Francesco Campagnari

The Institutionalisation of Civic Initiatives

Practices, Public Effects and Models of Direct Civic Action in Europe

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book examines two civic initiatives in Europe and analyses their evolution through the institutionalisation of their practices, local public effects, and established models for action at broader scales.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 284g
• ISBN-13: 9781032447537
• ISBN-10: 1032447532
• Artikelnr.: 75233878

Autorenporträt

Francesco Campagnari is an urban scholar. He holds a Marie Sk¿odowska-Curie Fellowship (EF-ST) at the Centre d'étude des mouvements sociaux (Ehess, Paris, France), with a research project exploring the effects of supralocal and translocal relations on direct civic actions of urban transformation. He is also Adjunct professor in Urban and regional planning at Università Iuav di Venezia, Venice, Italy. His research focuses on processes of experience and treatment of urban public problems by direct civic actions, with particular attention to their grammars of problematisation and publicisation and to their construction, institutionalisation, innovation and diffusion of intervention models, plans and policies. He is also interested in the use of pragmatist philosophy and ethnography in urban and planning research.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: A puzzling observation; Exploring institutionalisation in
civic initiatives; Approaching civic initiatives: conceptual cornerstones
of research; Research methods: exploring two long-standing European civic
initiatives; Book structure; Theorising civic initiatives: direct civic
actions, public problems, and institutions: The limits of seeing civic
initiatives as experimental generators of public effects; Rooting civic
initiatives in action: the experience of public problems and direct civic
action; Civic initiatives and institutions: introducing a dynamic
conceptualisation; Encountering new problematic situations: experience and
innovation; Institutionalising direct civic action in and beyond civic
initiatives: Establishing practices based on friendship and autonomy:
Stanica in ilina, Slovakia; Mixing activism and professionalism: Mains
d'uvres in St-Ouen, France; Instituting practices, public services and
models of direct civic action: Institutionalised civic initiatives and new
problematic situations; The Nová Synagóga project: an experimental
renovation of national heritage; The Espace Imaginaire project: co-managing
an open field of possibilities; Trajectories of experimentation: blocked
innovations and wider transformations; The evolutions of direct civic
action: Approaching problematic situations through direct civic actions;
Civic initiatives and public policy; Direct civic action as a model for
intervention; Conclusion: Understanding the institutionalisation of civic
initiatives; Suggestions for public policies and policy-making; Limits and
future directions for research; Looking back, and looking forward.

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Introduction: A puzzling observation; Exploring institutionalisation in civic initiatives; Approaching civic initiatives: conceptual cornerstones of research; Research methods: exploring two long-standing European civic initiatives; Book structure; Theorising civic initiatives: direct civic actions, public problems, and institutions: The limits of seeing civic initiatives as experimental generators of public effects; Rooting civic initiatives in action: the experience of public problems and direct civic action; Civic initiatives and institutions: introducing a dynamic conceptualisation; Encountering new problematic situations: experience and innovation; Institutionalising direct civic action in and beyond civic initiatives: Establishing practices based on friendship and autonomy: Stanica in Zilina, Slovakia; Mixing activism and professionalism: Mains d'oeuvres in St-Ouen, France; Instituting practices, public services and models of direct civic action: Institutionalised civic initiatives and new problematic situations; The Nová Synagóga project: an experimental renovation of national heritage; The Espace Imaginaire project: co-managing an open field of possibilities; Trajectories of experimentation: blocked innovations and wider transformations; The evolutions of direct civic action: Approaching problematic situations through direct civic actions; Civic initiatives and public policy; Direct civic action as a model for intervention; Conclusion: Understanding the institutionalisation of civic initiatives; Suggestions for public policies and policy-making; Limits and future directions for research; Looking back, and looking forward.