Redefining Public Value

Nigel's (Learner-Generated Contexts Research Group ) blog post above brings forward quite a few critical thinkings regarding what I'm seeing as our current- blind wave to social capital.

Defining ideas for me include the specific role of managerialism in the redefinition of public- as a perfectly contradictory state, the redefinition of value as a managerial device, that the contemporary managerial turn on social capital fundamentalises it into an overly simplistic line item or hoop, and that public involvement is more than just investment (or social investment by that matter)- it is about social relationships, copresencing, experiential desire and everyday satisfaction.

I'd like to read more about this in a less assertive fashion, especially when it comes to discussing leadership and action ("you've gotta crack some eggs"), or similarly, how Cameron's UK Big Society sits in a global/local complex. I figure that the switch we are feeling uneasy about is that the redefinition of value means ideological barriers of global-local (or other tropes) might too need redefinition lest they are simply old tools. ??

Waleed Aly on the Future of Conservatism in Australia - Politics - Big Ideas - ABC TV

via abc.net.au

This was place of one of the latest little shifts in thinking. I watched this last week and found more meaning to ideological conservatism, which is often the barrier to design or action. Watching the last 20 minutes and Q+A made me realise just how often this barrier crops up when one is trying to create something, do something good, participate in new ways or paradigms of working, or just communicate.
Both sides of politics want to save the world, or have a good society/public domain, one by changing it, experiment and dialogue, the other by holding things back from developing too fast, too haphazard or untested/considered.
Enlightening article despite his very binary-like reasoning.