ABSTRACT
Decentring Urban Governance seeks to rethink governance not as a particular state formation, but as the diverse policies emerging associated with the impact of modernist social science on policy making, considering the diverse meanings that inspire governing practices across time, space, and policy sectors in urban context.
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the book goes beyond neoliberalism, and is interested in other webs of meaning through which actors encounter, interpret, and evaluate social science, which have received less analytical attention. All these different webs of meaning – elite narratives, social science, and local traditions – influence patterns of action. The book creates an analytical space by which to consider situated agency and localised resistance to the discourses and policies of political elites, including the myriad ways in which local actors have resisted practices of governance on the ground.
This text will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners of urban governance, governance and more broadly to the social sciences, housing, social policy, law and welfare studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 13I|52 pages
The individual and urban governance
chapter 2|23 pages
Foucault’s duel
chapter 3|27 pages
Youth unemployment, interdependence and power
part 65II|72 pages
Social groups and urban governance
chapter 5|26 pages
What difference do rights make?
part 137III|70 pages
Law and policy and urban governance