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200 10$aContesting Neoliberalism$b[electronic resource] $eUrban Frontiers
210   $aNew York $cGuilford Publications$d2006
215   $a1 online resource (361 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a1-59385-321-1 
327   $aCONTENTS; 1 Contesting Urban Futures: Decentering Neoliberalism; 2 Conceptualizing Neoliberalism, Thinking Thatcherism; 3 Mexico's Neoliberal Transition: Authoritarian Shadows in an Era of Neoliberalism; 4 The Places, People, and Politics of Partnership: After Neoliberalism in Aotearoa New Zealand; 5 Contesting the Neoliberalization of Urban Governance; 6 Contesting the Neoliberal City? Theories of Neoliberalism and Urban Strategies of Contention; 7 Political Polemics and Local Practices of Community Organizing and Neoliberal Politics in South Africa
327   $a8 Decommodifying Electricity in Postapartheid Johannesburg9 Spaces of Resistance in Seattle and Cancu?n; 10 Articulating Neoliberalism: Diverse Economies and Everyday Life in Postsocialist Cities; 11 Modes of Governance, Modes of Resistance: Contesting Neoliberalism in Calgary; 12 Closed Borders, Open Markets: Immigrant Day Laborers' Struggle for Economic Rights; 13 Space Patrols - the New Peace-Keeping Functions on Nonprofits: Contesting Neoliberalization of the Urban Poor?; 14 From Possible Urban Worlds to the Contested Metropolis: Urban Research and Activism in the Age of Neoliberalism
327   $a15 Squaring Up to NeoliberalismAbout the Editors; Index; Contributors
330   $aNeoliberalism's ""market revolution""--realized through practices like privatization, deregulation, fiscal devolution, and workfare programs--has had a transformative effect on contemporary cities. The consequences of market-oriented politics for urban life have been widely studied, but less attention has been given to how grassroots groups, nongovernmental organizations, and progressive city administrations are fighting back. In case studies written from a variety of theoretical and political perspectives, this book examines how struggles around such issues as affordable housing, public
606   $aAnti-globalization movement
606   $aNeoliberalism
606   $aUrban economics
606   $aUrban geography
606   $aUrban policy
608   $aElectronic books.
615  4$aAnti-globalization movement.
615  4$aNeoliberalism.
615  4$aUrban economics.
615  4$aUrban geography.
615  4$aUrban policy.
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701   $aPeck$b Jamie$0144282
701   $aSheppard$b Eric$0960056
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906   $aBOOK
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