Is the ‘New Deal for Communities’ a New Deal for Equality? Getting Women on Board in Neighbourhood Governance

Beebeejaun, Yasminah; Grimshaw, Lucy

doi:10.1177/0042098010384518

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“…Little attention has also been given, at both national policy and neighbourhood levels, to working productively and politically with vulnerable ethnic and gender groups in urban regeneration agendas (Beebeejaun & Grimshaw, 2011); the importance of community engagement has been highlighted in recent years, but only discussed in general terms. Future research should explore the mechanism behind community engagement and answer the question of how to enhance public participation.…”

Section: Stakeholders In Urban Renewalmentioning

confidence: 99%

A review of recent studies on sustainable urban renewal

Zheng

Shen

Wang

2014

Habitat International

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Urban renewal and sustainable development are two popular issues in both policy agenda and academia. Although their importance has been increasingly recognized, an integrated review covering sustainability, planning, and urban renewal has yet to be produced. Based on 81 journal papers, this paper presents a critical review of recent studies on sustainable urban renewal over the period 1990 to 2012. The review focuses on the planning sub-system and the social sub-system of urban renewal in terms of the evaluation of sustainability. The complexity of achieving sustainable urban renewal is emphasized and discussed.To better clarify the mechanism behind the urban renewal process and improve urban sustainability, recommendations of future research directions are also provided.

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Section: Stakeholders In Urban Renewalmentioning

confidence: 99%

A review of recent studies on sustainable urban renewal

Zheng

Shen

Wang

2014

Habitat International

348

239

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“…In relation to a programme such as New Deal for Communities, involvement has been shown often to divide along lines of gender (as well as class and ethnicity). For example, women are more likely to be present on the partnership boards which have characterised local regeneration programmes as “community representatives”(ie as non‐professional local people) rather than being from the professional public, private and voluntary sectors (Beebeejaun and Grimshaw, ; Grimshaw, ). Such women have been shown to see their involvement as strongly linked to (often very traditional) gender roles (Grimshaw, :333).…”

Section: Approaching Gender In Uk Urban Policy Programmesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Women, Communities, Neighbourhoods: Approaching Gender and Feminism within UK Urban Policy

Jupp

2014

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In recent years some commentators have looked at successive waves of UK urban policy from the perspective of gender, although these commentaries have been somewhat marginal within wider discussions of urban policy and politics. This article seeks to make the case for a renewed emphasis on gender, which moves beyond tracing the role of men and women in relation to urban policy programmes, in two particular ways. First it is argued that a more sophisticated analysis of the gendered nature of urban governance is needed, in other words how forms of gendered labour, subjectivity and power work through and within policy projects; and second that there should be a wider consideration of what feminist visions of cities and politics, both past and present, might contribute to the project of a critical, and hopeful, analysis of urban policy and politics. The paper seeks to make a practical as well as theoretical intervention in relation to gender and feminist perspectives on UK urban policy. It is argued that there has been a silence around such issues in recent years, both in analysis and in policy discourses, and that this silence has masked how gendered labour and power has often been woven into urban governance. For example, forms of women‐centred organising have been relied on in a range of government projects seeking to build community and participation within poor neighbourhoods. Such reliance may be increasing in a context of austerity. As well as this critical analysis of current policy, the paper argues for the reinvigoration of feminist visions of cities that suggest different framings of aspects of urban life. For example, rethinking the lines between public and private spheres might result in different forms of housing or sites of civic participation. Through engaging anew with such perspectives cities might become more just, caring, and equal for all.

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“…Most of them [are] very wealthy so won't have to extend, they will buy a bigger house. Actually, less powerful or newer groupings of new migrants, women and younger people found it difficult to have their voices heard in consultation or become incorporated within governance structures (Beebeejaun & Grimshaw, 2011). By setting up structures which created different ethnic groups, new areas of contention emerged.…”

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Including the Excluded? Changing the Understandings of Ethnicity in Contemporary English Planning

Beebeejaun

2012

Planning Theory & Practice

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The inclusion of ethnic and racial groups through participation is a key concern for planners, but far too little attention has been given to the way that groups become identified. Ethnic identity is presumed to be self-evident. Drawing on the political theory of Young and Gilroy the paper questions the basis for ethnic identity as a group membership. These theorists suggest that through attention to relationships between ethnic groups we can open up space to challenge existing ethnic power relations. The paper draws upon qualitative research in two English local authorities to explore how long-standing conceptualisations of ethnicity act to diminish the positive contribution that attention to difference can have. The findings suggest that planners make positive efforts to understand ethnic difference and engage with community groups. However, the identification of groups is not a neutral or objective process, but instead is power-ridden. This article argues that the progressive edge of planning and efforts of planners are undermined if we do not interrogate the basis for the understanding of ethnic difference.

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Is the ‘New Deal for Communities’ a New Deal for Equality? Getting Women on Board in Neighbourhood Governance

Cited by 19 publications

References 38 publications

A review of recent studies on sustainable urban renewal

A review of recent studies on sustainable urban renewal

Women, Communities, Neighbourhoods: Approaching Gender and Feminism within UK Urban Policy

Including the Excluded? Changing the Understandings of Ethnicity in Contemporary English Planning

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