Here's an essay about how civil society organising has become dominated by NGOs and the projectariat @damagemag.bsky.social The failed Participatory City project in London Borough of Barking & Dagenham is our example 'Bodiless Bodies: The Rise of Para-Institutions' damagemag.com/2024/06/24/b... - ThreadSky

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mattthompson.bsky.social • 70 days ago

Here's an essay about how civil society organising has become dominated by NGOs and the projectariat
@damagemag.bsky.social

The failed Participatory City project in London Borough of Barking & Dagenham is our example

'Bodiless Bodies: The Rise of Para-Institutions'
https://damagemag.com/2024/06/24/bodiless-bodies-the-rise-of-para-institutions/

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mattthompson.bsky.social•70 days ago

For more on Participatory City and the wider trend of 'participatory experimental urbanism', check out this open access article w/ @colinlorne.bsky.social in @antipodeonline.bsky.social

'Designing a New Civic Economy?'
https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12962

mark37m.bsky.social•70 days ago

Heavy/dense stuff, but interesting for us at Middleton Cooperating where we seem to be working in a space that gets defined by academics as a kind of cross between "radical municipalism" and "participatory experimental urbanism", but to us is just getting the obvious important shit done with people.

mattthompson.bsky.social•70 days ago

the endless academic bullshit of inventing new terms, eh! But in this case participatory experimental urbanism felt apt to pin down a certain trend of NGOisation that isn't so much doing the important shit with people as proving its own concept & hustling for the next public-philanthropic contract!

mark37m.bsky.social•70 days ago

Both are useful frameworks, I think, that help locate and define what we're trying to do - without us fitting into either. We've grown thanks to Lankelly Chase philanthropy and learnt thanks to NEF. Hopefully, we can keep demonstrating a form of "PEU" that has a focus on real local ownership/wealth.

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