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Central Government
civic engagement strategies
Community Committee
community empowerment in deprived areas
DCLG 2008a
Drawing Back
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EU Accession Country
Governance Spaces
Innovate Service Provision
invaders
Kersal Moor
Labour Political Project
Liberal Democrat Victory
ndc
NDC Area
NDC Partnership
NDC Programme
Parent Toddler Group
participatory governance
partnership
Partnership Board
Poor Bus Service
Post War
Poverty Management
programme
qualitative neighbourhood research
River Irwell
Salford City Council
seekers
Single Regeneration Budget Schemes
social exclusion
space
urban regeneration
welfare policy analysis
Welfare Reform
Welfare Reform Agenda
workers
Young Men
youth
Product details
- ISBN 9780754678540
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Oct 2010
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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New Labour deployed community as a conceptual framework to rearticulate the state / citizen relationship to be enacted at and through new spaces of governance. An important example of this was how successive New Labour governments sought to renovate the social, political and economic cultures of poor neighbourhoods and generate trajectories of strong, empowered and ordered civic space. This was pursued through programmes such as the New Deal for Communities (NDC) that sought to invigorate and embed socially excluded citizens within localised regeneration projects. In attempting to construct community as a space through which personal and spatial renewal could be achieved, New Labour relied on problematic assumptions about the nature, scope and meaning of community and its relationship with individual social agents. Drawing on original research conducted in an NDC neighbourhood, Remaking Community addresses the interlinking uses of community in government rhetoric and practice. It explores why this concept was so central to the New Labour governing project and what it meant for individuals enveloped in the 'regeneration' of their citizenship and locality. It seeks to understand how community is conceptualised, applied, constructed, misunderstood, exploited, experienced, contested, mobilised and activated by both policy actors and neighbourhood residents and situates this discussion within an examination of the political, emotional and cultural impact of the regeneration experience. Offering a timely analysis of New Labour, regeneration and the politics of community, this book makes an original and important contribution to debates around new spaces of governance, citizen participation and the tackling social exclusion in poor neighbourhoods.
Andrew Wallace is a Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
