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Dear all
Please see below for details of a one day workshop here at the Open University on 7 March, open to all. The workshop is free to attend but places are limited so you need to register in advance; please email [log in to unmask] if you would like to come.
best wishes
Ellie
WORKSHOP: LOCAL ACTION IN AN ERA OF LOCALISM?
Supported by OpenSpace Research Centre and Centre for Citizenship, Communities and Identities (Families, Relationships and Communities Programme) at the Open University
Thursday 7 March 2013, Library Presentation Room, Walton Hall, The Open University, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, 11am - 4pm
This one day workshop will bring together researchers with an interest in making sense of current UK government urban and social policy around ideas of ‘localism’, and what this means for the experiences of local communities. We are concerned with how political voice and agency might be changing at a local level, especially in disadvantaged neighbourhoods and localities, which are feeling the effects of austerity and welfare cuts. Through two panels of short presentations and discussion, the day will seek to explore questions including:
- How far does ‘localism’ express a real set of changes to practices of urban and social policy governance, and how can the (apparently contradictory) politics of localism best be understood?
- What does the government’s ‘localism’ agenda mean in practice in localities of different scales, and to different actors (eg voluntary and community sector, private sector, local government)?
- What kinds of local or non-local actors have power and agency in this new governance landscape, and what new kinds of spaces for politics or empowerment are being opened up or shut down?
- How does the context of welfare cuts and austerity interact with experiences of localism, both for local government and for those in disadvantaged communities?
- How does the legacy of policy and programmes under the Labour government interact with current policy changes, for example in terms of neighbourhood policy and interventions?
- Are there any signs of more politicised local organising or action outside the state emerging?
PROGRAMME
11.00 Welcome to the day and introductions
11.10 – 12.40 Panel One: Making sense of localism
Speakers: Nick Clarke (Southampton University) and Allan Cochrane (Open University) 'Geographies and Politics of Localism'
Joe Painter (Durham University) 'Localism, urbanism and nostalgia'
Janet Newman (Open University) 'Working the spaces of localism'
12.40 – 13.30 LUNCH
13.30 – 15.15 Panel Two: Localism in practice?
Speakers: Joe Penny (New Economics Foundation) 'The New Austerity and the Big Society'
Sue Brownill (Oxford Brookes University) 'Neighbourhood Planning and Localism'
Catherine DuRose (Birmingham University) 'Front line workers as local brokers'
Liz Richardson (Manchester University) 'Managing risk and accountability in localism'
Ellie Jupp (Open University) 'Localism and neighbourhood activism'
1530 Final discussion and close
Dr Eleanor Jupp
Research Associate - Health and Social Care
The Open University
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA
http://hsc-people.open.ac.uk/e.jupp
New ESRC seminar series www.homespaceseminars.org
Recent publications: Jupp, E (2012) Rethinking Local Activism: cultivating the capacticies of neighbourhood organising, Urban Studies, November 2012, vol. 49 no. 14, pp 3027-3044
Jupp, E and Inch, A (2012) Planning as Profession in Uncertain Times, Town Planning Review, 83(5), pp. 505–512
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