The austerity governance of Baltimore’s neighborhoods: “The conversation may have changed but the systems aren’t changing”

《The austerity governance of Baltimore’s neighborhoods: “The conversation may have changed but the systems aren’t changing”》

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作者: Madeleine Pill

来源: JOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS,Vol.42,Issue1,P.143-158

语言: 英文

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作者单位: The University of Sydney

摘要: The governance of neighborhood redevelopment and revitalization in Baltimore demonstrates the normalization of the logics and practices of austerity governance and the concomitant challenge of governance transformation. Analysis of tiers of governance activity refines understanding of the state–society relationships of austerity governance, characterized by the local state’s absence with the exception of its basic function of (over)policing of the most marginalized. The elites governing Baltimore are corporate developers, major “ed and med” anchor institutions, and nationally operating private philanthropies, with a mix of other nonprofit organizations, anchor institutions, and philanthropies playing roles at the middle and lower tiers. Citizens are excluded from these opaque governance arrangements. Mainstream regime analysis argues for incremental change in response to challenges such as that posed by the uprising in the city in 2015. But the analysis highlights that the city’s iniquitous governance requires the ideological challenge posited by urban governance theory.Additional informationAuthor informationMadeleine PillMadeleine Pill is a Lecturer in Public Policy at the University of Sydney. She researches the theory and practice of governance and collaboration, with a particular focus on state–society relationships at the urban/local and neighborhood scales in the UK and the United States. She has published work on the scope for and limits to state and citizen action at the local level in a context of austerity politics, regarding the changing use of the neighborhood scale amidst increased expectations of citizen self-help, shifts in local government policy and practice, and the roles played by other, non-state actors such as philanthropic foundations.FundingThe research was conducted as part of the Collaborative Governance Under Austerity study funded by the British Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) (award number ES/L012898/1).AcknowledgmentsMany thanks to all those in Baltimore who made time to participate in the research and to the six anonymous reviewers for their insightful and helpful comments.