Between Realism and Revolt Governing Cities in the Crisis of Neoliberal Globalism.
Leading governance theorist Jonathan S. Davies develops a rich comparative analysis of austerity governance and resistance in eight cities, to establish a conjunctural perspective on the rolling crises of neoliberal globalism.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Bristol University Press,
2021.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Between Realism and Revolt: Governing Cities in the Crisis of Neoliberal Globalism
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- List of Tables
- Contributing Investigators
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- Problematising urban austerity governance
- Eight cities as case studies
- Issues in comparative urban studies
- Data and analysis
- Further methodological considerations
- Structure
- 1 Studying Urban Political (Dis)Orders
- Introduction
- Studying urban political (dis)orders: between pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will?
- The case for strategic pessimism
- The duality of 'power' and 'resistance'
- Sources of socialist agency
- Gramscian regime analysis
- Crises, neoliberalism and austerity
- Crisis, interregnum and conjuncture
- Conjunctural analysis
- Neoliberalism
- Austerity
- Conclusion
- 2 Dynamics of Crisis, Neoliberalisation and Austerity
- Introduction
- Eight cities in and beyond the global economic crisis
- The Eurozone recessions
- Recession beyond the Eurozone
- Australia: the exception
- Radicalising neoliberalism through austerity
- Neoliberalisation without 'austerity'?
- Austerity? Not here!
- Conclusion
- 3 Austerity and State Rescaling
- Introduction
- The financial and juridical squeeze on local government
- Austerity and functional jurisdiction
- Austerity and territorial jurisdiction
- Conclusion
- 4 Consolidating Neoliberal Austerity Regimes
- Introduction
- Athens: an emerging multi-scalar elite pluralist regime1
- Baltimore: a racialised elite pluralist development regime
- Dublin: a revanchist national austerity regime
- Leicester: a nationally mandated austerian realist regime
- Conclusion
- 5 Regime Divergence and the Limits of Austere Neoliberalism
- Introduction
- Montréal: a development regime interregnum?
- Nantes: a corroding sustainable development regime?
- Greater Dandenong: a state-led intercultural revitalisation regime
- Barcelona: a new municipalist challenge to austere neoliberalism
- Conclusion
- 6 Resisting Austerity: Resonant Solidarities and Small Wins
- Introduction
- Strategic internationalism
- The feminisation of urban politics
- Re-constituting rebellious civil society
- New urban activisms: collaborative governance at the grassroots
- Rescaling and redefining the city
- Intersectoral solidarities: students, workers, communities and voluntary groups
- Uploading: policy pressure on upper tiers
- 7 The 'Activity of Ruling Groups': Containment, De-mobilisation and Fragmentation
- Introduction
- Containing and deflecting resistance
- Scalecraft and spatial containment
- The chilling effects of late corporatism
- Community disorganising
- Limits of new municipalism
- Brexit and the new conservative hegemony?
- Conclusion