By Any Means Necessary: Urban Regeneration and the “State of Exception” in Glasgow's Commonwealth Games 2014

Gray, Neil; Porter, Libby

doi:10.1111/anti.12114

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“…Glasgow is an archetypical post‐industrial city that has undergone both deindustrialization and various attempts at regenerating and reimagining the city over the past three decades (Cumbers et al ; Helms and Cumbers ; MacLeod ). While elements of the city council are keen to pursue a more “green” agenda, in the context of a broader UK politics of austerity and state retrenchment, a more dominant neoliberal agenda of aggressive property‐led accumulation continues to drive Glasgow's political elites (Gray and Porter ). Despite these unpromising political and economic circumstances, as we demonstrate, community gardening activities do offer scope for different kinds of citizenship and politics.…”

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Contesting Neoliberal Urbanism in Glasgow's Community Gardens: The Practice of DIY Citizenship

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In this journal, it has been suggested that citizens practising community gardening “can become complicit in the construction of neoliberal hegemony”. Such hegemony is maintained, it is argued, through the day‐to‐day work of neoliberal citizen‐subjects, which “alleviates the state from service provision”. In this paper we acknowledge that community gardens are vulnerable to neoliberal cooptation. But, even where neoliberal practices are evidenced, such practices do not define or foreclose other socio‐political subjectivities at work in the gardens. We contend that community gardens in Glasgow cultivate collective practices that offer us a glimpse of what a progressively transformative polity can achieve. Enabled by an interlocking process of community and spatial production, this form of citizen participation encourages us to reconsider our relationships with one another, our environment and what constitutes effective political practice. Inspired by a range of writings on citizenship formation we term this “Do‐It‐Yourself” (DIY) Citizenship.

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“…Indeed, the 2014 Glasgow Games illustrated the relationship between such events and a range of political and sociocultural issues which demand further academic analysis, including the impact on displaced local populations (Gray and Mooney, 2011;Gray and Porter, 2015;Paton et al, 2012), LGBTI and human rights (Harris and Skillen, 2016;Jarvie, 2017), and public health outcomes (Clark andKearns, 2015, 2016;Matheson, 2010;McCartney et al, 2012;Stewart and Rayner, 2016).…”

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Glasgow 2014, the media and Scottish politics: The (post)imperial symbolism of the Commonwealth Games

Whigham

Black

2018

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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This article critically examines print media discourses regarding the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games. The forthcoming analysis considers the political symbolism of the Commonwealth Games with regards to the interlinkages between the British Empire, sport and the global political status of the UK, with specific consideration given to the UK's declining global power as well as the interconnections between the 2014 Games and the Scottish independence referendum. Hechter's (1975) 'internal colonialism' thesis, which portrays Scotland's marginalised status within the UK, is drawn upon to critically explore the political symbolism of sport for Scottish nationalism, before discussion focuses upon the extent to which the modern Commonwealth is symptomatic of the UK's declining status as a global power. Finally, 3 the existence of these narrative tropes in print media coverage of the Commonwealth Games is examined, allowing for critical reflections on the continuing interconnections between the media, sport, nationalism and post-imperial global politics.

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“…Gentrification is no mere process of 'neighbourhood change' nor is it a process driven by 'hipsters'. Institutionalised as urban policy, gentrification is a 'global urban strategy' (Smith, 1996) against decline wrought by deindustrialisation, emulated from Bilbao to Mumbai, from dockside developments to mega-sporting events (Atkinson and Bridge, 2005;Hackworth, 2002;Gray and Porter, 2014;Watt, 2013). This diverse character of state-led gentrification has been defined by Hackworth (2002) as the creation of space for the more affluent user.…”

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Place revisited: class, stigma and urban restructuring in the case of Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games

Paton

McCall

Mooney

2017

The Sociological Review

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This paper reappraises the meaning of space and place in contemporary class analysis. We explore how class is reshaped and mediated by neoliberal urban restructuring, of which the processes of gentrification and territorial stigmatization form critical parts. We focus on the contemporary interrelation of class and urban restructuring in the post-crash city by looking at the local lived experiences of the 2014 Commonwealth Games (CWG) in Glasgow’s East End. This high-profile regeneration effort in a deprived working-class neighbourhood reveals much about the functions of neoliberal financial capitalism, austerity and contemporary class formation. We show that gentrification and territorial stigmatization work in tandem within urban regeneration policy interventions as a punitive strategy for managing poor populations. This involves land value and (de)valuing of people and creates new localized class inequalities and insecurities. Our research highlights that in the face of national level cuts and commodification, residents’ local relations and support become essential social, economic and political resources. Yet, paradoxically, at the very same time, their local attachment to place is devalued, stigmatized and is at its most precarious. This exposes the coercive elements of the neoliberal class project; a distinct urban class inequality of our time and therefore, we suggest, a critical direction in class analysis.

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By Any Means Necessary: Urban Regeneration and the “State of Exception” in Glasgow's Commonwealth Games 2014

Cited by 78 publications

References 44 publications

Contesting Neoliberal Urbanism in Glasgow's Community Gardens: The Practice of DIY Citizenship

Contesting Neoliberal Urbanism in Glasgow's Community Gardens: The Practice of DIY Citizenship

Glasgow 2014, the media and Scottish politics: The (post)imperial symbolism of the Commonwealth Games

Place revisited: class, stigma and urban restructuring in the case of Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games

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