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The civilizing process: partnership working revisited

Lever, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2188-8518 2012. The civilizing process: partnership working revisited. Presented at: Norbert Elias and Figurational Sociology: Prospects for the Future, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2–4 April 2012.

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Abstract

In previous work on urban regeneration partnerships (Lever 2011) I examined the changing relationship between the institutions of the state and the civilizing process. I explored partnerships in a similar way to figurational accounts of ‘welfare regimes’ (de Swaan 1989) and ‘meeting regimes’ (van Vree 1997), as collaborative processes that have the potential to bring antagonistic groups together in the search for common solutions to pressing social problems. Despite the civilizing potential of the partnership approach under the previous New Labour government, I concluded that an inauthentic institutional framework often hindered the ability of those working in partnership to make choices in a way that addressed the problems specific communities faced. Individuals and organisations were, I argued, often coerced to work in partnership in ways that allowed New Labour to prioritise their own agenda over and above the concerns and needs of these communities. And it was this process, I argued, that often heightened sensitivities about young people, crime and anti social behaviour. My current research on which this paper is based, confirms my previous proposition that partnership work has the potential to be the motor of the civilizing process, whilst simultaneously demonstrating how the withdrawal of state funding for partnership work under the Coalition Government is undermining the institutional and social fabric on which this success stands.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Date Type: Completion
Status: Unpublished
Schools: Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
Last Modified: 21 Oct 2022 09:12
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/35575

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