Leading migration researcher Louise Ryan’s topical and intersectional book provides rich insights into migrants’ social networks.
It draws on more than 200 interviews with migrants who followed various transnational routes in every decade since the 1940s, in order to build valuable longitudinal perspectives and comparisons. With a particular focus on London, it charts how social networks are formed and sustained, how trust is developed and how social support is accessed, and explores the key opportunities and obstacles that migrants encounter.
This is a seminal fusion of migration studies and social network analysis that casts new light on both subjects, essential for those interested in immigration, ethnicity, diversity and inequalities.
55 THREE The limits of network governance Introduction Chapter Two suggested that there is little direct empirical evidence pointing to the emergence of authentic connectionist practices. On the contrary, much of the literature highlights barriers to this outcome. This chapter explores key themes in the critical literatures, highlighting the empirical basis for a critique of network governance theory: that it misreads both past and present, that governance networks are prone to resolving into hierarchies and incremental closure, that they reproduce
21 2 Communities, networks and social capital Yvonne Rydin Introduction The last chapter explored the promise and challenges of community planning and made it clear that collective action to shape neighbourhoods cannot be taken for granted. There is a key issue involved: enabling the dynamics by which a group of people come together to develop and implement a vision for their locality. This chapter uses the concepts of networks and social capital to understand these dynamics more fully. It begins by building on the discussion of the previous chapter on
The public sector is going through a period of fundamental change. Service delivery, policy making and policy processes are being carried out by new actors and organisations with new interests, methods and discourses, related to the emergence of new forms of governance.
This timely book from bestselling author Stephen Ball and Carolina Junemann uses network analysis and interviews with key actors to address these changes, with a particular focus on education and the increasingly important role of new philanthropy. Critically engaging with the burgeoning literature on new governance, they present a new method for researching governance - network ethnography- which allows identification of the increasing influence of finance capital and education businesses in policy and public service delivery.
In a highly original and very topical analysis of the practical workings of the Third Way and the Big Society, the book will be useful to practicing social and education policy analysts and theorists and ideal supplementary reading for students and researchers of social and education policy.
587© The Policy Press, 2012 • ISSN 0305 5736 Key words: governance • networks • overview • new public governance Policy & Politics vol 40 no 4 • 587–606 (2012) • http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/030557312X655431 Governance network theory: past, present and future Erik-Hans Klijn and Joop Koppenjan This article argues that governance network theory (GNT) has developed into a fully fledged theory that has gained prominence within public administration. The emergence of New Public Governance opens up new challenges, however, and instead of governance networks and
425 Policy & Politics • vol 43 • no 3 • 425-41 • © Policy Press 2015 • #PPjnl @policy_politics Print ISSN 0305 5736 • Online ISSN 1470 8442 • http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/030557315X14350831088019 Scaling up networks for starving artists Ben Farr-Wharton, ben.farr-wharton@scu.edu.au Robyn Keast, robyn.keast@scu.edu.au Southern Cross University, Australia Creative industries development strategies have largely adopted a regionally embedded cluster platform to enhance the economic contribution of the sector. Such an isolated approach has done little to curb
Do digital networks make a difference to the scope, scale and severity of social harm? Considering four distinct digital affordances for crime (access, concealment, evasion and incitement) this book asks whether they are simply new packaging for old problems, with no greater effect on society overall – or is cyberculture significantly escalating illegality?
Matthew David gives fresh insights into online harms and behaviours in the fields of hate, obscenity, corruptions of citizenship and appropriation, offering a comprehensive and integrated approach for those both new and experienced in the field of cybercrime.
139 CHAPTER SEVEN Scaling up networks for starving artists Ben Farr-Wharton and Robyn Keast Introduction An increasing number of countries are adopting a creative industries policy platform, combining the film, digital, media, music, performing arts and design segments under one banner to stimulate economic development. A key reason for this is that the innovation generated by those that work in the creative industries (henceforth ‘creative workers’) appears to produce significant spill-over effects across multiple economic sectors, while requiring little
163 TEN Active citizenship and the emergence of networks Introduction As we have argued throughout this book, active citizenship involves agency. Turner (1992), among others, emphasises the importance of people shaping rights and obligations through their participation in society, as active rather than passive citizens. Humans are viewed as autonomous self-determining beings, as agents who shape and change society (Touraine, 2000). This approach places agency at the centre of societal development. Crucially, the focus on agency has opened up citizenship
of a complex web of often – although not exclusively – sectarian networks that cut across sovereign borders and help Tehran to achieve its geopolitical aims. Yet the reality of relations between Iran and local groups is far more complex, determined by a range of factors. In the years after the Arab Uprisings, relations between rulers and ruled have become increasingly frayed, leading to political contestation in a number of states across the Middle East. Amid this contestation, political organisation began to fragment, leading to conditions of uncertainty
