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It is easy to forget how big a deal Mick Hucknall was in the global music business in the 1990s, and the story of how his worldwide success helped build Manchester city centre’s regeneration after the Haçienda led the way is little known. His group Simply Red were an established chart act by the end of the 1980s, and in 1991 the ‘flame-haired singing star’, or the ‘carrot-topped singing sensation’, to use the tabloid descriptors that annoyed him, released the album Stars . In 1991 it
3 Partners in regeneration The structures established to regenerate east Manchester have developed since New Labour’s election in 1997. Some of the structures have had a sole focus on east Manchester while others have operated beyond that geographical area but made a contribution to the work of regeneration in that part of the city in the course of their activity, such as the Local Strategic Partnership (LSP) and the Manchester Partnership (MP). It is also necessary to separate those structures which have a central and long-standing role in the project from
East Manchester was the site of one of the most substantial regeneration projects internationally. Urban regeneration was a central plank of New Labour policy and the approach radically altered with the election of the Coalition Government in 2010. East Manchester was one of the most deprived areas of Britain in 1997, referred to as a ‘basket case’ in dire need of regeneration. This book explores the role of Manchester City Council and other public agencies in the regeneration of the area such as New East Manchester, NDC/Beacons and the Housing Market Renewal Programme; the Manchester voluntary sector and the private sector including the major investments linked to Manchester City Football Club and the Etihad Campus. While the book focuses on a single regeneration initiative, it has wider relevance to national and international regeneration processes. The book assesses the outcome of the regeneration initiative although it demonstrates the difficulties in producing a definitive evaluation. It has a political focus and illuminates and challenges many assumptions underpinning three major current academic debates: governance, participatory democracy and ideology.
8 Who participates in regeneration? This chapter evaluates the nature and extent of resident involvement in regeneration in east Manchester without any a priori assumption of what constitutes ideal democratic practice. Nevertheless, participation does not happen in an ideological vacuum, and we acknowledge that there were several drivers behind resident involvement. The temporal theme is evident in various ways. First, any snapshot view of resident involvement would not do justice to the types and extent of involvement which occurred from 1998 onwards. Our
7 Regeneration and sustainability Introduction This chapter will be divided into three sections. First, there will be an analysis of the concept of sustainability, its application to local communities and what criteria have to be met if we are to achieve sustainable communities. Second, there will be a focus on key strategies at the both the national and local level to regenerate local areas and communities. The spotlight here will be on both physical and social regeneration and as such will be set within the context of our earlier discussion on the nature and
3927 Alden- Reading behind the lines:Layout 1 27/9/13 09:05 Page 52 2 Regenerating the past: fact and fiction in the Regeneration trilogy The way in which Pat Barker uses historical source material in her trilogy of First World War novels has fuelled a considerable amount of debate amongst historians and literary critics alike. As Barker herself says in the ‘Author’s Note’ to the first novel in the trilogy, Regeneration, ‘fact and fiction are so interwoven in this book that it may help the reader to know what is historical and what is not’.1 In
The ideology of urban regeneration initiatives 6 The ideology of urban regeneration initiatives The creation of NEM and its role in working with regeneration partners was no isolated whim, but was related to the ideological climate of British politics in the 1990s and specifically to New Labour’s political goals. Since Britain remains a relatively centralised state it is essential to include an excursus upon the ideological intentions of national policy-makers in this central aspect of public policy. In addressing this, it is desirable to consider the
1 From my generation to regeneration: a ‘post’-script A handbill from Manchester’s Haçienda proclaimed: December 21st HOT THE FINAL PARTY A CELEBRATION OF THE SUMMER OF 88 In this way, the ‘Summer of Love, 88’, itself a reworking of another mythical summer, took its place in the hallowed hall of pop legends. Whilst the 1960s once slipped lazily into the early 1970s, Pop Time had now accelerated with a vengeance –as if reclaiming borrowed time –according the public phenomenon of Acid House little more than a long weekend. Or, as the magazine i-D had it
Trauma realities defy easy access to comprehension and thus require alternative discourses to understand them. This article looks at Pat Barkers employment of the Gothic tropes in the examination and explication of war trauma in her Regeneration trilogy. More pertinently, it scrutinizes the complex relation between Gothicized landscapes and trauma by analyzing three specific sites – Craiglockhart War Hospital, trenches and England as ‘Blighty’ – in the Regeneration trilogy. This article shows traumas destabilizing impact by examining how landscapes become imprinted with trauma. The physical disempowerment of landscapes is further complemented by a psychological disempowerment by examining traumatized patient-soldiers mindscapes and dreamscapes. It further examines how Barker employs tropes of haunting, dreams and nightmares, staple Gothic emotions of fear, terror and horror, Freuds Unheimlich to dispossess the owners control and locates trauma realities lurking therein. Thus Barkers Regeneration narrative bears witness to the phantom realities of war trauma by privileging the uncanny personal histories of traumatized soldiers.
organisations during this period to gain recognition as local support and regeneration structures in their own right and to receive their own funding under government policies and programmes. Many were formed despite rather than as a result of government policies. Though many of these represent the true antecedents of today’s social enterprises, these are seldom reported in most UK academic contributions