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Contesting neoliberalism : urban frontiers

Title
Contesting neoliberalism : urban frontiers / edited by Helga Leitner, Jamie Peck, Eric S. Sheppard.
Publication
New York : Guilford Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Leitner, Helga.
  • Peck, Jamie.
  • Sheppard, Eric S.
Description
xii, 340 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Urban policy
  • Anti-globalization movement
  • Neoliberalism
  • Urban economics
  • Urban geography
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Contesting urban futures : decentering neoliberalism / Helga Leitner, Eric S. Sheppard, Kristin Sziarto and Anant Maringanti -- 2. Conceptualizing neoliberalism, thinking Thatcherism / Jamie Peck and Adam Tickell -- 3. Mexico's neoliberal transition : authoritarian shadows in an era of neoliberalism / Patricia Martin -- 4. The places, people, and politics of partnership : after neoliberalism in Aotearoa New Zealand / Wendy Larner and Maria Butler -- 5. Contesting the neoliberalization of urban governance / Margit Mayer -- 6. Contesting the neoliberal city? : theories of neoliberalism and urban strategies of contention / William Sites -- 7. Political polemics and local practices of community organizing and neoliberal politics in South Africa / Sophie Oldfield and Kristian Stokke -- 8. Decommodifying electricity in postapartheid Johannesburg / Patrick Bond and Peter McInnes -- 9. Spaces of resistance in Seattle and Cancun / Joel Wainwright -- 10. Articulating neoliberalism : diverse economies and everyday life in postsocialist cities / Adrian Smith -- 11. Modes of governance, modes of resistance : contesting neoliberalism in Calgary / Byron Miller -- 12. Closed borders, open markets : immigrant day laborers' struggle for economic rights / Nik Theodore -- 13. Space patrols - the new peace-keeping functions of nonprofits : contesting neoliberalism or the urban poor? / Volker Eick -- 14. From possible urban worlds to the contested metropolis : urban research and activism in the age of neoliberalism / Ute Lehrer and Roger Keil -- 15. Squaring up to neoliberalism / Helga Leitner, Jamie Peck and Eric S. Sheppard.
ISBN
  • 1593853211 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 1593853203 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2006024795
  • 9781593853211
  • 9781593853204
OCLC
  • OCM70803454
  • SCSB-5288256
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries