Working the Spaces of Neoliberalism : Activism, Professionalisation and Incorporation

by Laurie, Nina; Bondi, Liz

• ISBN13: 9781444397437
• ISBN10: 1444397435
• Edition: 1st
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2012-04-16
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

Introduction: Liz Bondi and Nina Laurie.

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

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

Dropping Out or Signing Up? The Professionalisation of Youth Travel: Kate Simpson.

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

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

Desiring Sameness? The Rise of a Neoliberal Politics of Normalisation: Diane Richardson.

Making Space for "Neocommunitarianism"? The Third Sector, State and Civil Society in the UK: Nicholas R Fyfe.

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

"The Experts Taught Us All We Know": Professionalisation and Knowledge in Nepalese Community Forestry: Andrea J Nightingale.

Working the Spaces of Neoliberalism: Marcus Power.

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

Professional Geographies: Nicholas Blomley.

Partners in Crime? Neoliberalism and the Production of New Political Subjectivities: Cindi Katz..

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Index.