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Accepted Paper:
Articulations of value, moral projects and urban development in the North East of England
Sarah Winkler-Reid
(Newcastle University)
Paper short abstract:
Drawing on fieldwork on construction and urban development in the North East of England, I will explore value as an key conceptual device through which professionals articulated the purpose of the work they did and imagined the thriving and caring city and region they envisioned it creating.
Paper long abstract:
Among local politicians and construction industry professionals involved in urban development in the North East of England, 'value' represents an important concept to explain both what they do, and why they are doing it. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the region, I will explore how for these actors, as well as scholars, the conception of value as both multiple and singular, offers a tool through which to understand, in different ways, the complexities of capitalist processes of urban development and what is at stake in these. In the context of both huge capital investment and brutal cuts to welfare provision and government spending, conceptions of value represented an important device through which professionals could harness their moral projects to economic processes. As such value offered a conceptual means through which to imagine the good city and region, one which was both growing and thriving, and able to care for those in need.
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Accepted Paper:
Sarah Winkler-Reid (Newcastle University)
Paper short abstract:
Paper long abstract:
Among local politicians and construction industry professionals involved in urban development in the North East of England, 'value' represents an important concept to explain both what they do, and why they are doing it. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the region, I will explore how for these actors, as well as scholars, the conception of value as both multiple and singular, offers a tool through which to understand, in different ways, the complexities of capitalist processes of urban development and what is at stake in these. In the context of both huge capital investment and brutal cuts to welfare provision and government spending, conceptions of value represented an important device through which professionals could harness their moral projects to economic processes. As such value offered a conceptual means through which to imagine the good city and region, one which was both growing and thriving, and able to care for those in need.
Urban Imaginaries of Prosperity: Ethics and Futurity
Session 1 Wednesday 6 July, 2022, -