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OverviewThis book provides an invaluable overview of neoliberalising trends in urban policies and governance by presenting novel perspectives on municipal entrepreneurship support policies. It seeks to address a current lack of in-depth empirical knowledge of this topic and the reference literature’s silence on local actors agency. The book ’s scholarly debate around the impact of neoliberal capitalism on cities interweaves with empirical observations in the European cities of Barcelona and Milan with a view to examining what lies behind the “start-up city” label, and the way local actors reproduce, contest and re-signify entrepreneurship policies and practices in a highly individualised context. Based on more than sixty interviews with key policy actors, including young beneficiaries, it sheds light on their representations, motivations, intentions and room for manoeuvre in a way that encompasses local specificities in which multi-scalar economic, social, institutional and cultural processes interact. Finally, this book offers new insights into critical entrepreneurship studies and current debates about convergence and divergence trends in urban policies and governance. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Maria DodaroPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2023 Weight: 0.360kg ISBN: 9783031502118ISBN 10: 3031502116 Pages: 159 Publication Date: 29 December 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents"Forward The book at a glance CHAPTER 1. PUBLIC ACTION IN INCOMPLETE LOCAL SOCIETIES 1.1 Public action in incomplete local societies 1.2 Structure and Agency 1.3 Change and Social Innovation CHAPTER 2. CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE TRENDS IN EUROPEAN CITIES 2.1 Territorialization: the re-emergence of the local 2.2 Trends of convergence and neo-liberalisation patterns 2.3 The neo-Weberian political economy approach 2.4 Crisis and resilience of the ""European city""? 2.5 The many logics of the local CHAPTER 3. START-UP CITY: RADICALISING URBAN ENTREPRENEURIALISM? 3.1 Entrepreneurship in changing economies 3.2 The rise of the enterprise culture in changing policy paradigms 3.3 Entrepreneurial subjectivities and individualisation processes 3.4 Contested entrepreneurship: critical perspectives 3.5 MESPs: pushing the urban entrepreneurialism forward? CHAPTER 4. MESPs BETWEEN CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE: THE CASES OF BARCELONA AND MILAN 4.1 Start-up city: advancing a business-friendly environment 4.2 Inclusivity and local demand for entrepreneurial support 4.3 Ambivalence in inclusivity 4.4 Beyond competitiveness: MESPs and social innovation 4.5 The agency's role: encouraging or dissuading entrepreneurship? CHAPTER 5. YOUNG ""ENTREPRENEURS"" FROM STRUCTURE TO AGENCY 5.1 Differentiated and differentiating entrepreneurship support 5.2 Plurality in young people's strategies 5.3 Self-reliance and volunteerism among youth 5.4 Risk-opportunity structure: implications for youth participants CHAPTER 6. CONCLUSIONS 6.1 Urban governance through entrepreneurialism and agency 6.2 Municipal entrepreneurship policies in times of emergency"ReviewsAuthor InformationMaria Dodaro is a Researcher in Economic and Labour Sociology at the University of Padua and in 2019 graduated with a double PhD in Urban Studies from the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, and Sociology from the University of Barcelona, Spain. Her research interests include the economic and socio-institutional transformations affecting urban policies and governance and local welfare systems, with a focus on the multi-scalar dynamics inherent in such changes, social innovation processes, individualisation, inequalities and social actor agency. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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