Working the Spaces of Neoliberalism: Activism, Professionalisation and Incorporation / Edition 1

by Nina Laurie, Liz Bondi

Overview

This collection offers a new way of looking at neoliberalisation and new understandings of contemporary processes of professionalisation.

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• This collection offers a new way of looking at neoliberalisation.
  
• Presents new understandings of contemporary processes of professionalisation.
  
• Draws on new, original research.
  
• Features studies from the Global North and the Global South.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781405138000
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	02/10/2006
Series:	Antipode Book Series , #51
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

Nina Laurie is Senior Lecturer in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at the University of Newcastle, UK. She works collaboratively with colleagues at CESU, San Simón University, Bolivia. Together with Robert Andolina and Sarah Radcliffe she is author of Multi-ethnic Transnationalism: Indigenous Development in the Andes (forthcoming). She is also co-author of Geographies of ‘New’ Femininities? (1999).

Liz Bondi is Professor of Social Geography at the University of Edinburgh. She is founding editor of the journal Gender, Place and Culture, the co-author of Subjectivities, Knowledges and Feminist Geographies (2002) and co-editor of Emotional Geographies (2005).

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Liz Bondi and Nina Laurie 1

1 After Neoliberalism? Community Activism and Local Partnerships in Aotearoa New Zealand
Wendy Larner and David Craig 9

2 Authority and Expertise: The Professionalisation of International Development and the Ordering of Dissent
Uma Kothari 32

3 Dropping Out or Signing Up? The Professionalisation of Youth Travel
Kate Simpson 54

4 Ethnodevelopment: Social Movements, Creating Experts and Professionalising Indigenous Knowledge in Ecuador
Nina Laurie, Robert Andolina and Sarah Radcliffe 77

5 Working the Spaces of Neoliberal Subjectivity: Psychotherapeutic Technologies, Professionalisation and Counselling
Liz Bondi 104

6 Desiring Sameness? The Rise of a Neoliberal Politics ofNormalisation
Diane Richardson 122

7 Making Space for ‘‘Neo-communitarianism’’? The Third Sector, State and Civil Society in the UK
Nicholas R Fyfe 143

8 Caught in the Middle: The State, NGOs, and the Limits to Grassroots Organizing Along the US–Mexico Border
Rebecca Dolhinow 164

9 ‘‘The Experts Taught Us All We Know’’: Professionalisation and Knowledge in Nepalese Community Forestry
Andrea J Nightingale 186

Commentaries

10 Working the Spaces of Neoliberalism
Marcus Power 209

11 No Way Out? Incorporating and Restructuring the Voluntary Sector within Spaces of Neoliberalism
Katy Jenkins 216

12 Professional Geographies
Nicholas Blomley 222

13 Partners in Crime? Neoliberalism and the Production of New Political Subjectivities
Cindi Katz 227

Index 236

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"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

Editorial Reviews

"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

From the Publisher