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Lookup NU author(s): Dr David WebbORCiD, Daniel MalloORCiD, Armelle TardiveauORCiD
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This chapter reflects on variations in practice across two instances of street activism in the west end of Newcastle. Both projects shared with the Big Society agenda concerns for local democratic renewal and the foregrounding of community-centred knowledge, as well as an operating context marked by mainstream service retrenchment and piecemeal opportunities for civic funding. However, they also illustrate spatial variations including neighbourhood affluence, level of dependence on the local state and the strength of anchor institutions. Drawing on these, and also thinking longitudinally across a period of deepening austerity, we offer the case studies as a microcosm of broader challenges posed by the Big Society. Finally, we question the limits which austerity places on social innovation and the implications these may have for the civic university agenda in the future.
Author(s): Webb D, Mallo D, Tardiveau A, Emmerson C, Pardoe M, Talbot M
Editor(s): Steer, M; Davoudi, S; Todd, L; Shucksmith, M
Series Editor(s): Steer, M; Davoudi, S; Todd, L; Shucksmith, M
Publication type: Book Chapter
Publication status: Published
Book Title: Hope Under Neoliberal Austerity: Responses from Civil Society and Civic Universities
Year: 2021
Pages: 221-234
Print publication date: 26/04/2021
Online publication date: 26/04/2021
Acceptance date: 02/04/2018
Publisher: Policy Press
Place Published: Bristol
URL: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/hope-under-neoliberal-austerity
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9781447356820
