Communities, places and institutional relations: assessing the role of area-based community representation in local governance

Raco, Mike; Flint, John

doi:10.1016/s0962-6298(01)00012-9

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“…Partly due to the consensus that highest health need is often concentrated in deprived neighbourhoods (Atkinson & Kintrea, 2001), and therefore intervention and service delivery is most effective when organized spatially (Raco & Flint, 2001). As well as these practical considerations, models that attempt to account for the interaction of social, environmental and cultural factors, such as social ecology (e.g.…”

Section: Health Inequality and Neighbourhood Interventionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Is there a role for marketing in community development?

Collins

2014

Community Development Journal

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Section: Health Inequality and Neighbourhood Interventionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Is there a role for marketing in community development?

Collins

2014

Community Development Journal

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“…Under New Labour, there has been a partial and uneven emphasis on involving residents, the voluntary sector and 'communities' in urban governance (Raco and Flint, 2001;Atkinson, 2003;Geddes, 2006). However, it is the private sector and its business elites that have been the most actively welcomed 'outsiders' to the new governance structures.…”

Section: Reconstituting the Local Statementioning

confidence: 99%

Private sector involvement in urban governance: The case of Business Improvement Districts and Town Centre Management partnerships in England

Cook

2009

Geoforum

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Although it has many merits, the voluminous literature on urban governance gives scant attention to the actual involvement and positioning of business elites and businesses within Public-Private Partnerships. There is also little consensus among academics as to why the private sector become involved in such schemes. This paper begins to address these issues through a critical empirical examination of how and why the private sector is involved with three English Town Centre Management (TCM) partnerships and the Business Improvement District (BID) subsidiaries all three partnerships have recently developed. In order to do this, the empirical study is guided by a conceptual framework that foregrounds the relationship between (a) the opening up and monitoring of 'institutional space' by partnerships and the state, and (b) the motivations and 'constrained agency' of the business elites. The paper demonstrates that the positioning of the private sector is more multifarious and fractured than previous studies of urban governance have suggested. It also reveals that business elites and businesses view their participation as an 'investment' that needs to accrue significant financial returns and that partnership and state officials are highly selective in their choice of 'who governs'.

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“…Such a reliance on shared experience and feelings to delineate the neighborhood follows the tendency mentioned above to equate neighborhood with community (Martin, 2003;Forrest and Kearns, 2001;Raco and Flint, 2001;Mayo, 2000;Wellman and Leighton, 1979).…”

Section: Operationalizing Neighborhoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This work is based on empirical examples in which neighborhood and community do not coincide, and offer a more nuanced understanding than that allowed by the historic conflation. If scholars limit their focus on spatially delineated settings like neighborhoods, then the social ties that may, and probably do, exist at different scales and within different boundaries might be obscured (Martin, 2003;see also McCann, 2003;Raco and Flint, 2001;Massey, 1997). In sum, neighborhood is a place that sometimes constitutes community, but is not limited to that meaning, and vice versa ).…”

Section: Operationalizing Neighborhoodmentioning

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Placing Immigrant Incorporation: Identity, Trust, and Civic Engagement in Little Havana

Gioioso¹

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Findings reveal that overall Latin American immigrants and their American-born offspring appear to be becoming American with regard to their ethnic and racial identities vi quickly, evidenced through the salience and active employment of panethnic labels, while at the same time they are actively reshaping the identificational structure. The Latino population, however, is not monolithic and is cleaved by diversity within the group, including country of origin and socioeconomic status. These same factors impede group cohesion in terms of trust and its correlate, community. Nevertheless, the historically dominant ancestry group in Little Havana -Cubans -has been able to reach notable levels of trust and build and conserve a more solid sense of community than non-Cuban residents. With respect to civic engagement, neighborhood residents generally participate at rates lower than the overall US population and ethnic subpopulations. This is not the case for political engagement, however, where self-reported voting registration and turnout in Little Havana surpasses that of most benchmarked populations. The empirical evidence presented in this dissertation on the case of Latinos in Little Havana challenges the ways that identity, trust, and civic engagement are conceptualized and theorized, especially among immigrants to the US.

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Communities, places and institutional relations: assessing the role of area-based community representation in local governance

Cited by 73 publications

References 12 publications

Is there a role for marketing in community development?

Is there a role for marketing in community development?

Private sector involvement in urban governance: The case of Business Improvement Districts and Town Centre Management partnerships in England

Placing Immigrant Incorporation: Identity, Trust, and Civic Engagement in Little Havana

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