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Dardot, Pierre; Laval, Christian

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“…This overstates the extent to which democracy has been an abiding concern of neoliberalism at a theoretical or academic level or indeed in practice. The extent to which neoliberal logics promote elite forms of government – removed from more participatory forms of ‘popular sovereignty’ – specifically in order to maintain the primacy of capital over labour has been frequently noted (Dardot and Laval, 2013: 72; Davies, 2015: 138; MacLean, 2017).…”

Section: The Politics Of Relational Expertisementioning

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“…As Whiteside argues, ‘Austerity, over the neoliberal period, has been less a reaction to crises or deficits than it has been a governance strategy spatially displacing risk and reward, costs and benefits’. One of the abiding features of neoliberalism, and subsequently austerity, has been the reification of competition at all level of social relations, whether it is, at the individual level, the production of the entrepreneurial self (Dardot and Laval, 2013; Davies, 2015; Seymour, 2013), the articulation of antagonistic (or nativist) ‘in group’ versus ‘out group’ relations (Bruff, 2014; Davies, 2016) or the pitting states against each other in a race to the bottom in terms of taxes, standards, regulations and labour conditions (Bohle, 2009).…”

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Relational expertise and the spatial (re)production of austerity: Challenges and opportunities for progressive politics

Standring

2019

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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What is the role of expertise in reproducing austerity and how might this be challenged by the left? The implementation of austerity policies, the widespread public backlash to these policies and the role that expertise has played in their implementation have contributed to highlighting many of the pathologies of neoliberalism, particularly widening geographical and intergenerational divisions. This article adopts the sociological approach to expertise developed by Harry Collins and colleagues in the ‘Studies of Expertise and Experience’ field. Here expertise is understood as relational in the sense that expertise is not recognized by the extent to which it can be said to be right but rather experts are recognized by their own social group. It argues that this relational approach to expertise is explicitly political in nature, involving inclusions and exclusions based on pre-existing power relations and can be further extended to incorporate the relational nature in which various forms of expertise or knowledge are accepted as being authoritative by the broader public. Using examples from the UK, Portugal and Spain, principally in the area of housing and urban politics, this article explores how expertise under neoliberalism can be understood spatially. Local expertise under austerity is focused on either minimizing social harms which may arise – food banks, housing shelters, community social care – or else is directed towards competing for external investment, promoting policies of regeneration and gentrification for the benefit of foreign capital rather than existing populations. A progressive, relational and political expertise should, however, not merely point to the failures of the current system but shape events. The recent growth in social movements has made some progress in challenging austerity, in practice and discourse, and points towards a more joined-up thinking in which knowledge production is clearly and unambiguously linked to action.

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Relational expertise and the spatial (re)production of austerity: Challenges and opportunities for progressive politics

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2019

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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“…Alexander assumes too much unity among the scholarly and political associates of the ordo school (Vanberg, 1998: 172). There were at least two significant groupings, one of lawyers and economists based in Freiburg and another influenced by sociology and so emphasizing ‘social’ questions based in Colgone and elsewhere (Dardot and Laval, 2014: 78; Streit and Wohlgemuth, 2000: 225). Nor did these groupings remain static over time.…”

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“…If neo-liberal governmentality poses an internal and permanent check on national political action, the phenomenon Foucault described in his biopolitics lectures has now gone transnational (Dardot and Laval, 2014: 302). Cerny attributes the global success of governmentality to the ‘expansion of the hegemony of practices learned from the domestic sphere’ – like state-supervised competition (Cerny, 2009) – but which is not embodied in ‘institutions as such’ (Cerny, 2008: 224–225).…”

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Constitutional Property Rights and Elision of the Transnational

Schneiderman

2014

Social & Legal Studies

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Neo-liberal thought has for some time been shaping policy outcomes in many parts of the world. According to the neo-liberal frame, the economy functions as an internal limit on government. Scholars of comparative constitutional law mostly are disinterested in seeking out evidence, both inside and outside of states, of neo-liberal values being channelled by constitutionally relevant actors and institutions. Recent work in comparative property rights, purporting to be attentive to culture and context, is taken up by way of example. Turning subsequently to Foucault’s lectures on biopolitics, neo-liberal thought is understood as productive of new forms of legality, like international investment law, and of new subjectivities, such as one that conjoins liberal rights with economic interests. Comparative property theorists, by contrast, rely on forms of juridical right disassociated from the global economic context, oddly failing to account for a critical part of contemporary debates over global property rights.

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Territorial Ecology and Socio‐ecological Transition

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