| Abstrakt: |
Recent British urban policy has pursued 'regeneration'. This article offers a critical reflection on this pervasive metaphor. 'Regeneration' is a signifier of profound change in many religious traditions and political ideologies, both radical and conservative. In practice, however, the more conservative meanings, deriving from individualistic spiritualities and 'psychologisms', sociological organicism and statist interventionism, remain dominant. Hence, for all its 'holistic' and 'inclusive' novelty, contemporary urban regeneration preserves some familiar limitations of perspective. In particular, in its quest for 'social inclusion', often the 'excluders' are not in view and the 'excluded' are not in focus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
