2014 report

Previous neglect of the consequences of mining
decline was followed by the inception of the Coalfields Task Force in 1997.

overlapping of policy interventions.

This created a complex topography of regeneration
actors at intersecting scales: the national, regional and local level.

Funding for the
economic and social development of the coalfield (based on the Sheffield Hallam
definition of Coalfield wards; ODPM, 2003a) was secured from central government
through the Single Regeneration Budget (SRB) between 1997 and 2006 and the National
Coalfields Programme (1999–2010).

The case study: constructing a mining
community

It is worth describing

Here it is necessary to disentangle

National Coalfields
Programme

national funding for regeneration

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the Single Regeneration Budget

New Deal for Communities
programmes

a mining community, the reason why it’s
unique

It’s all interlinked in a network

the stakeholders

former
local councillors

trade union official

mining community

local regeneration agencies

local authorities, RDA, voluntary
sector professionals

problem populations

authorising and naturalising origin stories

endlessly reiterated mythic trauma

death of communities

金瓜石地方觀光產業發展的可能

he idealization of the strike
experience

this is a continued attack on the values of
the mining community里民之間意見分歧

‘[t]hey don’t know what they’re talking about,
they got no idea of the values of community.

local officials repeatedly

outside of capitalism

a cultural characteristic of
place (

the striking community, the forgotten community or the stubborn
and uncooperative community

the striking community, the forgotten community or the stubborn
and uncooperative community

a fundamental tension

a site of values in the pursuit of (economic) value

‘active communities’

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isssues

coalfield regeneration
processes

the relations between state, quasi-state and civil society institutions

questions of activation, empowerment, responsibilization and abandonment

stages of atricle

1.the communities’
understanding of

cultural memory.

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community identity.

the diversity meanings of communities

migrant community, the striking community, the forgotten community or the stubborn
and uncooperative community

representativeness

The assumption of one community linked to each site, therefore, proved
misplaced.

the active inclusion of a wide range of individuals going beyond assumptions of
socio-spatial homogeneity.

里長不能代表大家意見

想像中的歷史情結