Being in Myth and Community: Resistance, Lived Existence, and Democracy in a North England Mill Town

Bond, Sophie

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“…It has been widely argued (see, for example, Cameron, 2003) that this logic was too narrowly focused on market outcomes at a relatively abstract level and was inducing injustice at more localised scales, for example by cutting across individual property rights and the needs of local communities. These arguments have been typically demonstrated with reference to the use of compulsory purchase powers to acquire and demolish properties that were in 'low demand' in market terms but otherwise in serviceable condition (see, for example, Bond, 2011).…”

Section: Demolition Of Housingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It also had a number of unique features such as 264 E. Ferrari comparatively wide programmatic freedoms and, within the parameters of working in areas of 'market failure', an astonishingly broad spatial focus responding to subregional diagnostics of low demand for housing (see, inter alia, Bramley & Pawson, 2002;Lee & Nevin, 2003;Ferrari & Lee, 2010). Although unique in the sense that it was conceived of 'unlikely alliances' between academics, politicians and local housing organisations (see Cole in this volume), it has drawn sustained criticism from all of these groups as well as local residents, architects and media commentators for its focus on demolition (Allen, 2008;Bond, 2011), devalorisation of built heritage (Wilkinson, 2006), marketisation of housing and neighbourhood (Allen & Crookes, 2009), and purported use of partial knowledge claims in the name of 'evidence' based policy (Webb, 2010). In short, much of the critical literature questions the justness of HMR.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

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Competing Ideas of Social Justice and Space: Locating Critiques of Housing Renewal in Theory and in Practice

Ferrari

2012

International Journal of Housing Policy

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This article considers the experience of the English government's policy of HousingMarket Renewal from the perspective of spatial justice. The paper first proposes an analytical framework that situates competing notions of territorial social justice within a space of complex sociospatial relations. The dialectic of two formulations of social justice is first set up, comparing 'procedural' or deontological forms of justice and the distributional justice of outcomes. Soja's formulation of spatial justice is advanced as an appropriate balance between spatial and socio-historic contexts for the justice question. Drawing on the literature on sociospatial relations, concrete critiques and justifications of HMR are then positioned in terms of the intersection of structuring principles and policy fields. The role of demolition in urban restructuring programmes is used to explore the differential spatialities involved in different justicial perspectives. It is concluded that 'gentrification' critiques of HMR are only partial in their evaluation of justice and lack normative power. Some practical implications for the design of urban restructuring policies are offered.

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Section: Demolition Of Housingmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Competing Ideas of Social Justice and Space: Locating Critiques of Housing Renewal in Theory and in Practice

Ferrari

2012

International Journal of Housing Policy

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“…One branch of critical community scholarship draws on the work of Jean-Luc Nancy (1991Nancy ( : 2000. An approach informed by Nancy rejects the possibility of communities based on sameness and a fixed identity because we are all defined by our strangeness and difference -we are all singular (Bond, 2011;Welch and Panelli, 2007). But we can only know we are different by being with others, and therefore 'being is always being-with' (Bond, 2011: 782).…”

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“…However, diagnoses of a 'post-political condition' have been critiqued for being totalising, top-down and overly state-centric (Chatterton et al, 2012;McCarthy, 2013;Raco and Lin, 2012). This article will build on these critiques by exploring post-politicising processes and resistance at a local scale through a Nancian approach to the construction of community; community meaning is formed and performed between people and requires constant work to try to fix a collective identity (Bond, 2011;Diprose, 2016;Mouffe, 2005). This work of fixing identity may also work to disavow dissent and difference.…”

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Everyday experiences of post-politicising processes in rural freshwater management

Thomas

2017

Environ Plan A

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There has been a burgeoning of geography literature that draws on post-politics to make sense of trends in Western liberal democracies. This body of literature argues that consensus is constructed around capitalism, and spaces for dissensus are closed off. However, critiques have focused on the state-centric and totalising nature of some of this literature. This article adds nuance and depth to explorations of post-politicising processes. I do this through an empirical case study that demonstrates how dissensus is disavowed through the construction of community, and highlights gendered and classed experiences of this disavowal. In exploring a rural community in Aotearoa New Zealand engaged in catchment-based decision making, I draw on Nancian critical community scholarship to analyse how neoliberal and rural discourses defined belonging. Boundaries, and who could access the catchment committee, were shaped by expectations of economic consumption, spatial membership, gendered behavioural norms and class. The policing of these boundaries became increasingly antagonistic to the point of threats of violence. Accounts by those who experienced this policing demonstrate the embodied and largely banal nature of post-politicising processes. And yet, this case study illustrates how efforts to depoliticise are entangled with politicisation and raises questions about how change unfolds.

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“…Nancy's work is causing interest among human geographers given its attention to the spatiality of a world that opens to us upon being sensed. On the one hand there are those thinking through an empirical site using his theoretical framework (Bingham on biotechnology; Bond on urban regeneration; Simpson on sound; Sothern and Dickinson on organ transplants; Wylie on memorial benches) and, on the other, those using his theoretical framework to reconsider how day‐to‐day political structures might be re‐imagined (Popke ; Welch and Panelli ). Here I bring the two together to imply an argument for the latter through illustration with the former.…”

Section: Jean‐luc Nancymentioning

confidence: 99%

Neither presencing nor absencing: the stagnation of sensing‐towards‐presence in the call centre

Urry

2013

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper contributes to debates that consider the affective nature of immaterial labour practices upon the working subject. Drawing on call centre work as an example of immaterial labour -specifically in relation to Hardt and Negri's definitional typology -it explores a different way of theorising the subject in order to reconsider our sensory relation to the world. Going further than Hardt and Negri's attunement to our material engagement with the world, the paper uses Jean-Luc Nancy's conceptualisation of human subjectivity, apprehended as a motioning between pre-cognitive sensation and meaningful signification. Sense, for Nancy, is that which is felt nonconsciously, thus creating a vital political space whereby the world itself becomes affectual aside from interpretation. Contrastingly, signification is that which makes meaningful, and hence adjusts the subject's relation in and to the world, transforming what is sensed into a representation. It is the motion between the two, for Nancy, that makes us alive beings-in-the-world but immaterial labour practices hinder this movement for capital gain, reducing possibilities for sensing while simultaneously overloading the being with signification. As such, this paper asks whether the call centre can have a stultifying affect upon the agent's capacity to 'live'. Furthermore, it asks how this dampening is resisted through subtle and vivacious tangents out of routine by those living the labour of the call centre.

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Being in Myth and Community: Resistance, Lived Existence, and Democracy in a North England Mill Town

Cited by 16 publications

References 40 publications

Competing Ideas of Social Justice and Space: Locating Critiques of Housing Renewal in Theory and in Practice

Competing Ideas of Social Justice and Space: Locating Critiques of Housing Renewal in Theory and in Practice

Everyday experiences of post-politicising processes in rural freshwater management

Neither presencing nor absencing: the stagnation of sensing‐towards‐presence in the call centre

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