Excavating the Logic of British Urban Policy: Neoliberalism as the "Crisis of Crisis-Management"

Spaces of Neoliberalism: Urban Restructuring in North America and Western Europe

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 126-147

  Jones, Martin ^a   Ward, Kevin ^b  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

"economic crisis" and "rationality crisis"; British urban policy, neoliberalism as crisis of crisis management; Crisis of state rationality becoming legitimation crisis; Crisis theoretic approaches to state theory; Crisis theories, for regulatory logic of British neoliberal policy; Habermas, and the logic of crisis development; Neo Marxist theory of crisis; Rereading British urban policy, the ongoing restructuring; Rescaling, as the crisis of crisis management; Urban spaces of neoliberalism, a four crisis theoretic proposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885568678     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444397499.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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