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This book provides concrete examples of the ways in which shifting academic debates, policy and political approaches have impacted on a specific place over the past 30 years. It offers a critical analysis of the history, politics and social geography of the high profile London Borough of Haringey. The Haringey case study acts as a lens through which to explore the evolution of theoretical and policy debates about the relationship between local institutions and the communities they serve. Focusing on the policy areas of planning and regeneration, it considers the local implementation and outcome of central government strategies that have sought to achieve such accountability and responsiveness through community participation strategies. It examines how the local authority responded to central government aspirations for greater community involvement in planning, in the 1970s, and regeneration, from the late 1980s onwards, before looking in detail at the implementation of New Labour neighbourhood renewal and local governance policy in the borough. In doing so, the book provides a longitudinal case study on how various central government community empowerment agendas have played out at a local level. In doing so, it offers important lessons and indicates how they might work more effectively in future.
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Professor Bryan Fanning, School of Applied Social Science University College Dublin, Ireland, and Dr Denis Dillon, Birkbeck College,University of London, UK.
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This book has just been published. On the back cover it is described as providing "a critical examination of the history, politics and social geography" of Haringey and offering "important lessons" about community empowerment agendas. Well, that sounds interesting!
Unfortunately the book is a great disappointment. It is poorly written (with no evidence of any proof-reading), repetitive, full of jargon, much too long, says little (except the "bleeding obvious") and is full of minor and major factual inaccuracies.
I'll mention a few of the errors to give a flavour of the book. Lord Gifford produced the report of the1985 Broadwater Farm riot. In this book his report is consistently called the "Gyford Report". Hornsey Town Hall is described as a nineteenth century building whereas it was built in the 1930s and it is Grade II* listed (not Grade II). Wood Green is constantly referred to as Woodgreen. Boris Johnson's name is misspelt. And of course, the authors don't know the difference between "its" and "it's". It might be argued that some of these are not important but cumulatively they say something about the quality of the book.
There are pages of often repetitive theoretical jargon. The authors never use a straightforward term when a complex word is available. I could have put up with this if there were some serious empirical research but there is a lack of real content. Glib statements are made. No real evidence is presented. It would have been interesting to read an analysis of government planning policy since the 1970s and how public involvement has changed. It would have been interesting to read how the changes affected Haringey. We don't get this.
What has happened to academic research? How did this work get two higher degrees and an academic publication? Did they not have supervisors? This is the worst example of an academic publication I have seen.
My perspective? For fifteen years I lectured in sociology so I have some familiarity with the theories and concepts. For the past nine years I have been involved in community organisations across Haringey, starting with my own residents' group in Hornsey, then Haringey Federation of Residents Associations, Haringey Friends of Parks Forum, Tottenham Civic Society, Tottenham CAAC and Sustainable Haringey. What I find really disturbing is the inaccurate presentation of groups and events that I have been involved in. From this I assume that one should put no trust in any other part of the book.
Unfortunately the book is a great disappointment. It is poorly written (with no evidence of any proof-reading), repetitive, full of jargon, much too long, says little (except the "bleeding obvious") and is full of minor and major factual inaccuracies.
I'll mention a few of the errors to give a flavour of the book. Lord Gifford produced the report of the1985 Broadwater Farm riot. In this book his report is consistently called the "Gyford Report". Hornsey Town Hall is described as a nineteenth century building whereas it was built in the 1930s and it is Grade II* listed (not Grade II). Wood Green is constantly referred to as Woodgreen. Boris Johnson's name is misspelt. And of course, the authors don't know the difference between "its" and "it's". It might be argued that some of these are not important but cumulatively they say something about the quality of the book.
There are pages of often repetitive theoretical jargon. The authors never use a straightforward term when a complex word is available. I could have put up with this if there were some serious empirical research but there is a lack of real content. Glib statements are made. No real evidence is presented. It would have been interesting to read an analysis of government planning policy since the 1970s and how public involvement has changed. It would have been interesting to read how the changes affected Haringey. We don't get this.
What has happened to academic research? How did this work get two higher degrees and an academic publication? Did they not have supervisors? This is the worst example of an academic publication I have seen.
My perspective? For fifteen years I lectured in sociology so I have some familiarity with the theories and concepts. For the past nine years I have been involved in community organisations across Haringey, starting with my own residents' group in Hornsey, then Haringey Federation of Residents Associations, Haringey Friends of Parks Forum, Tottenham Civic Society, Tottenham CAAC and Sustainable Haringey. What I find really disturbing is the inaccurate presentation of groups and events that I have been involved in. From this I assume that one should put no trust in any other part of the book.
Format:Hardcover
I just skimmed a few pages of this and in those few pages counted four serious errors of fact. I changed my mind about buying it. If the authors can't fact check basic stuff from which they then proceed to draw conclusions what credibility does the book have.
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