Locating Localism

Download or read book Locating Localism written by Jane Wills and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of many decades of increasing centralization, localism has been making a decided comeback in recent years. This book explores the development of localism as a new mode of statecraft and its implications for the everyday practice of citizenship. Jane Wills highlights the importance of civic infrastructure to effective engagement of citizens in local decision making, looks at the development of community organizing, neighborhood planning, and community councils, and positions this turn to the local in relationship to the longer geopolitical history of the British state.