Whatever happened to municipal radicalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8964232 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew Thompson (0000-0002-5691-4851, Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data (WISERD) Cardiff University Cardiff UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 603-618 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/tran.12606 |
| OpenAlex | W4323046104 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 44 |
What can the municipal state do to radically transform urban economies? Local government in countries such as the UK has been historically tasked with delivering public services; rarely extending its remit to economic development, let alone community‐led forms promoting economic democracy, at least not since 1980s municipal socialism. But times are changing, and the UK case provides some telling examples of what is now possible. Community wealth building, cooperative development and foundational economy approaches are fast gaining traction in municipalities across the UK, through emergent public‐common‐philanthropic partnerships with progressive think tanks, cooperative development agencies, community enterprises, foundations and charitable trusts. This article explores complexifying relations between the state, the cooperative movement and the non‐profit industrial complex in the pursuit of sustainable and generative economic development as playing out differently in urban policy experiments in the English cities of Preston and Plymouth. The article contributes to current debates on local state restructuring, municipal statecraft and urban entrepreneurialism by critically comparing these place‐based variegations of municipal‐cooperative development with previous waves, and with more financialised and extractivist forms of statecraft, drawing out implications for praxis
Citizen journalism · Communism · Community development · Decentralization · Democracy · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Fordism · Local economic development · Local government · Market economy · Participatory development · Political economy · Political radicalism · Political science · Politics · Praxis · Restructuring · Socialism · Sociology · State (computer science · Finance · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration · Urban Planning and Governance
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National government in the casino
Beavers in paradise
A Question of Collaboration
Micro-regeneration and participatory governance
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Designing a New Civic Economy? On the Emergence and Contradictions of Participatory Experimental Urbanism
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Urban financialisation-in-motion
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Varieties of urban entrepreneurialism
The grounded city
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Strategies for a new municipalism
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New Localities
Varieties of smart urbanism in the UK
Progressive localism and the construction of political alternatives
Putting financialisation in its financial context
The geo‐constitution and responses to austerity
Progressive Urbanism in Small Towns
In and Against the Market? The development of socialist economic strategies in Britain, 1981–1986
Bureaucracy and Radical Politics
The Great Survivor
In and beyond local government
Local agency for the public purpose? Dissecting and evaluating the emerging discourses of municipal entrepreneurship in the UK
Knowledge LTD
Defend the Ten
Demolishing the Present to Sell off the Future? The Emergence of 'Financialized Municipal Entrepreneurialism' in London
Small Cities? Towards a Research Agenda
Re-grounding the city with Polanyi
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Placing the Foundational Economy
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| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 7,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |