Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0300-3930 • E-ISSN: 1743-9388
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03003930.2019.1571998
OpenAlexW2917262804
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited50

This paper utilises the framework of state capacity from international relations, including the quality of institutions, bureaucracy, and enforcement mechanisms, to evaluate community resiliency. We take a global perspective on the problems of disorder, crime, and social capital, contextualising these issues with a broader global literature of how communities respond to systemic stressors driven by both endogenous and exogenous factors, including social problems and corresponding policy prescriptions are defined in terms of poverty, inequality, and civic participation. Locally, these issues are framed as individual-level problems, such as crime and blight. Our work provides a bridge between the international relations perspective and the local governance perspective. Using macro-level global political research drawing on international relations scholarship on quality of governance, we examine micro-level processes with Memphis, Tennessee, USA as a case study. Our data include reports from the Memphis 3–1-1 system alongside crime, weather, social capital and governance indicators

Context (archaeology · Corporate governance · Economics · Memphis · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Social capital · Social science · Sociology · Community Health and Development · Disaster Management and Resilience · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Law · Public Administration

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