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The limits of neoliberalism: is the concept of neoliberalism helpful in the study of urban policy?

Pickvance, Chris (2011) The limits of neoliberalism: is the concept of neoliberalism helpful in the study of urban policy? In: Künkel, Jenny and Mayer, Margit, eds. Neoliberal Urbanism and its Contestations. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-27183-8. (Access to this publication is currently restricted. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:31733)

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Abstract

Neoliberal urbanism has thrown up opportunities as well as constraints for the political and analytical work of those who challenge it. While scholarship has made some advances analyzing the continuing adaptations of the neoliberal regime, different theoretical perspectives have largely remained in unproductive isolation from each other. This volume brings a plurality of approaches – from political economic/regulationist to Foucauldian governmentality and post-operatist subject theories – to bear on the broad range of contestations around urban neoliberalism. With both cutting-edge theoretical accounts and empirical case studies of urban restructuring and conflict in the Global North and South, the contributors make the case that an understanding of micro and macro effects of power is necessary for an effective critique of the heterogeneity of intersecting power relations that movements are mobilizing against – and rarely free from themselves.

Item Type: Book section
Subjects: H Social Sciences
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research
Depositing User: Mita Mondal
Date Deposited: 18 Oct 2012 08:56 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:09 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/31733 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Pickvance, Chris.

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