Abstract:How to do more with less? This is, essentially, austerity's onerous question. Its default answer, in turn, has been to defer, download and outsource the burden of being overtasked and cash strapped. As Peck (2012, p 632) notes, 'austerity is ultimately concerned with offloading costs, displacing responsibility; it is about making others pay the price of fiscal retrenchment' (emphasis in original). These 'others' are, frequently, marginalized communities of colour and the low-income urban neighbourhoods they in… Show more
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