Alison Stenning, Adrian Smith, Alena Rochovská, &

Domesticating Neo-Liberalism

Spaces of Economic Practice and Social Reproduction in Post-Socialist Cities

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Produktbeschreibung

Based on in-depth research in Poland and Slovakia, "Domesticating Neo-Liberalism" addresses how we understand the processes of neo-liberalization in post-socialist cities.Builds upon a vast amount of new research dataExamines how households try to sustain their livelihoods at particularly dramatic and difficult times of urban transformationProvides a major contribution to how we theorize the geographies of neo-liberalismOffers a conclusion which informs discussions of social policy within European Union enlargement

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Turner Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 150mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781405169905
• ISBN-10: 1405169907
• Artikelnr.: 29955453

Autorenporträt

Adrian Smith is Professor of Human Geography and Head ofDepartment at Queen Mary, University of London. He works on theeconomic and social geographies of transformation from statesocialism in East-Central Europe, with a particular focus onindustrial and regional change and on community and householdeconomies. This research has involved a number of externally-fundedresearch projects including ESRC, Nuffield, and US National ScienceFoundation.

Alison Stenning is Reader in the School of Geography,Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University. She has worked onthe economic and social geographies of post-socialism for more than15 years, focusing particularly on issues of work, class, genderand community. She has published two edited books and more than 40book chapters and articles in this field, based on research fundedby, amongst others, the ESRC and the Nuffield Foundation.

Alena Rochovská is a Lecturer at Comenius Universityin Bratislava. Previously she worked as a Research Fellow at QueenMary, University of London on the ESRC-funded project on'Social Exclusion, Spaces of Household Economic Practice andPost-Socialism'. She has published widely on the feminisationof poverty, feminist geography, and the geographies of socialinequality in Slovakia.

Dariusz Swiatek is a researcher at theInstitute of Geography and Spatial Organisation of the PolishAcademy of Sciences in Warsaw. He previously worked as a ResearchFellow at the University of Newcastle on the ESRC-funded project on'Social Exclusion, Spaces of Household Economic Practice andPost-Socialism'. Swiatek has published widely on unemploymentproblems, housing market changes and the development of suburbanareas in Poland.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Plates, Figures and Tables.

Series Editor's Preface.

Preface and Acknowledgements.

1. Domesticating Neo-Liberalism and the Spaces ofPost-Socialism.

2. Neo-Liberalism and Post-Socialist Transformations.

3. Domesticating Economies: Diverse Economic Practices,Households and Social Reproduction.

4. Work: Employment, Unemployment and the Negotiation of LabourMarkets.

5. Housing: Markets, Assets and Social Reproduction.

6. Land and Food: Production, Consumption and Leisure.

7. Care: Family, Social Networks and the State.

8. Conclusion.

Bibliography.

Appendix 1: Summary Information on Interviewed Households.

Appendix 2: Semi-Structured Interviews with Key Informants.

Index.

Rezensionen

"Thanks to its nuanced and multi-layered take on thegeographical dimensions of employment, home, land and foodprovision in late capitalism, this monograph will become essentialreading for scholars in the domains of post-socialist area studies,geography, economics, anthropology and sociology, in addition tosocial, urban and economic development policypractitioners." (Royal Geographical Society,2012)

"This book makes a valuable contribution to the theorization ofneoliberalization by extending it to the realm of the everydayhousehold economy. It is grounded in rich empirical research inworking class neighbourhoods in Bratislava and Krakow and arguesthat households mitigate and tolerate the pernicious social costsof neoliberal reform to achieve social reproduction." (YahooFinance, 2 November 2010)

'This richly comparative analysis of the neo-liberalizationof everyday life in East Central Europe also sheds new light on theeveryday lives of neo-liberalism. A marvellous book, it reveals howdaily practices of coping, caring and consuming, productions andreproduction, have been bound into processes of "markettransition", proliferating alternative economies even in thisno-alternative age.'
--Jamie Peck, University of British Columbia

'This book makes a valuable contribution to thetheorization of neo-liberalization by extending it to the realm ofthe everyday household economy. It is grounded in rich empiricalresearch in working class neighbourhoods in Bratislava andKraków and argues that households mitigate and tolerate thepernicious social costs of neo-liberal reform to achieve socialreproduction.'
--Adam Swain, University of Nottingham