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Working the Spaces of Neoliberalism
Activism, Professionalisation and Incorporation
Nina Laurie (Edited by), Laurie (Author), Liz Bondi (Edited by)
9781405138000, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 14 December 2005
252 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.372 kg
"This is a compelling, timely and thought-provoking collection. It brings into contact a range of phenomena often considered in isolation, and subjects them to sustained critical-geographical exploration. The materials covered here cross worlds and scales - the Global South and the Global North; from the psychotherapist's couch to ethnodevelopment in Ecuador - and thereby reveal the entangled spaces, roles and subjectivities of professionals and activists under neoliberalism. It is essential reading for any critical scholar concerned about the extending and mutating reach of neoliberalism." Chris Philo, Professor of Geography, University of Glasgow "If there is any lingering doubt that geographers need to think about how the local, the state, and the global are interconnected, it should be dispelled in this provocative and compelling collection, a fresh approach to the everywhere but elusive concept of neoliberalism. Challenging us to think about the broad ramifications for professionalism and local activism, these authors are determined to make a difference to the real lives of people engaged in working the spaces of neoliberalism as they re-write subjectivity, local knowlege, sexuality, democracy and political agency. We can definitely add another notch to our understanding of the world." Audrey Kobayashi, Professor of Geography, Queen's University, Ontario
This collection offers a new way of looking at neoliberalisation and new understandings of contemporary processes of professionalisation.
Introduction 1 After Neoliberalism? Community Activism and Local Partnerships in Aotearoa New Zealand 2 Authority and Expertise: The Professionalisation of International Development and the Ordering of Dissent 3 Dropping Out or Signing Up? The Professionalisation of Youth Travel 4 Ethnodevelopment: Social Movements, Creating Experts and Professionalising Indigenous Knowledge in Ecuador 5 Working the Spaces of Neoliberal Subjectivity: Psychotherapeutic Technologies, Professionalisation and Counselling 6 Desiring Sameness? The Rise of a Neoliberal Politics ofNormalisation 7 Making Space for ‘‘Neo-communitarianism’’? The Third Sector, State and Civil Society in the UK 8 Caught in the Middle: The State, NGOs, and the Limits to Grassroots Organizing Along the US–Mexico Border 9 ‘‘The Experts Taught Us All We Know’’: Professionalisation and Knowledge in Nepalese Community Forestry Commentaries 10 Working the Spaces of Neoliberalism 11 No Way Out? Incorporating and Restructuring the Voluntary Sector within Spaces of Neoliberalism 12 Professional Geographies 13 Partners in Crime? Neoliberalism and the Production of New Political Subjectivities Index 236
Liz Bondi and Nina Laurie 1
Wendy Larner and David Craig 9
Uma Kothari 32
Kate Simpson 54
Nina Laurie, Robert Andolina and Sarah Radcliffe 77
Liz Bondi 104
Diane Richardson 122
Nicholas R Fyfe 143
Rebecca Dolhinow 164
Andrea J Nightingale 186
Marcus Power 209
Katy Jenkins 216
Nicholas Blomley 222
Cindi Katz 227
Subject Areas: Geography [RG]
