Reconsidering Localism (Paperback)

Chapter 1: Introduction  Part One: The Local in Localism  Chapter 2: Localism: Institutions, territories, representations  Chapter 3: Paradoxes of local planning in contested societies  Chapter 4: Localism agendas and post-political trends: Neighbourhood policy trajectories in Denver  Chapter 5: Localism and the ‘post-social’ governmentality  Part Two: Localism and Democracy  Chapter 6: Civic capacity, place governance and progressive localism  Chapter 7: The Promise of democracy? Civic enterprise, localism and the transformation of democratic capitalism  Chapter 8: The community capacity to plan: The disproportionate requirements of the new English neighbourhood planning initiative  Chapter 9: Is small really beautiful: The legitimacy of neighbourhood planning?  Part Three: Localism and Sustainability   Chapter 10: Avoiding collapse: An agenda for degrowth and relocalisation  Chapter 11: ‘Localism’ and the environment: Effective re-scaling for sustainability transition?  Chapter 12: Localism, scale and place in claims for sustainable urbanism: Moving beyond the idealist and materialist  Chapter 13: Localism and rural development  Chapter 14: Epilogue: Promises and pitfalls of localism