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Neoliberal urbanism and its contestations : crossing theoretical boundaries
- Title
- Neoliberal urbanism and its contestations : crossing theoretical boundaries / edited by Jenny Künkel, Margit Mayer.
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
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- Description
- xi, 230 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "This volume brings a plurality of approaches - from political economic to Foucauldian - to bear on the broad range of contestations around urban neoliberalism. The contributorsexplore the range of resistant agency and reveal the heterogeneity of intersecting power relations that movements mobilize against"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the contributors -- Part I: Theoretical debates: competing approaches in the study of urban neoliberalism -- Introduction: neoliberal urbanism and its contestations : crossing theoretical boundaries / Margit Mayer and Jenny Künkel -- Towards deep neoliberalization? / Neil Brenner, Jamie Peck, and Nik Theodore -- The limits of neoliberalism: is the concept of neoliberalism helpful in the study of urban policy? / Chris Pickvance -- Grounding social struggles in the age of 'empire' / Ellen Bareis and Manuela Bojadžijev -- Cultural political economy, strategic essentialism, and neoliberalism / Bob Jessop and Ngai-Ling Sum -- Part II: Empirical cases -- Urban development and the creative class in a neoliberal age: two case studies in Toronto / Ute Lehrer -- City improvement districts and 'territorialized neoliberalism' in South Africa (Johannesburg, Cape Town) / Sophie Didier, Marianne Morange, and Elisabeth Peyroux -- Neoliberalization at a crossroads? Transcolonial Hong Kong / Carolyn Cartier -- Reassembling the political life of community: naturalizing neoliberalism in Amman / Christopher Parker and Pascal Debruyne -- Governing the favela / Stephan Lanz -- 'These dolls are an attraction:' othering and normalizing sex work in a neoliberal city / Jenny Künkel -- Conclusion: implications of urban theory for social movements / Margit Mayer and Jenny Künkel -- Index.
- Call Number
- JFD 12-989
- ISBN
- 9780230271838
- 0230271839
- LCCN
- 2011043796
- OCLC
- YBP 2011043796
- Title
- Neoliberal urbanism and its contestations : crossing theoretical boundaries / edited by Jenny Künkel, Margit Mayer.
- Imprint
- Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Künkel, Jenny, 1976-Mayer, Margit.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 12-989