21 February 2012, 4 pm
Seminar Room 1, School of Geographical Sciences
“Class, Citizenship and Regeneration: Glasgow and the Commonwealth Games 2014”
Through a focus on 'consumer-citizenship' this paper seeks to highlight the class practices inherent in urban regeneration. Using Glasgow's 2014 Commonwealth Games (CWGs) as an illustrative example, it seeks to underline the market-led processes that underpin state interventions to transform 'problem people, and problem places' (Damer 1989) into sites of 'active' consumption and 'responsible' citizenship. In doing so, we synthesise conceptual insights from the Marxist-influenced gentrification literature and the Foucauldian-inspired housing renewal literature. We forward this to initiate further academic debate and empirical enquiry on the specific issue of mega sporting events 2014 CWGs.