Active Citizenship and Local Governance in the Case of Cressingham Gardens: Agonism or Antagonism?
This paper utilizes the concepts of agonism and antagonism to further the existing analysis of active citizenship within local governance. At present, this relationship is taking place as housing stock increasingly becomes the subject of financialization. Embedded in this context, and with a particu...
| Published in: | Housing, Theory & Society Vol. 38; no. 4; pp. 476 - 496 |
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Sep2021
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