Public Policy and Geography

Boyle, Mark; Hall, Tim; Lin, Shaun; Sidaway, James D.; Meeteren, Michiel van

doi:10.1016/b978-0-08-102295-5.10731-0

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“…Indeed why do some critical urbanists see policy engaged critical urban scholarship as a misnomer? Approaching these questions as a geographer, I cannot help but reflect upon the enduring legacy of academic identities bequeathed by the so-called 'relevance debates' which animated the anglophone discipline in the 1970s (Boyle et al, 2020).…”

Section: Estranged! Why Critical Urban Scholars and Policy Makers Don...mentioning

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Why engaged critical urban research must place scholar policy activism at its core

Boyle

2024

Dialogues in Urban Research

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I welcome and endorse Loretta Lees' call for a reconstituted critical urban studies tradition predicated upon polyvocal, intersectoral and co-produced research, dialogues and dialoguing and concurrent and compounding critical intelligences. In this short commentary, I make the case for placing scholar policy activism at the heart of such a tradition. I explore how and why critical urban research has come to view executive power as its arch nemesis. I argue that continued estrangement and jousting between the architects of radical praxis and those of policy practice is indefensible. I scope the contours of a new generation of policy engaged critical scholarship. We can no longer in good conscience fire missiles from inside the ivory tower and outside of the governing tent in the hope that better cities will result. If we are to be serious about ‘shaking up the city’, we will need to work with and on sources of power – to immerse ourselves in the epistemic communities which enjoy dominion over policy registers – and recalibrate the urban ‘partition of the sensible’.

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Why engaged critical urban research must place scholar policy activism at its core

Boyle

2024

Dialogues in Urban Research

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“…Early on I was told by critical urban geographers (with whom I identify/ied) that I should not be talking to, or working with, policy makers (and the state) to change policies that promote or lead to gentrification, I should be protesting out on the street. This “critical geography” position was pointed out by Harvey (1974), and has been summarized by Boyle et al (2020: 98): “lest their intellectual labor be appropriated, academic freedom impaired, and capacity for criticality compromised, there must exist a clear distance if not dissonance between scholars and the corporate state, construed as a ‘proto-fascist’ technocratic instrument to preserve and strengthen the status quo.” In Lees (2022) I discuss the opportunities and the risks :…”

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What Constitutes Engaged Dialogue in Urban Research? Thoughts From a Long Time “Outside-Insider”

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2023

Dialogues in Urban Research

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In this plenary for the new journal Dialogues in Urban Research, I discuss what constitutes (and should constitute going forward) engaged dialogue in urban research. Engaged dialogue is the process of working collaboratively with groups of people, whoever they are, in relation to particular issues that affect them, to understand those issues better. So what does engaged dialogue in urban research look like? Who is engaging with who, where, why, and how? Has it changed over time? Most, if not all, urban research engages beyond academia, but that engaged dialogue rarely makes it into the pages of academic journals in an inclusionary way. Who usually takes part in conversations on urban research in journals, but also who does not (or is less likely to), and who should? In a new world of publishing and government-funded research that is promoting open access, making research more publicly accessible and inclusive, there has been much less discussion of those engaged in the dialogue that is published. And, if academics do publish with nonacademics it is not usually in an academic journal; this is not inclusive, indeed it is exclusionary.

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“…After reading this book, any idea that radical geography was somehow a privileged episode of the history of geography, where the ugly side of academic politics and feuds were less prominent than other episodes, is shattered. That opens the door to revisiting other episodes of the history of geography: from regional geography, human-land relations, the dirty hands of applied geographers (Boyle et al 2020), and the growth of feminist geography through an equally critical empathic historiographical lens. I am not sure whether that was the editors' intention, but the methodology of Spatial Histories of Radical Geography has surely opened Pandora's box.…”

Section: Commentary By Michiel Van Meeteren School Of Social Sciences and Humanities Loughborough University Loughborough Ukmentioning

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“…The trajectory of this strand, which articulates with debates about geography and public policy and relevance are at the margins of Spatial Histories of Radical Geography. They would further complicate the story (Boyle et al 2020).…”

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