Introduction – Neoliberalism and urban space in Latin America and the Caribbean

Jaffe, Rivke; Aguiar, José Carlos G.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9493.2012.00455.x

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“…In his view, the state is responding to the crisis by reasserting its own regulatory role rather than returning to fully fledged Keynesianism (Rossi, : 1072). Together, these most recent works emphasize the concept of cities as laboratories for actual neoliberal policies (Jaffe and Aguiar, ; Peck et al ., ; Rossi, ), the transnational flow of ideas and professional exchanges that underpin neoliberalization (Healey, ) and the geographical, policy‐related and cultural obstacles to the diffusion of neoliberal ideas (Hayter and Barnes, ). In the FSU and CEE, Hirt et al .…”

Section: Slovak Neoliberalism: Domestic Policies With a Transnationalmentioning

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Mutating Neoliberalism: The Promotion of Italian Investors in Slovakia before and after the Global Financial Crisis

Sellar

Pástor

2015

Int J Urban Regional Res

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In the context of the literature on 'actually existing neoliberalisms', this article analyzes the policies and services supporting Italian foreign direct investment (FDI) in Slovakia. It identifies a group of organizations, both Slovak and Italian, which shape and deliver neoliberal pro-FDI policies. By studying such an 'investment promotion community' (IPC) before and after the global financial crisis of 2009, and during Italy's prolonged crisis, this article shows both the persistence and adaptability of neoliberal policies and institutions. In so doing, it highlights some of the transnational flows underpinning the 'domestication' of neoliberalism in Slovakia. These findings support recent literature arguing that post-crisis neoliberalism can be interpreted as a stunted Polanyian double movement, in which the state has improved some of its regulatory functions but without questioning the overarching neoliberal principles. Specifically, it shows that FDI policies and the support of Italian investors rest upon a professional community that has not changed much since the 2009 crisis. This community played a crucial role in embedding neoliberal rationalities in Slovakia and supports the persistence of this ideology in the post-crisis environment.

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Section: Slovak Neoliberalism: Domestic Policies With a Transnationalmentioning

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Mutating Neoliberalism: The Promotion of Italian Investors in Slovakia before and after the Global Financial Crisis

Sellar

Pástor

2015

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…As I have shown, it was due to this indeterminacy that the students were allowed to counter the vision of youth as drunken criminals in the first place. Thus, as Jaffe and Aguiar () have recently pointed out, drawing on Harvey (), cities are spaces not only of conflict but also of hope, where minorities may find resources for emancipation and mobilization. As a space of hope, El Alto makes possible the imagination of the otherwise (Povinelli, ), and in this sense, acts such as the clausura offer a glimpse into a different El Alto, one yet to be.…”

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Closing down bars in the inner city centre: Informal urban planning, civil insecurity and subjectivity in Bolivia

Risør

2016

Singap J Trop Geogr

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The paper presents an ethnographic analysis of a group of secondary school students' protests against (illegal) bars in the city centre of El Alto, Bolivia. It shows how informal and formal practices are entangled through the state's dependence on the (illegal) actions of the citizenry in order to ensure civil security. The paper suggests that urban intervention is coproduced by state and nonstate actors at the margins of the state and that urban transformation entails subject formation, in this case that of political youth. Following Hansen and Verkaaik's (2009) argument that the city is essentially multilayered and unknowable, I argue that urban life, as well as state‐citizen relations, is indeterminate, and that it is due to this indeterminacy that the students succeeded in transforming a common association between Alteño youth, alcohol consumption and potential criminal conduct into an alternative notion of youth as responsible citizens of the New Bolivia. This conceptualization permits us to understand the urban sphere as a space not only of conflict but also of endurance and hope, and hence as a zone that allows for the imaginative production of the otherwise (Povinelli, 2011).

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Conclusion: Exigencies Produced by the Lefebvrian Notion of ‘Right to the City’

Liu

2015

Spatial Mobility of Migrant Workers in Beijing, China

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Introduction – Neoliberalism and urban space in Latin America and the Caribbean

Cited by 5 publications

References 17 publications

Mutating Neoliberalism: The Promotion of Italian Investors in Slovakia before and after the Global Financial Crisis

Mutating Neoliberalism: The Promotion of Italian Investors in Slovakia before and after the Global Financial Crisis

Closing down bars in the inner city centre: Informal urban planning, civil insecurity and subjectivity in Bolivia

Conclusion: Exigencies Produced by the Lefebvrian Notion of ‘Right to the City’

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