London is a major global city which attracts a massive influx of capital while concentrating power and wealth in the hands of the few. Meanwhile, many communities suffer housing shortages, poverty and dispossession. How can its diverse communities fight back against exclusionary regeneration projects?
This accessible book tells the story of the Voice4Deptford campaign in Southeast London, which has taken radical democratic and creative action to resist the destructive influence of neoliberalism at the community level. It shows how top-down change is challenged and, together with case studies from across London, offers powerful ways forward for other urban communities globally.
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This book offers an inspirational Gramscian-based critique of neoliberalism and regeneration in Deptford, London and importantly highlights how communities can oppose redevelopment which is not done "in their name".' Paul Watt, London School of Economics 'A master class in how globalisation and capitalism combined, when poorly constrained, eroded trust and splintered community...revealing how austerity urbanism was the wolf that dressed itself in sheep's clothing of regeneration and redevelopment.' Danny Dorling, University of Oxford
Introduction - Roger Green and Keith Popple
1. Neoliberalism and Increasing Inequality - Keith Popple
2. Challenging the Neoliberal Hegemony - Keith Popple
3. Cranes in the Sky: The Remaking of London - Roger Green, with Malcolm
Cadman, Andy Turner, Marion Briggs and Tony Nickson
4. Deptford: Community and Change - Roger Green, with Marion Briggs, Malcolm
Cadman, Warda Farah, Joyce Jacca, Richard Katona, Tony Nickson and Andy
Turner
5. Defiance and Resistance: The Voice4Deptford Campaign - Roger Green, with
Andy Turner, Malcolm Cadman, Marion Briggs, Vanessa Celosse, Warda Farah,
Joyce Jacca, Richard Katona, Tony Nickson, Kenneth M. Thomas and other
members and supporters of the campaign
6. Confronting the Developers - Roger Green, with Malcolm Cadman
7. Whose City? Communities versus Capital - Roger Green and Keith Popple
Roger Green is Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Urban and Community Research at Goldsmiths, University of London and Vice-Chair of the Voice4Deptford Campaign. An urban sociologist and community activist, he has worked alongside urban communities in London, the UK, Europe and globally promoting community voices and action. An advocate of communities know best supporting co-production and participatory action research methodologies.
Keith Popple is a researcher, author and Emeritus Professor of Social Work at London South Bank University. He has contributed widely to the areas of social work, community development and social policy. He is editor and contributor to several books including as author of Analysing Community Work: Theory and Practice (Open University Press).
