Rethinking the 'local state'
| Dates: | 28 February 2024 |
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| Times: | 15:00 - 15:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Environment, Education and Development |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public |
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| Speaker: | Madeleine Pill |
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Geography Department Research Seminars
Speaker: Madeleine Pill
Chair: Christina Temenos
In the extremely centralised UK our tendency to focus on the constraints of central-local relations encourages zero sum understandings of local capacity. Scholarship has tracked shifts in relational conceptualisations of local governance, but our understandings have not fully considered the generative capacity of collaborative relations. Rethinking local governance entails a more plural (state and society), participatory conceptualisation of an active ‘local state’ that broadens and disperses the range and types of agency, expertise, authority and resources that it can muster to care for place.
Speaker
Madeleine Pill
Role: Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Organisation: University of Sheffield
Biography: Madeleine Pill is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Sheffield. Her research focuses on the theory and practice of governance and collaboration at the local level, explored in Governing Cities: Politics and Policy (2021, Palgrave). She has researched the impacts of austerity in the UK and US, including the use of co-production in Cardiff and civil society responses to carceral governance in Baltimore. She has also examined the state rescaling implications of policy translation from the UK to Australia.
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