Morphet, JR;
(2010)
The role of alterity in democratic governance discourse: a preliminary response to Bevir's puzzle.
In:
Proceedings of Challenging Orthodoxies: Critical Governance Studies Conference 2010.
University of Warwick: UK.
(In press).
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Abstract
In Democratic Governance (2010) , Bevir has posed the puzzle of what follows high modernism as the dominant determinant of public policy discourse and technologies of governance. This paper will attempt to identify a potential response to Bevir’s puzzle through the use of postcolonial genre and alterity which is now being deployed in democratic discourse by world institutions and being interpreted through localization and decentralization narratives in England by the Coalition Government. Since the mid 1990s, a new genre of governance discourse has been emerging which is not based on the professional dominance of new public management but rather deploys other narratologies of engagement, localism, culture and self management or responsibilisation. It is reliant on the strength of cultural norms as a mechanism for democratic forms and governance arrangements and, where deployed, is seeking to replace hierarchies as a dominant mode. It also can be argued that it offers more extended and associational forms of network and Institutionalist theories The re-patterning of this dialogue and the potential emergence of a new genre appears to owe its provenance to a globalization narrative, where western hierarchic analogies do not have common resonance in the majority of societies. For the west, the process which may be driving this turn can be most closely linked to post-colonialist models, where the periphery is now creating the structures for the centre in a process of alterity which may have profound implications for governance models for the future. This may be a line to follow in responding to Bevir’s puzzle and this paper sets out to examine the claims for such a response.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | The role of alterity in democratic governance discourse: a preliminary response to Bevir's puzzle |
| Event: | Challenging Orthodoxies: Critical Governance Studies Conference 2010 |
| Location: | Warwick, UK |
| Dates: | 13 December 2010 - 14 December 2010 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/events/challen... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Planning |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10088680 |
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