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Decentring Urban Governance: Narratives, Resistance and Contestation

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Bevir M, McKee K & Matthews P (eds.) (2017) Decentring Urban Governance: Narratives, Resistance and Contestation. Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy. New York and London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Decentring-Urban-Governance-Narratives-Resistance-and-Contestation/Bevir-McKee-Matthews/p/book/9781138229372

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.

Keywords
urban governance; housing; regeneration; work; welfare; inequality

StatusPublished
EditorsProfessor Peter Matthews, Professor Kim McKee
FundersUniversity of St Andrews
Title of seriesRoutledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy
Publication date20/09/2017
PublisherRoutledge
Publisher URLhttps://www.routledge.com/…ok/9781138229372
Place of publicationNew York and London
ISBN9781138229372

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Professor Peter Matthews

Professor Peter Matthews

Professor, Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology

Professor Kim McKee

Professor Kim McKee

Professor of Housing & Social Policy, Housing Studies

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