Lever, John Urban Regeneration Partnerships: A Figurational Critique of Governmentality Theory Original Citation Lever, John (2011) Urban Regeneration Partnerships: A Figurational Critique of Governmentality

Urban Regeneration Partnerships: a Figurational Critique of Governmentality Theory

This paper provides a critique of governmentally inspired accounts of urban regeneration and partnership working. Drawing on the work of Norbert Elias and prominent figurational sociologists, it discusses the changes taking place within and through the many partnerships set up by New Labour around the notion of ‘community safety’. Whilst recognising the important insights provided by accounts o...

The Governance of Urban Regeneration: A Critique of the ‘Governing without Government’ Thesis

Murtahda Mutahhari and John Stuart Mill's Critique of the Consumeristic Commodification of Culture

Re-theorizing the “Structure–Agency” Relationship: Figurational Theory, Organizational Change and the Gaelic Athletic Association

This article illustrates how the figurational sociology associated with Norbert Elias provides an alternative theoretical framework for explaining the relationship between, ‘individualorganizationsociety’ and organizational change, and in so doing transverses what is conceived as a false dichotomy between structure and agency. Through an historical case study of the Gaelic Athletic Association ...

Art, Gentrification and Regeneration -- From Artist as Pioneer to Public Arts

The role of art and the artist has played a part in both of the main long-established theories of gentrification, looking respectively at ‘culture’ and ‘capital’ as key drivers. Cultural analyses of gentrification have identified the individual artist as an important agent in the initiation of gentrification processes in old working-class neighbourhoods. Alternative theorizations have recognize...