Whatever happened to municipal radicalism?

IF 3.3 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers Pub Date : 2023-03-03 DOI:10.1111/tran.12606

Matthew J. Thompson

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Abstract

What can the municipal state do to radically transform urban economies? Local government in countries such as the UK has been historically tasked with delivering public services; rarely extending its remit to economic development, let alone community-led forms promoting economic democracy, at least not since 1980s municipal socialism. But times are changing, and the UK case provides some telling examples of what is now possible. Community wealth building, cooperative development and foundational economy approaches are fast gaining traction in municipalities across the UK, through emergent public-common-philanthropic partnerships with progressive think tanks, cooperative development agencies, community enterprises, foundations and chari-table trusts. This article explores complexifying relations between the state, the cooperative movement and the non-profit industrial complex in the pursuit of sustainable and generative economic development as playing out differently in urban policy experiments in the English cities of Preston and Plymouth. The article contributes to current debates on local state restructuring, municipal statecraft and urban entrepreneurialism by

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地方激进主义怎么了?

市政政府能做些什么来彻底改变城市经济?英国等国的地方政府历来肩负着提供公共服务的任务;很少将其职权范围扩大到经济发展，更不用说以社区为主导的促进经济民主的形式，至少自20世纪80年代的城市社会主义以来没有。但时代在变，英国的案例提供了一些生动的例子，说明现在什么是可能的。通过与进步智库、合作发展机构、社区企业、基金会和慈善信托等新兴的公共-共同-慈善伙伴关系，社区财富建设、合作发展和基础经济方法在英国各地的市政当局迅速获得了吸引力。本文探讨了在追求可持续和生产性经济发展的过程中，国家、合作社运动和非营利性工业联合体之间的复杂关系，这些关系在英国普雷斯顿和普利茅斯的城市政策实验中发挥了不同的作用。本文对当前关于地方政府重组、市政治国方略和城市创业精神的辩论做出了贡献

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