Contesting neoliberalism : urban frontiers / edited by Helga Leitner, Jamie Peck, Eric S. Sheppard. - xii, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contesting urban futures : decentering neoliberalism / Conceptualizing neoliberalism, thinking Thatcherism / Mexico's neoliberal transition : authoritarian shadows in an era of neoliberalism / The places, people, and politics of partnership : after neoliberalism in Aotearoa New Zealand / Contesting the neoliberalization of urban governance / Contesting the neoliberal city? : theories of neoliberalism and urban strategies of contention / Political polemics and local practices of community organizing and neoliberal politics in South Africa / Decommodifying electricity in postapartheid Johannesburg / Spaces of resistance in Seattle and Cancun / Articulating neoliberalism : diverse economies and everyday life in postsocialist cities / Modes of governance, modes of resistance : contesting neoliberalism in Calgary / Closed borders, open markets : immigrant day laborers' struggle for economic rights / Space patrols - the new peace-keeping functions of nonprofits : contesting neoliberalism or the urban poor? / From possible urban worlds to the contested metropolis : urban research and activism in the age of neoliberalism / Squaring up to neoliberalism / Helga Leitner, Eric S. Sheppard, Kristin Sziarto and Anant Maringanti -- Jamie Peck and Adam Tickell -- Patricia Martin -- Wendy Larner and Maria Butler -- Margit Mayer -- William Sites -- Sophie Oldfield and Kristian Stokke -- Patrick Bond and Peter McInnes -- Joel Wainwright -- Adrian Smith -- Byron Miller -- Nik Theodore -- Volker Eick -- Ute Lehrer and Roger Keil -- Helga Leitner, Jamie Peck and Eric S. Sheppard. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

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Urban policy
Anti-globalization movement
Neoliberalism
Urban economics
Urban geography

HT153 / .C65 2007

307.76