LAURIE N NINA / BONDI L LIZ

Broschiertes Buch

Working the Spaces of Neoliberalism

Activism, Professionalisation and Incorporation

Herausgeber: Laurie, Nina; Bondi, Liz

Beschreibung

Drawing on global research, this book argues that processes of professionalization form an integral part of the production of neoliberal spaces, with profound implications for political activism. It brings together original research from diverse contexts, including studies conducted in the Global South and the Global North, in order to enable key features of neoliberalisation to be understood more fully. The book brings into focus tensions and connections between activism and processes of professionalisation in relation to neoliberalism. It illuminates links between the context of neoliberal restructuring and the ways in which professionalisation involves processes of representation, negotiation and embodiment as activism feeds into "scaled up" policy-making. In doing so, it elaborates how the spaces of neoliberalism are "worked" in two related senses: namely how neoliberalisation incorporates, co-opts, constrains and depletes activism; and how professional subjects inhabit and sometimes subvert the opportunities neoliberalisation opens up.

Autor

Nina Laurie is Senior Lecturer in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at the University of Newcastle, UK. She works collaboratively with colleagues at CESU, San Simón University, Bolivia. Together with Robert Andolina and Sarah Radcliffe she is author of Multi-ethnic Transnationalism: Indigenous Development in the Andes (forthcoming). She is also co-author of Geographies of 'New' Femininities? (1999). Liz Bondi is Professor of Social Geography at the University of Edinburgh. She is founding editor of the journal Gender, Place and Culture, the co-author of Subjectivities, Knowledges and Feminist Geographies (2002) and co-editor of Emotional Geographies (2005).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9781405138000
• ISBN-10: 1405138009
• Artikelnr.: 22192448

Rezensionen

"This is a compelling, timely and thought-provoking collection. Itbrings into contact a range of phenomena often considered inisolation, and subjects them to sustained critical-geographicalexploration. The materials covered here cross worlds and scales -the Global South and the Global North; from the psychotherapist'scouch to ethnodevelopment in Ecuador - and thereby reveal theentangled spaces, roles and subjectivities of professionals andactivists under neoliberalism. It is essential reading for anycritical scholar concerned about the extending and mutating reachof neoliberalism."

Chris Philo, Professor of Geography, University ofGlasgow

"If there is any lingering doubt that geographers need to thinkabout how the local, the state, and the global are interconnected,it should be dispelled in this provocative and compellingcollection, a fresh approach to the everywhere but elusive conceptof neoliberalism. Challenging us to think about the broadramifications for professionalism and local activism, these authorsare determined to make a difference to the real lives of peopleengaged in working the spaces of neoliberalism as they re-writesubjectivity, local knowlege, sexuality, democracy and politicalagency. We can definitely add another notch to our understanding ofthe world."

Audrey Kobayashi, Professor of Geography, Queen's University,Ontario