2013/09/24 by Janet Newman · 198 citations
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences · #Austerity #Capitalism #Corporate governance #Economic system #Economics #Governmentality #Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism #Ideology #Law #Neoliberalism (international relations) #Political and Economic history of UK and US #Political economy #Political science #Politics #Sociology #Urban Planning and Governance
paper · doi:10.1177/0042098013505159
published in Urban Studies 51(15), 3290-3305 (SAGE Publishing)
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This paper offers an engagement with theoretical deficits in some uses of neoliberalism as an explanatory concept. It draws on theories of ideology, of governmentality and of assemblage to offer alternative conceptions of the relationship between neoliberalism and its others, and to illuminate the ambiguous and contradictory role of local governments in the UK in processes of neoliberalisation. The paper develops an analysis of local governments as strategic actors in the ‘landscapes of antagonism’ generated by current cycles of economic, political and governance change, and argues for more attention to be paid to the relationship between theory, politics and critique.