Imagining Regulation Differently

Co-creating for Engagement

Morag McDermont, Tim Cole, Janet Newman, Angela Piccini

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781447348016
• eBook ISBN: 9781447348047
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Civics & Citizenship
• Index: Politics & International Relations

There is an urgent need to rethink relationships between systems of government and those who are 'governed'. This book explores ways of rethinking those relationships by bringing communities normally excluded from decision-making to centre stage to experiment with new methods of regulating for engagement.

Using original, co-produced research, it innovatively shows how we can better use a 'bottom-up' approach to design regulatory regimes that recognise the capabilities of communities at the margins and powerfully support the knowledge, passions and creativity of citizens. The authors provide essential guidance for all those working on co-produced research to make impactful change.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of figures, tables and boxes
• List of abbreviations and acronyms
• Notes on contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Series editors’ foreword
• 1. Introduction: From the regulation of engagement to regulating for engagement
• 2. Co-production as experimentation: the research forum as method
• 3. Beyond Prevent: Muslim engagement in city governance
• 4. Regulating for ‘care-ful’ knowledge production: researching older people, isolation and loneliness
• 5. Who gets to decide what’s in my fridge? Principles for transforming the ‘invisible rules’ shaping the regulation of food habits in urban spaces
• 6. Life Chances: thinking with art to generate new understandings of low-income situations
• 7. The Making, Mapping and Mobilising in Merthyr project: young people, research and arts activisms in a post-industrial place
• 8. Regulating engagement through dissent
• 9. The role of community anchor organisations in regulating for engagement in a devolved government setting
• 10. Conclusion: Towards an organic model of regulating for engagement
• Postscript: Engaging the university?
• References