Bringing democracy back home: Community localism and the domestication of political space

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 642-657

  Bradley, Quintin ^a  

^a LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community; Localism; Participation; Performativity; Place; Scale

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DEMOCRACY; EMPOWERMENT; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; POLITICAL POWER; POLITICAL SYSTEM; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

EID: 84906046599     PISSN: 02637758     EISSN: 14723433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/d17312     Document Type: Article

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