Governmentality, subject‐building, and the discourses and practices of devolution in the UK

Raco, Mike

doi:10.1111/1475-5661.00078

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“…International best practice becomes self-fulfilling'' (Tomlinson, 2002, page 381). However, rationalities and technologies are only partial (Raco, 2003), and in any case there is the potential for``local conditions to intrude, thereby disrupting the flow'' (Murdoch, 2000, page 506). The implications of this are considered below.…”

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Urban Sustainability: Learning from Best Practice?

2006

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In the promotion of urban sustainability in national and international arenas, numerous initiatives and programmes have been put into place to facilitate the creation and dissemination of`best practice' (1) through which to promote policy transfer and learning. However, despite the vast array of available best practices, little is known about the ways in which best practice is constructed, used, and contested, or of its implications for urban sustainability. In this paper I argue that, rather than consider the importance of best practice in terms of the extent to which it promotes the transfer of initiatives, or processes of lesson drawing, the creation, dissemination, and use of best practice can be better understood as a discursive process, in which not only is new knowledge created about a policy problem, but the nature and interpretation of the policy problem itself are challenged and reframed (Hajer, 1995;Owens and Cowell, 2002;Owens and Rayner, 1999). Drawing on insights from literatures on governmentality, I argue that best practice represents at once a political rationality and a governmental technology through which networks and coalitions seek to promote particular urban futures. However, in practice, the abstractions of best practice become enmeshed in the particularities of the places from which they are derived, and in political struggles over urban sustainability in the locales where best practice is deployed. Although such processes impede the translation and incorporation of local knowledges into political rationalities shaping the norms and rules of urban sustainability (Murdoch, 2000), they point to the

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“…In the context of the work of regeneration that is currently taking place in both urban and rural areas around the country, the list of policy priorities is topped by growth, entrepreneurship and competitiveness. These are also specifically the values that determine the framework for the type of participation and influence that partnering opens up for [17].…”

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“…The institutional forms complement, but in certain cases may also replace, existing organisational forms. Secondly, partnering produces contemplated partnering subjects with certain characteristics (such as an acceptance of responsibility, a willingness to listen and an aspiration to achieve consensus) [17,18]. As Elina Palola, Taina Rintala and Annikki Savio note, "partnering society needs partnering citizens" [19].…”

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The Partnering Society: Governmentality, Partnerships and Active Local Citizenship

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2009

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Abstract:In recent years, governing through partnerships has become more and more common and is today reflected in a range of policy areas. In the following article, governing through partnerships is analyzed in the context of Swedish politics and two policy areas (regional and urban policy) where the notion of partnership has had particularly large impact. Since each policy area deals with specific issues, the idea of partnership is framed in different ways. However, there are common features. In both of these policy areas, consensus and cooperation, adaptation and flexibility, entrepreneurship and development, bottom-up and local mobilization are political core values, albeit with a slightly different emphasis. With the idea of governing through partnerships, the political landscape is redrawn. The role of the State, for instance, is increasingly to leave room for various voluntary and independent actors and associations, to co-ordinate and interact, as a partner, among others, rather than directing society "from above".

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“…It became increasingly clear that Marshall had only grasped the juridico-political dimension of citizenship. For authors like Nikolas Rose (2000), Barry Hindess (2000), Mike Raco (2003), Engin Isin (2002) and Willem Schinkel (2010) however, citizenship was a more complex phenomenon.…”

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Does Antwerp Belong to Everyone? Unveiling the Conditional Limits to Inclusive Urban Citizenship

Puymbroeck

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Vandevoordt

2014

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Recent theoretical discussions have indicated that citizenship is not only a way of being, but also a way of behaving. This article aims to show how attempts to regulate the behaviour of the citizenry can introduce a new topography of inclusion and exclusion, thereby exercising a direct effect on particular ethnic minorities. We investigate the issue in Antwerp, the largest city of the Flemish Region in Belgium. With his slogan 'Antwerp belongs to everyone' former mayor Patrick Janssens gained significant international attention for Antwerp's supposedly inclusive conception of urban citizenship. In this article, we argue that the universality of Antwerp's city slogan has nevertheless veiled the introduction of new exclusionary prescriptions centred around citizens' conduct. Drawing on a Foucauldian account of power, three different modes of policing are discussed that have rearticulated the boundaries of urban citizenship in Antwerp. The disciplinary, bio-political and etho-political techniques of power each show in a different way attempts by the state to steer and effectively regulate what counts as appropriate conduct. As a corollary of governmental power, particular ways of behaving have been labelled as deviant and abnormal, thus rendering full citizenship conditional on a set of substantial expectations on how to perform as a citizen. As these expectations are only apparently neutral with respect to ethnic identities, a tension arose between the city's universal and inclusive rhetoric and its particular and exclusionary policies.

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Governmentality, subject‐building, and the discourses and practices of devolution in the UK

Cited by 134 publications

References 36 publications

Urban Sustainability: Learning from Best Practice?

Urban Sustainability: Learning from Best Practice?

The Partnering Society: Governmentality, Partnerships and Active Local Citizenship

Does Antwerp Belong to Everyone? Unveiling the Conditional Limits to Inclusive Urban Citizenship

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