Working the Spaces of Neoliberalism: Activism, Professionalisation and Incorporation

Drawing on global research, this book argues that processes of professionalization form an integral part of the production of neoliberal spaces, with profound implications for political activism. It brings together original research from diverse contexts, including studies conducted in the Global South and the Global North, in order to enable key features of neoliberalisation to be understood more fully.
The book brings into focus tensions and connections between activism and processes of professionalisation in relation to neoliberalism. It illuminates links between the context of neoliberal restructuring and the ways in which professionalisation involves processes of representation, negotiation and embodiment as activism feeds into “scaled up” policy–making. In doing so, it elaborates how the spaces of neoliberalism are “worked” in two related senses: namely how neoliberalisation incorporates, co–opts, constrains and depletes activism; and how professional subjects inhabit and sometimes subvert the opportunities neoliberalisation opens up.

Spis treści:
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.

Nota biograficzna:
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).

Okładka tylna:
Drawing on global research, this book argues that processes of professionalization form an integral part of the production of neoliberal spaces, with profound implications for political activism. It brings together original research from diverse contexts, including studies conducted in the Global South and the Global North, in order to enable key features of neoliberalisation to be understood more fully.
The book brings into focus tensions and connections between activism and processes of professionalisation in relation to neoliberalism. It illu minates links between the context of neoliberal restructuring and the ways in which professionalisation involves processes of representation, negotiation and embodiment as activism feeds into “scaled up” policy–making. In doing so, it elaborates how the spaces of neoliberalism are “worked” in two related senses: namely how neoliberalisation incorporates, co–opts, constrains and depletes activism; and how professional subjects inhabit and sometimes subvert the opportunities neoliberalisation opens up.