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Remaking Community? - New Labour and the Governance of Poor Neighbourhoods (Paperback)
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Remaking Community? - New Labour and the Governance of Poor Neighbourhoods (Paperback)
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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.
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