Neoliberalization: States, Networks, Peoples

ISBN-13: 9781405134323 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 352 str.

Kim England; Kevin Ward

Opis

The book is an analysis of cultural, social as well as political economic expressions of neoliberalization and argues for an appreciation of the relational geographies of neoliberalization.

• In-depth empirical research spanning a variety of world regions
• A range of topics including homelessness, comparative politics, economic development and social policy
• Reviews how neoliberalism is enacted as a way to highlight the complexity and contingency of this economic model
• Engages in debates within anthropology, gender studies, geography, health studies, international studies, planning, political science and sociology

Recenzje

Neoliberalism is a word that can easily come to mean everything and so nothing. And yet the process and relations of neoliberalization are far more significant than either of these meanings. By focusing on places in which neoliberalization is shaped and experienced, and on critical analyses of the processes and relations of which it is constituted, this book reveals its profound importance.
Roger Lee, Queen Mary, University of London

This excellent collection of essays brings substance to processes of neoliberalization and their impacts in different parts of the globe, from Argentina to Canada, Nepal to China, and New Zealand to Japan. It illuminates, from diverse intellectual and disciplinary traditions, the complexity and contingency of neoliberalisms through a detailed analysis of economic and political institutions, people, places, and networks involved in their (re)production and dissemination. This needs to be understood if we are to gain a better theorized account of concrete historical realities and gain leverage for alternative political directions.
Helga Leitner, University of Minnesota

Spis treści

List of Figures.

List of Plates.

List of Tables.

List of Contributors.

Preface.

1. Introduction: Reading Neoliberalizations (Kevin Ward and Kim England).

Part I: "Mainstream" Economic Development and its Alternatives.

Introduction to Part I.

2. Competing Capitalisms and Neoliberalism: the Dynamics of, and Limits to, Economic Reform in the Asia–Pacific (Mark Beeson).

3. Neoliberalizing the Grassroots? Microfinance and the Politics of Development in Nepal (Katherine N. Rankin and Yogendra B. Shakya).

Part II: Within and between State and Markets: the Role of Intermediaries.

Introduction to Part II.

4. Learning to Compete: Communities of Investment Promotion Practice in the Spread of Global Neoliberalism (Nicholas A. Phelps, Marcus Power, and Roseline Wanjiru).

5. Temporary Staffing, "Geographies of Circulation," and the Business of Delivering Neoliberalization (Kevin Ward).

6. Neoliberalizing Argentina? (Pete North).

Part III: States and Subjectivities.

Introduction to Part III.

7. Neoliberalizing Home Care: Managed Competition and Restructuring Home Care in Ontario (Kim England, Joan Eakin, Denise Gastaldo, and Patricia McKeever).

8. Spatializing Neoliberalism: Articulations, Recapitulations, and (a Very Few) Alternatives (Catherine Kingfisher).

9. Co–constituting "After Neo–liberalism": Political Projects and Globalizing Governmentalities in Aotearoa, New Zealand (Wendy Larner, Richard Le Heron, and Nicholas Lewis).

10. Conclusion: Reflections on Neoliberalizations (Kim England and Kevin Ward).

Bibliography.

Index.

O autorze

Kim England is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Washington.

Kevin Ward is Reader in Geography in the School of Environment and Development at the University of Manchester.

Blurb

Neoliberalization: States, Networks, Peoples uncovers the complexities and contingencies of neoliberalization. The book is an analysis of cultural and social as well as political economic expressions of neoliberalization. The collection shows that neoliberalism is not an inevitable monolithic force, but is socially produced in particular places.

The book documents empirically some of the complementary differences in how neoliberalization unfolds in different parts of the world. The empirical focus moves away from the ideological heartlands of neoliberalism in the US and the UK. The book presents a range of topics, from the politics of microfinance in Nepal to struggles over the restructuring of the Canadian welfare state, from the role of foreign investment promotion officials in East Africa and East Asia to the New Zealand experience of ′After Neoliberalism′. By exploring neoliberalism in various settings across the globe, the book excavates the variegated and relational geographies of neoliberalization.