Marketisation, public services and the city: the potential for Polanyian counter movements

Warner, Mildred E.; Clifton, Judith

doi:10.1093/cjres/rst028

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“…However, as this case study demonstrates, the actual manifestation and trajectories of such processes occurs through 'deficit politics' in sub-national governance spaces. Yet while 'deficit politics' provides an important categorisation it requires greater conceptual and empirical investigation in governing spaces where it is 'actually existing', as is also the case with Warner and Clifton (2013) and Donald et al's (2013) insufficient consideration of actual political practices.…”

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“…Such a perspective can, for instance, inform Warner and Clifton's (2013) perspective on how marketisation of public services is spread through the utilisation of market values that provide semantic security between the aims of civic duty and community well-being, and market forms of delivery. This is not to suggest that such semantic security is endemic throughout austerity Integral to this is pragmatist sociology's belief that actors continually possess the competencies and opportunities in which to critique and justify alternatives in reference to moral values and principles.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Deliberative practices are thus critical to future analysis of austerity in urban governance. For example, this approach can examine the antecedents and genesis of Polanyian 'counter movements' ('push-backs') in the Warner and Clifton's (2013) framework, largely by way of elucidating how critique develops based on the pragmatics of the everyday and utilisation of alternative societal values in 'tests'. Such considerations also presents a pragmatist conceptual framework that can further elucidate the political action and democratic politics as actors seek to state their 'equality' in Rancierian understandings of resistance and contestation (see Davidson and Iveson, 2014).…”

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City government in an age of austerity: Discursive institutions and critique

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2016

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Austerity is an increasingly important feature of urban society and in western countries, both as a site interwoven with the crisis tendencies of capitalism and as spaces mitigating austerity programmes instigated by nation states. Cities have therefore become key spaces in the mediation of 'austerity urbanism', but where such processes involve deliberation, making the production of consensus highly problematic. Such tendencies require far greater intellectual sensitivity towards the practices of agents as they seek to enact social control and coordination, as well as subordinate resistance and critique. 'Pragmatist Sociology' is utilised in this paper to examine the construction and deployment of discursive institutions seeking to control the behaviour of actors, including reducing critique, with the intention of legitimising austerity programmes. Such discursive institutions establish semantic links between the discursive aims of those seeking to control, and the pragmatics of the everyday lives of those subject to such institutions. The paper seeks to examine, through a case study of an English city, how key decision-makers construct discursive institutions in the implementation of austerity and subordination of resistance and, second, the actual practices of resisting austerity. In conclusion, the paper finds that austerity governance is characterised by discursive austerity institutions based on market and bureaucratic values, where large scale critique has been marginalised, resulting in minor forms of critique in the everyday, and compounded by constant efforts at the reconfirmation of discursive institutions.

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City government in an age of austerity: Discursive institutions and critique

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2016

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“…They are grassroots, counter-establishment movements (Warner and Clifton 2013 ) whose aim is to create bottom-up social networks to provide help for themselves and for others.…”

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“…Many observers have identifi ed a return of the pendulum , a municipality comeback or a renaissance of municipal enterprises. As a result, there has been a growing international interest in the 'remunicipalisation' of local public services Warner and Clifton 2014 ). Germany is often seen as a typical example of these processes.…”

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confidence: 99%