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New Developments in Urban Governance
Presenting the findings of a major Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) project into urban austerity governance in eight cities across the world, this book offers comparative reflections on the myriad experiences of collaborative governance and its limitations.
Handbook of Urban Politics and Policy
This authoritative Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of research into urban politics and policy in cities across the globe. Leading scholars examine the position of urban politics within political science and analyse the critical approaches and interdisciplinary pressures that are broadening the field.
Co-Cities
A new model of urban governance, mapping the route to a more equitable management of a city’s infrastructure and services. The majority of the world’s inhabitants live in cities, but even with the vast wealth and resources these cities generate, their most vulnerable populations live without adequate or affordable housing, safe water, healthy food, and other essentials. And yet, cities also often harbor the solutions to the inequalities they create, as this book makes clear. With examples drawn from cities worldwide, Co-Cities outlines practices, laws, and policies that are presently fostering innovation in the provision of urban services, spurring collaborative economies as a driver of ...
Community-Led Generation
Through seven London case studies of communities opposing social housing demolition and/or proposing community-led plans, Community-Led Regeneration offers a toolkit of planning mechanisms and other strategies that residents and planners working with communities can use to resist demolition and propose community-led schemes. The case studies are Walterton and Elgins Community Homes, West Ken and Gibbs Green Community Homes, Cressingham Gardens Community, Greater Carpenters Neighbourhood Forum, Focus E15, People’s Empowerment Alliance for Custom House (PEACH), and Alexandra and Ainsworth Estates. Together, these case studies represent a broad overview of groups that formed as a reaction to ...
Reclaiming Democracy in Cities
Effective urban governance is essential in responding to the challenges of inequality, migration, public health, housing, security, and climate change. Reclaiming Democracy in Cities frames the city as a political actor in its own right, exploring the city’s potential to develop deliberative and participatory practices which help inform innovative democratic solutions to modern day challenges. Bringing together expertise from an international selection of scholars from various fields, this book begins with three chapters which discuss the theoretical idea of the democratic city and the real-world applicability of such a model. Part II discusses new and innovative democratic practices at th...
Reclaiming Participatory Governance
Reclaiming Participatory Governance offers empirical and theoretical perspectives on how the relationship between social movements and state institutions is emerging and developing through new modes of participatory governance. One of the most interesting political developments of the past decade has been the adoption by social movements of strategies seeking to change political institutions through participatory governance. These strategies have flourished in a variety of contexts, from anti-austerity and pro-social justice protests in Spain, to movements demanding climate transition and race equality in the UK and the USA, to constitutional reforms in Belgium and Iceland. The chief ambitio...
New Developments in Urban Governance
This book presents the findings of a major Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) project into urban austerity governance in eight cities across the world (Athens, Baltimore, Barcelona, Melbourne, Dublin, Leicester, Montréal and Nantes). It offers comparative reflections on the myriad experiences of collaborative governance and its limitations. An international collaborative from across the social sciences, the book discusses ways that citizens, activists and local states collaborate and come into conflict in attempting to build just cities. It examines the development of egalitarian collaborative governance strategies, provides innovative ideas and tools to extend emancipatory governance practices and shows hopeful possibilities for cities beyond austerity and neoliberalism.
Contentious Migrant Solidarity
In the context of both the financial crisis and the crisis of European migration politics, the notion of solidarity has gained renewed prominence and - as this book argues - its practice has become increasingly contentious. Intersecting crises have sharpened social and political polarization and have contracted simultaneously the space for migrant and minority rights as well as the rights around political dissent. Building upon social movement and migration studies, this book maps the two sides of ‘contentious solidarity’: a shrinking civic space and its contestation by civil society. The book thereby unfolds the variety of repressive means (physical, legal, administrative and discursive...
Tras la indignación. El 15M: miradas desde el presente
Se cumplen diez años del surgimiento del 15M, diez años de la aparición de la «nueva política» y la indignación que hizo saltar por los aires el sistema de bipartidismo imperfecto vigente en España desde la Transición. Los efectos que el 15M generó han sido muchos. De hecho, casi es más fácil preguntarse qué aspectos del debate público y de la vida política quedaron al margen. En este libro se pretende mirar aquel 15M desde el momento actual, analizando cómo ha afectado a las dinámicas políticas, qué papel han jugado los Ayuntamientos del cambio, cómo ha repercutido en las esferas cultural y de innovación, qué relación se ha establecido con las redes sociales y las tec...
Präfiguration
Ob Occupy-Proteste oder Gezi-Park-Besetzung – das Phänomen der Präfiguration ist aus aktivistischen Kontexten derzeit nicht wegzudenken. Paul Sörensen spürt dem politischen Charakter und den Semantiken im zeitgenössischen Diskurs dieser Widerstandspraxis nach. Neben der Betrachtung ideengeschichtlicher Hintergründe, Herkünfte und Handlungsmodi werden auch die Potenziale und Grenzen antizipatorischer aktivistischer Praktiken ausgelotet. Nicht zuletzt unterbreitet die Studie einen Entwurf, welche Formen eine kritische Theorie der Politik künftig annehmen könnte.
