TY - JOUR
T1 - The community leadership and place-shaping roles of english local government
T2 - Synergy or tension?
AU - Madden, Adrian
PY - 2010/4
Y1 - 2010/4
N2 - 'Community leadership' and 'place-shaping' embody the outward-facing orientation of English local government to engage local communities in deliberative governance. The apparent synergies between them suggest they might be complementary roles yet one emphasizes 'sense of direction' while the other stresses 'sense of place'. What do they mean in practice? Evidence of the impact of community leadership since 2000 suggests the engagement of communities into community governance spaces such as Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs) has been partially successful. Rather than empowering participation in governance spaces, community power has been concentrated into the hands of political and managerial elites. Policy statements since 2006 have emphasized a need for councils to exert strong local leadership. Do community leadership and place-shaping provide a complementary governance framework, or does place-shaping indicates a shift away from a normative and problematic model of community empowerment? Using Bourdieu's notion of the social space, this article considers the nature of 'governance space' and its role in a changing model of community governance.
AB - 'Community leadership' and 'place-shaping' embody the outward-facing orientation of English local government to engage local communities in deliberative governance. The apparent synergies between them suggest they might be complementary roles yet one emphasizes 'sense of direction' while the other stresses 'sense of place'. What do they mean in practice? Evidence of the impact of community leadership since 2000 suggests the engagement of communities into community governance spaces such as Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs) has been partially successful. Rather than empowering participation in governance spaces, community power has been concentrated into the hands of political and managerial elites. Policy statements since 2006 have emphasized a need for councils to exert strong local leadership. Do community leadership and place-shaping provide a complementary governance framework, or does place-shaping indicates a shift away from a normative and problematic model of community empowerment? Using Bourdieu's notion of the social space, this article considers the nature of 'governance space' and its role in a changing model of community governance.
KW - Community governance
KW - Community leadership
KW - Place-shaping
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77952138643&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0952076709356861
DO - 10.1177/0952076709356861
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77952138643
SN - 0952-0767
VL - 25
SP - 175
EP - 193
JO - Public Policy and Administration
JF - Public Policy and Administration
IS - 2
ER -