Contesting Neoliberalism: Urban FrontiersHelga Leitner, Jamie Peck, Eric Sheppard Neoliberalism's "market revolution"--realized through practices like privatization, deregulation, fiscal devolution, and workfare programs--has had a transformative effect on contemporary cities. The consequences of market-oriented politics for urban life have been widely studied, but less attention has been given to how grassroots groups, nongovernmental organizations, and progressive city administrations are fighting back. In case studies written from a variety of theoretical and political perspectives, this book examines how struggles around such issues as affordable housing, public services and space, neighborhood sustainability, living wages, workers' rights, fair trade, and democratic governance are reshaping urban political geographies in North America and around the world. |
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... institutions and to examine the issues that have emerged for them as they have engaged in co- alition building , program development , and institutional design . We do not underestimate the challenges and dilemmas these actors face ...
... institutions and to examine the issues that have emerged for them as they have engaged in co- alition building , program development , and institutional design . We do not underestimate the challenges and dilemmas these actors face ...
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... institutions to a much more purposeful and fully developed set of regulative institutions . The result is a diffuse , technocratic , and multiscaled rule - regime , one which , while " neither monolithic in form nor universal in effect ...
... institutions to a much more purposeful and fully developed set of regulative institutions . The result is a diffuse , technocratic , and multiscaled rule - regime , one which , while " neither monolithic in form nor universal in effect ...
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... institutions , and economy . Neoliberalism's market - fundamentalist ethos is at once conservative and radical . It ... institutions and structural forces , they often suffer from two problems : ( 1 ) Rationalities that may be common ...
... institutions , and economy . Neoliberalism's market - fundamentalist ethos is at once conservative and radical . It ... institutions and structural forces , they often suffer from two problems : ( 1 ) Rationalities that may be common ...
Contents
Decentering Neoliberalism | 1 |
Conceptualizing Neoliberalism Thinking Thatcherism | 26 |
Authoritarian Shadows | 51 |
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