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New Labour and Community Protests: the Case of the Govanhill Swimming Pool Campaign, Glasgow

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  • Gerry Mooney

    (The Open University, UK)

  • Nick Fyfe

    (The University of Dundee, Scotland, UK)

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Taking the case study of a community based protest against the closure of a swimming pool in Glasgow, this paper seeks to raise important critical questions about some of the key ideas informing New Labour's urban policy agenda: social capital and active community. It argues that normative notions of active citizenship seriously conflict with bottom-up community protests, highlighting in the process issues of power and inequality. Against claims that New Labour is promoting government through community, here we claim that in the context of this community protest, there was government against community.

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  • Gerry Mooney & Nick Fyfe, 2006. "New Labour and Community Protests: the Case of the Govanhill Swimming Pool Campaign, Glasgow," Local Economy, London South Bank University, vol. 21(2), pages 136-150, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:loceco:v:21:y:2006:i:2:p:136-150
    DOI: 10.1080/02690940500472426
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    1. Adam Holden & Kurt Iveson, 2003. "Designs on the urban: New Labour's urban renaissance and the spaces of citizenship," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 7(1), pages 57-72, April.
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    1. Andrew Wallace, 2010. "New Neighbourhoods, New Citizens? Challenging ‘Community’ as a Framework for Social and Moral Regeneration under New Labour in the UK," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 34(4), pages 805-819, December.

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