Full Description
The contributions to Urban neo- liberalisation bring together critical analyses of the dynamics and processes neo- liberalism has facilitated in urban contexts. Recent developments, such as intensified economic investment and exposure to aggressive strategies of banks, hedge- funds and investors, and long- term processes of market- and state- led urban restructuration, have produced uneven urban geographies and new forms of exclusion and marginality. These strategies have no less transformed the governance of cities by subordinating urban social life to rationalities and practices of competition within and between cities, and they also heavily impact on city inhabitants' experience of everyday life. Against the backdrop of recent austerity politics and a marketisation of cities, this volume discusses processes of urban neo- liberalisation with regard to democracy and citizenship, inclusion and exclusion, opportunities, and life- chances. It addresses pressing issues of commodification of housing and home, activation of civil society, vulnerability, and the right to the city.
Contents
Introduction: Urban Warfare: Neo-Liberalism's Assault on Democratic Life in the City Part 1: Producing Urban Geographies of Crisis 1. Revisiting Territories of Relegation: Class, Ethnicity and State in the Making of Advanced Marginality 2. State-Making as Space-Making: The Three Modes of the Production of Space in Istanbul 3. The City as a Business Part 2: Governing Cities in Neo-Liberalism 4. Restructuring Melbourne: Uneven Geographies of Success 5. Governing Through Participation: Activation of Civil Commitment in Berlin's Neighbourhoods Part 3: Everyday Experience of Urban Neo-Liberalisation 6. Permanent Liminality? Housing Insecurity and Home 7. Athens in Times of Crisis: Experiences in the Maelstrom of EU Restructuring 8. The Right to the City after Grenfell
