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Rethinking the 'local state'

Dates:28 February 2024
Times:15:00 - 15:00
What is it:Seminar
Organiser:School of Environment, Education and Development
Who is it for:University staff, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public
Speaker:Madeleine Pill
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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.

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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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