TY  - SER
AU  - Ormerod, Emma 
AU  -  MacLeod, Gordon  
TI  - Beyond consensus and conflict in housing governance: Returning to the local state/ 
PY  - 2019///
PB  - Sage
KW  - consensus
KW  -  consultation,
KW  - housing regeneration
KW  - local state,
KW  - participation
KW  -  political,
KW  - post-politics,
KW  - promotion
N2  - This article contends that the de-politicizing tendencies in urban planning that are often interpreted through a post-political frame of analysis might alternatively be investigated via the analytical lens of a transforming local state. Examining the formation of entrepreneurial municipal housing strategies in Gateshead, northeast England, the article reveals a recent history of community consensus being manipulated, a technocratic steering of participatory planning and a de-amplifying of dissenting voices. Amid protracted conditions of austerity, the more recent strategy sees Gateshead municipal authority assuming an increasingly ‘promotional’ role, essentially as a housing developer. Placing critical decisions over housing futures within Gateshead Regeneration Partnership, a potentially rough road towards attaining democratic legitimacy is actively being smoothed. These are all trends that are emblematic of a post-political repertoire. However, a more forensic examination reveals how these anti-democratic processes might be more appropriately understood as political accomplishments on the part of those who have been newly incorporated into a local state in transition. The article thereby offers a conceptual antidote to the post-political narrative
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1177/1473095218790988
ER  -