The place of politics and the politics of place: Housing, the Labour Party and the local state in England
The place of politics and the politics of place: Housing, the Labour Party and the local state in England
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政治场所和场所政治:英格兰的住房、工党和地方政府
DOI:
10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102308
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发表时间:
2021
影响因子:
4.1
通讯作者:
Ormerod E
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作者:
Ormerod E
This paper argues that geographical research needs to pay greater attention to political parties and their relationship to local governing. In returning to, and updating the concept of the local state, analysis of local socio-spatial and political relations reveals the quieter registers of political power in local governing, and in turn what this means for the condition of local democracy. The long-term housing regeneration of a neighbourhood in Gateshead, North East England is used here as an optic to do just that. Through moments of housing activism, the social and political relations between and within a local Labour Party and local state are considered. A local manifestation of a growing trend that questions the representation of mature structures of power that the Labour Party holds in deindustrialised areas of the UK is considered through struggles over decision-making, belonging, representation and legitimacy. Such accounts of the local scale are critical in relation to global political trends; where apathy, cynicism, lack of expectation and representation and insurgent populist parties are increasingly framed as potential political crises of mature western democracies.
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2002
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影响因子:
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作者:
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通讯作者:
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影响因子:
3.5
作者:
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影响因子:
4.1
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影响因子:
3.1
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通讯作者:
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1467-954x.2007.00683.x
发表时间:
2007
期刊:
The Sociological Review
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作者:
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Tim Strangleman