Neoliberalism and Urban Regeneration

London's Communities Finding a Voice and Fighting Back
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5292-4395-6
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

London is a major global city which attracts a massive influx of capital while concentrating power and wealth in the hands of the few. Meanwhile, many communities suffer housing shortages, poverty and dispossession. How can its diverse communities fight back against exclusionary regeneration projects?

This accessible book tells the story of the Voice4Deptford campaign in Southeast London, which has taken radical democratic and creative action to resist the destructive influence of neoliberalism at the community level. It shows how top-down change is challenged and, together with case studies from across London, offers powerful ways forward for other urban communities globally.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Green, Roger

Popple, Keith

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - Roger Green and Keith Popple

1. Neoliberalism and Increasing Inequality - Keith Popple

2. Challenging the Neoliberal Hegemony - Keith Popple

3. ‘Cranes in the Sky’: The Remaking of London - Roger Green, with Malcolm Cadman, Andy Turner, Marion Briggs and Tony Nickson

4. Deptford: Community and Change - Roger Green, with Marion Briggs, Malcolm Cadman, Warda Farah, Joyce Jacca, Richard Katona, Tony Nickson and Andy Turner

5. Defiance and Resistance: The Voice4Deptford Campaign - Roger Green, with Andy Turner, Malcolm Cadman, Marion Briggs, Vanessa Celosse, Warda Farah, Joyce Jacca, Richard Katona, Tony Nickson, Kenneth M. Thomas and other members and supporters of the campaign

6. Confronting the Developers - Roger Green, with Malcolm Cadman

7. Whose City? Communities versus Capital - Roger Green and Keith Popple

Über Autor(innen)

Roger Green is Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Urban and Community Research at Goldsmiths, University of London and Vice-Chair of the Voice4Deptford Campaign. An urban sociologist and community activist, he has worked alongside urban communities in London, the UK, Europe and globally promoting community voices and action. An advocate of ‘communities know best’ supporting co-production and participatory action research methodologies.

Keith Popple is a researcher, author and Emeritus Professor of Social Work at London South Bank University. He has contributed widely to the areas of social work, community development and social policy. He is editor and contributor to several books including as author of Analysing Community Work: Theory and Practice (Open University Press).