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An in-depth account of community organising in post-industrial areas, told in organisers' own voices.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction: Local Heroes and Socially Entrepreneurial Communities
Chapter 2: The Political Discourse of Social Capital: Turning Conflict into Consensus?
Chapter 3: The Politics of Community: Optimism of the Will in the East Midlands
Chapter 4: Place: Locality and Political Economy
Chapter 5: Process: Making Social Capitalists
Chapter 6: People and Politics: Citizens, the State and Localism in Practice
Chapter 7: Conclusions: High Hopes and Localism in Practice
Bibliography
Appendix: Abbreviations

About the author

Heather Watkins is a Senior Lecturer in European Studies at Nottingham Trent University. Her research focuses on tensions between democracy and neoliberalism, with a particular interest in localism and decentralised politics as a response to the effects of globalisation.

Summary

An in-depth account of community organising in post-industrial areas, told in organisers’ own voices.

Product details

• Authors: Heather Watkins, Watkins Heather
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781786612731
• ISBN: 978-1-78661-273-1
• Series: Studies in Social and Global Justice; Studies in Social and Global J
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Political science & theory, Trade Unions, Political Economy, Industrial arbitration & negotiation