Alternatives to the “New Urban Politics”: finding locality and autonomy in local economic development |
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Authors: | James DeFilippis |
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Institution: | Rutgers University, Department of Geography, Lucy Stone Hall, Livingston Campus, 54 Joyce Kilmer Avenue, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA |
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Abstract: | The New Urban Politics (or NUP) of local economic development has become one of the dominant themes in urban political economy in the last twenty years. But despite the volume of research this has generated, basic problems remain in the theories that underlie this academic and political work. This paper begins with a discussion of the understandings of the central concepts of locality and autonomy in the NUP. These understandings of locality and autonomy are then criticized for failing to recognize the relational and processual character of both of these constructs. Local autonomy is then retheorized as the capacity to control the production of place. In particular, the paper focuses on groups constructing institutions and relationships of local ownership. These organizations, it is argued, have combined the goals of local autonomy and local economic development, and in so doing have produced new localities in the places in which they are organizing. |
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Keywords: | Local autonomy Local economic development Community development New Urban Politics |
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