Between realism and revolt : governing cities in the crisis of neoliberal globalism /
Jonathan S. Davies.
Bok Engelsk 2021
| Omfang | 1 online resource (xi, 257 pages) : : digital, PDF file(s).
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| Utgave | 1st ed.
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| Opplysninger | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2022).. - 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. - Leicester: a nationally mandated austerian realist regime -- Conclusion -- 5 Regime Divergence and the Limits of Austere Neoliberalism -- Introduction -- Montreal: 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. - 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. - 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. - 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.. - Specialized.
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| ISBN | 1-5292-1091-7. - 1-5292-1094-1. - 1-5292-1095-X
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