Toward Understanding the Changing Politics of U.S. Cities: A Political Development Approach

Stone, Clarence N.; Whelan, Robert K.

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“…These case studies suggest that youth can play an important role not just in education organizing (which has been garnering increasing attention), but in neighborhood revitalization as well (Checkoway, 2011; Shirley, 2009; Stone & Whelan, 2011). In some ways, the interviewees’ testimonies better define the relationship between critical pedagogy and community development by articulating what it is not rather than what it is.…”

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From Toxic Tours to Growing the Grassroots: Tensions in Critical Pedagogy and Community Development

Jagninski

2013

Journal of Urban Affairs

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Structural inequalities in American public education are inextricably tied to deep‐seated patterns of racial and economic segregation. Children in poor neighborhoods are less likely to have the household resources, neighborhood institutions, or school amenities necessary for a good, challenging education. In response, a growing number of organizations have launched initiatives to simultaneously revitalize neighborhoods and improve public education, emphasizing youth participation as an essential component in their efforts. We draw upon ethnographic data from two such organizations to examine their practice of place‐based critical pedagogy in community development. We focus on how they engage marginalized, “hard‐to‐reach” youth via (1) experiential learning, to counter high‐stakes testing models and cultivate a sense of ownership in the local community, and (2) empowered deliberative action, in contextualized ways. The tensions embedded in these organizations’ complex efforts have implications for other groups of marginalized youth engaged in community development, especially in their attempts to help students gain concrete outcomes in community development and achieve long‐term sustainability.

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From Toxic Tours to Growing the Grassroots: Tensions in Critical Pedagogy and Community Development

Jagninski

2013

Journal of Urban Affairs

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“…Admirably, no one seems to be wrestling with this problem more forcefully than Stone himself. Instead of digging in his heels and defending regime analysis in its current form, Stone has spent the past several years frankly acknowledging regime theory’s current shortcomings and presenting ideas for moving forward, most recently in this issue (see also Stone 2012, 2013; Stone and Whelen 2009, 2011). Stone’s present argument calls for a broadening of regime analysis that would retain some of regime theory’s core propositions—including the need for public–private cooperation as a means of generating resources needed for governance—but also pay greater attention to the issue of change.…”

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Urban Regime Theory and the Problem of Change

Rast

2014

Urban Affairs Review

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The 25th anniversary of the publication of Clarence Stone's Regime Politics presents an opportunity to consider ways of moving forward theoretically in a world that has begun to look much different from postwar Atlanta. In recent years, Stone has turned his attention from stability to change in urban governing arrangements, proposing American political development (APD) as a promising theoretical approach. While broadly in agreement with Stone about the advantages of APD for the study of urban political change, I identify some potential problems with his efforts to combine APD and regime analysis. In particular, I suggest that Stone more fully embrace APD's emphasis on friction and disorder as a driver of change in governing arrangements and that the role of institutions, in addition to informal arrangements, be considered more directly in arguments about how change occurs.

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Toward Understanding the Changing Politics of U.S. Cities: A Political Development Approach

Cited by 2 publications

References 68 publications

From Toxic Tours to Growing the Grassroots: Tensions in Critical Pedagogy and Community Development

From Toxic Tours to Growing the Grassroots: Tensions in Critical Pedagogy and Community Development

Urban Regime Theory and the Problem of Change

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