
UK Localism in Transition and the Politics of Community
Heather Watkins(Author)
Rowman & Littlefield International (Publisher)
Published on 21. April 2021
Book
Hardback
214 pages
978-1-78661-273-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book explores the politics of localism, drawing on the work of groups in three communities in post-industrial Nottinghamshire. "Third Way" politics gave a high priority to local participation, seen as a way of rebuilding social networks, and shifting welfare provision from the state onto civil society. However, under increasingly difficult conditions of austerity, significant contradictions emerge between the aims of entrenching new markets for service provision, and reviving communities and democratic participation. Exploring in depth community organisers' understandings of political economy and its local effects, and the governance practices which set the frameworks for fiercely independent community groups, the book outlines the forms of politics which emerge. This includes a challenge to the dominant thinking of the 'neoliberal consensus', but also frustration and a sense of political communal loss which has left these communities alienated from both national politics and the often-unattainable benefits of global mobility - an alienation which makes the Brexit vote of 2016 explicable as the disruptive outcome of a slow-burning political crisis of long duration.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
10 b/w photos; 5 tables;
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
505 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78661-273-1 (9781786612731)
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UK Localism in Transition and the Politics of Community
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Heather Watkins
UK Localism in Transition and the Politics of Community
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04/2021
1st Edition
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€98.99
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Person
Heather Watkins is Senior Lecturer in European Studies at Nottingham Trent University.
Content
Chapter 1: Introduction: Local Heroes and Socially Entrepreneurial Communities
Chapter 2: The Political Discourse of Social Capital: Turning Conflict into Consensus?
Chapter 3: The Politics of Community: Optimism of the Will in the East Midlands
Chapter 4: Place: Locality and Political Economy
Chapter 5: Process: Making Social Capitalists
Chapter 6: People and Politics: Citizens, the State and Localism in Practice
Chapter 7: Conclusions: High Hopes and Localism in Practice
Bibliography
Appendix: Abbreviations
Chapter 2: The Political Discourse of Social Capital: Turning Conflict into Consensus?
Chapter 3: The Politics of Community: Optimism of the Will in the East Midlands
Chapter 4: Place: Locality and Political Economy
Chapter 5: Process: Making Social Capitalists
Chapter 6: People and Politics: Citizens, the State and Localism in Practice
Chapter 7: Conclusions: High Hopes and Localism in Practice
Bibliography
Appendix: Abbreviations