Theorising participation in urban regeneration partnerships: an adult education perspective

Galvin, Martin; Simmie, Geraldine Mooney

doi:10.1080/02680939.2017.1320731

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“…Th e issue of citizen participation in urban regeneration decision-making is usually conceptualized with the concept of governance ( Farrelly and Sullivan 2010;Atkinson et al 2019). Some researchers posit alternative approaches, drawing, for instance, on Lefebvre's notion of space, Engeström's Cultural Historical Activity Th eory and Holand and colleagues concept of positionality and social identity (Galvin and Mooney Simmie 2017). Th ese perspectives are useful for examining citizens' involvement in policymaking as a transformative process of civic education and development.…”

Section: Democratic Urban Regeneration Policymakingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Th e local young people studied used dichotomies to describe the residential mix resulting from the change, distinguishing 'us' (the established poor residents) and 'them' (the rich newcomers). More recently, Galvin and Mooney Simmie (2017) focus on contradictions between the Irish urban regeneration discourses of offi cials and those of residents and community workers. Th e latter wanted to keep the community together and to protect it against fragmentation and gentrifi cation.…”

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Discourse Construction by Non-Government Actors in Urban Regeneration Governance

Zubrzycka-Czarnecka

2021

Polish Political Science Review

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This paper employs critical discourse analysis to examine how Warsaw citizens (residents) perceived and organized the narratives of their participation in the governance of urban regeneration between 2004 and 2016 and how this evolved over that period. The study reveals citizens’ discursive practices, such as the construction of positive and negative identities of the relevant social actors, the binary opposition between ‘us and them’, the development of new interpretations of urban regeneration, and finally, the gradual elaboration of a model of empowered citizenship. Drawing on the concept of democratic urban regeneration policymaking, the research suggests that in the case of Warsaw, one can speak of a shift from a citizen discourse of rebellious participation in non-deliberative governance towards one of more consensual and empowering participation in more deliberative governance.

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Section: Democratic Urban Regeneration Policymakingmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Discourse Construction by Non-Government Actors in Urban Regeneration Governance

Zubrzycka-Czarnecka

2021

Polish Political Science Review

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“…We explore what our participants said about each of these questions focusing on the agentic relationship between the dual-status academic, their thesis progress and their wider community. Initially, we outline the basic tenets of CHAT (Engeström, 2015), and then discuss the applicability of this framework to the study of adult educational contexts (Galvin & Mooney Simmie, 2017). Our data, drawn from narrative accounts is analysed paradigmatically (Polkinghorne, 1995), to foreground benefits and tensions in relation to three interdependent activity systems (thesis, work and home), highlighting the particularities of dual-status academics.…”

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“…We surmised that these two goalscontinued employment and doctoral attainmentmay conflict, and an illustration of potential tensions is given in Figure 1. As Galvin and Mooney Simmie (2017) suggest, in an adult learning context set within the neoliberal regime that currently characterises much of higher education, a 'humanisation discourse' (p. 2) is needed. CHAT, by foregrounding the various elements of complex activity systems allows an exploration of such discourse.…”

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Juggling competing activities: academic staff as doctoral candidates

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Higher Education Research & Development

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This article explores the experiences of a group of established academic staff in New Zealand and the United Kingdom, as they undertake a doctorate in their home institutions. Our interest is in how individuals negotiate this dual status from a cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) stance which explores how rules, tools, community and divisions of labour, and interacting activity systems, shape doctoral experiences. The focus in this article, having analysed their detailed narrative accounts, is on how academics experience three interdependent activity systems: those surrounding the thesis, the institutional context, and the home-life spheres. Issues related to time, workload and supervision issues, variability in collegial support and impact on personal priorities and time emerged. There is a range of particularitiesfrom easy access to resources/supervisors, to inflexible institutional regulationsapplicable to this group of doctoral candidates. Negotiating life as an academic with concurrent doctoral candidature provides positive outcomes in terms of teaching, research confidence and general personal and professional development. However, a range of difficulties can also be encountered, particularly in relation to personal and professional relationships, and workload management.

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“…However, Meegan and Mitchell (2001) emphasized the place in urban regeneration projects for social inclusion by showing how Liverpool changed the area of neighborhoods to integrate natural neighborhoods, which are built on strong civil society groups. Similarly, Galvin and Mooney Simmie (2017) approached civic participation in urban renewal from an adult education perspective, the so-called expansive participation, which requires project initiators to learn to understand marginalized community members rather than educating them. Recently, community regeneration was also discussed, which is urban regeneration initiated by strong communities and grass root organizations as an alternative to austerity urbanism (Nevin & Shiner, 1995;Pradel-Miquel, 2021;Rabbiosi, 2016).…”

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Obstacles to emancipation in neighborhood regeneration: The case study of Dong Gang New Town, Suzhou

2022

Urbana

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In recent years a neighborhood regeneration policy has been implemented at the Chinese national level to tackle deprivation in old neighborhoods. This article elucidates neighborhood regeneration based on concepts of neighborhood, social innovative urban governance, and social capital using the case study of Dong Gang New Town in Suzhou Industrial Park. The findings show that the implementation of the neighborhood regeneration policy has no significant impact on the neighborhood governance. In addition, findings indicate that the regeneration process was not emancipated, although some of residents’ needs were met by the regeneration. The results also show that this is due to weak linking social capital among resident, non-government organizations and the local government. This article concludes with policy suggestions on local organizations’ role to improve neighborhood governance for better neighborhood physical environments in Dong Gang New Town

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Theorising participation in urban regeneration partnerships: an adult education perspective

Cited by 8 publications

References 75 publications

Discourse Construction by Non-Government Actors in Urban Regeneration Governance

Discourse Construction by Non-Government Actors in Urban Regeneration Governance

Juggling competing activities: academic staff as doctoral candidates

Obstacles to emancipation in neighborhood regeneration: The case study of Dong Gang New Town, Suzhou

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