ISBN:
9781529210934
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (272 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Davies, Jonathan Between realism and revolt
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Kommunalpolitik
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Stadt
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Gesellschaft
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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?.
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