Traveling Theory: Embracing Post-Neoliberalism through Southern Cities

The New Blackwell Companion to the City

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 521-531

  Robinson, Jenny ^a   Parnell, Sue ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

"urban neoliberalism " attracting theoretical attention, in different parts of the world; Aihwa Ong's Deleuzian engagements with Asian contexts, idea of neoliberalism; Developmentalism, fellow traveler of neoliberal policy ambition or innovation in poorer city contexts; Discontinuous geography of neoliberalization social and governmental processes, not connected to neoliberalization; Foucauldian and Deleuzian, decomposing "neoliberalism," into its constituent technologies; High profile urban writers, insights specific experiences of poorer cities; Routes of theorizing urban neoliberalism; Shift in primary locus of the urban changing, our ways of thinking and writing about cities; Traveling theory, embracing post neoliberalism through southern cities; Urban theory globally, and locally generated

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861053051     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444395105.ch46     Document Type: Chapter

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