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OverviewNeoliberalism'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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Helga Leitner , Jamie Peck, PhD , Eric Sheppard , Anant MaringantiPublisher: Guilford Publications Imprint: Guilford Publications Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.600kg ISBN: 9781593853211ISBN 10: 1593853211 Pages: 340 Publication Date: 16 November 2006 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Out of stock  Table of Contents1. Contesting Urban Futures: Decentering Neoliberalism, Helga Leitner, Eric S. Sheppard, Kristin Sziarto, and Ananthakrishna Maringanti 2. Conceptualizing Neoliberalism, Thinking Thatcherism, Jamie Peck and Adam Tickell 3. Mexico's Neoliberal Transition: Authoritarian Shadows in an Era of Neoliberalism, Patricia M. 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. SheppardReviews'If you believe the city is a key arena for the making, contestation, and unmaking of neoliberal politics, and if you want to know about how cities are shaped and reshaped by neoliberalism and its discontents, seek no longer. This volume brings together leading scholar-activists to uncompromisingly dissect the realities of neoliberal urbanization and what can be done about it. This is an indispensable contribution for the critical scholar, urban activist, or anyone who is looking for ways to contest neoliberalism's pensee unique and to fight against its injustices and inequalities.' - Erik Swyngedouw, Department of Geography, Oxford University 'A major contribution to the critical study of early 21st-century capitalism. Focusing on the role of cities as strategic arenas for neoliberal political projects, the contributors consistently and systematically underscore the profoundly contested character of contemporary urban restructuring. Drawing on a rich trove of case studies from cities around the world, the book explores the variegated strategies through which local actors and organizations have resisted market-based forms of urban governance and their deeply regressive, polarizing consequences for everyday life. This wide-ranging, accessible book contains a unique combination of cutting-edge theorizing, fine-grained empirical analyses, and incisive political critique. It will be essential reading for anyone who seeks to decipher or influence contemporary urban struggles.' - Neil Brenner, New York University, USA Author InformationHelga Leitner is Professor of Geography and a faculty member in the Institute for Global Studies and the Interdisciplinary Center for Global Change at the University of Minnesota. She has published two books and has written numerous articles and book chapters on the political economy of urban development, urban entrepreneurialism, the politics of immigration and citizenship, and environmental justice. Her current research interests include immigration and race in the contemporary United States, processes of neoliberalization, and the rise of social justice movements. Jamie Peck is Professor of Geography and Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The author of Work-Place: The Social Regulation of Labor Markets and Workfare States, and coeditor of Remakingthe Global Economy and Reading Economic Geography, he is currently researching the political economy of neoliberalization and the restructuring of low-wage labor markets. Eric Sheppard is Professor of Geography and member of the Interdisciplinary Center for Global Change at the University of Minnesota. He is coauthor of The CapitalistSpace Economy and A World of Difference: Society, Nature, Development, and coeditor of A Companion to Economic Geography and Scale and GeographicInquiry. His current research examines contestations of neoliberalism and the geographical dynamics of trade and neoliberal globalization. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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