Services urbains et néolibéralisme. Approches théoriques et enjeux de développement

Baron, Christian; Peyroux, Élisabeth

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“…This tendency of relying on additional partners outside of state institutions is not unique to the Philippines, and has been documented in the case of other urban services (Baud et al, 2004;Sansom, 2006;Baruah, 2007). It is in line with the neoliberal framework, which promotes a reorganisation of civil society and the mobilisation of local communities in order to go along with market mechanisms (Jessop, 2002;Baron and Peyroux, 2011). In the present case study, it points to a downscaling of electricity issues, similar to what Jaglin and Verdeil (2013) have termed an "urbanisation" of the energy question.…”

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“…While the urban poor 3 living in low-income and often untitled areas constitute a significant proportion of Metro Manila's inhabitantsit is estimated that one in ten inhabitants lives in an informal settlement in the National Capital Region (NCR) (Porio, 2002(Porio, , 2012)they were overlooked by a legislation that hardly took notice of their situation. Such lack of attention has been observed before in a number of studies focusing on the outcome of neoliberal reforms for the urban poor (Baron and Peyroux, 2011). Soon after the implementation of these new schemes, the social dimension of service provision was rediscovered as public authorities had to face the social tensions produced by inadequate access to utilities, as well as the risk of tampering, theft and disconnections destabilising the network.…”

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The Philippine electricity sector reform and the urban question: How metro Manila's utility is tackling urban poverty

Mouton

2015

Energy Policy

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HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L'archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d'enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. The Philippine electricity sector reform and the urban question Morgan MoutonTo cite this version:Morgan Mouton. The Philippine electricity sector reform and the urban question: How metro Manila's utility is tackling urban poverty. Energy Policy, Elsevier, 2015, Urban energy governance: local actions, capacities and politics, 78, pp.The electricity reform did not take the urban poor into consideration. The state retreated from issues of electrification. Decentralisation favoured the emergence of new, local actors for this aspect of energy policy. The distribution utility is left with an increased power over issues of access to electricity. Territorially and qualitatively, electrification programs are more diverse. a b s t r a c tIn the early 2000s, the Philippine government reformed its electricity sector following neoliberal principles: unbundling of the power industry, privatisation of assets and commodification of electricity. This paper shows that the reform was primarily driven by the need to secure electricity supply and cut down tariffs. These national objectives ousted other issues, and notably those that find their expression at the urban level, among which the question of access to electricity in Metro Manila's urban poor communities. The central state withdrew its attention from the issue of electrification, and local actors had to react as they were confronted to social tensions and practices of pilferage. As a consequence, city governments and local administrations are getting involved in this issue, which opens the way to participation of civil society. This paper shows how the "rolling back" of the central state led to new partnerships and arrangements between the distribution utility, local governments and community organisations. This movement points to an urbanisation of energy issues, which could bring positive results for end-users provided that it is accompanied by a clearer regulatory framework.1 The well-known World Bank (1993) paper The World Bank's role in the electric power sector: policies for effective institutional, regulatory, and financial reform received a lot of attention from Philippine policymakers. Beyond their mere influence, these two institutions had a more direct involvement in the reform with two loans that set precise requirements: a 1984 WB loan of USD 300 million required the adoption of laws on privatisation (that came to be Presidential Decrees 2029 and 2030), and a 1998 ADB loan (supported by the WB and the IMF) of another USD 300 mill...

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The Philippine electricity sector reform and the urban question: How metro Manila's utility is tackling urban poverty

Mouton

2015

Energy Policy

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“…instead he is critical of them only when they are overpowering, capricious, or challenging to the sovereignty of reason. 10 Baron, for example, argues that Kant's negative remarks about emotions are actually critiques of sentimentality, which occurs when we are passive toward our emotions and allow ourselves to be carried away by them (1995: 196). The cultivation view answers the second challenge by arguing that emotions do not provide the basis for moral action.…”

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A Good Enough Heart: Kant and the Cultivation of Emotions

Thomason

2017

Kantian rev.

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One way of understanding Kant’s views about moral emotions is the cultivation view. On this view, emotions play a role in Kantian morality provided they are properly cultivated. I evince a sceptical position about the cultivation view. First, I show that the textual evidence in support of cultivation is ambiguous. I then provide an account of emotions in Kant’s theory that explains both his positive and negative views about them. Emotions capture our attention such that they both disrupt the mind’s composure and serve as a surrogate for reason. As such, Kant cannot recommend that we cultivate our emotions.

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“…A number of studies have focused on governance arrangements within and around BIDs (Morçöl and Zimmermann, 2006;Wolf, 2006) 2 and located them within current debates on state restructuring and the neoliberalization of urban policies in Northern and Southern countries (Ward, 2005(Ward, , 2006Miraftab, 2007;Dubresson, 2008;Didier et al, 2009Didier et al, , 2011Baron and Peyroux, 2011). Among these studies, particular attention has been paid to governance arrangements regarding security and policing (Berg, 2004;Eick, 2007;Morange and Didier, 2008).…”

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Business Improvement Districts (BIDs): the internationalization and contextualization of a ‘travelling concept’

Peyroux

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Glasze

2012

European Urban and Regional Studies

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In many countries across the world, Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) are seen as a new model of sub-municipal governance to secure private capital for improving the attractiveness of a city’s central spaces. Originating from North America (Canada and the United States), this model of self-taxing districts, often based on public–private partnerships, has spread to other continents, including Europe, Australia and Africa. This theme issue explores the internationalization and the contextualization of the BID model in both Northern countries (the United States, Canada, Germany and Sweden) and Southern countries (South Africa). The collection of articles focuses on key debates surrounding BIDs and presents different theoretical perspectives as well as lines of argument in relation to these debates. Relying on approaches based on political economy and local governance regimes, Foucault-inspired sociology of governance and governmentality studies or critical discourse analysis, the authors discuss the nature and significance of BIDs in relation to state restructuring and the neoliberalization of urban policies and to emergent rationalities and practices of security governance and policing arrangements. Using the recent discussions of policy transfer and ‘urban policy mobilities’, they look at the international circulation of the BID model and its local embeddedness, exploring the role of the global circuits of knowledge and the ways in which the model has been adopted and reshaped in different cities. Drawing a complex and differentiated picture of BIDs across continents and cities, this collection of articles emphasizes both the need for more comparative research across diverse urban experiences and contexts and the relevance of a relational perspective in urban studies that blurs the traditional lines of separation between studies of Northern and Southern cities.

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Services urbains et néolibéralisme. Approches théoriques et enjeux de développement

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Cited by 11 publications

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The Philippine electricity sector reform and the urban question: How metro Manila's utility is tackling urban poverty

The Philippine electricity sector reform and the urban question: How metro Manila's utility is tackling urban poverty

A Good Enough Heart: Kant and the Cultivation of Emotions

Business Improvement Districts (BIDs): the internationalization and contextualization of a ‘travelling concept’

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