Neoliberal Urbanism and its Contestations

ELLEN BAREIS Professor at the Department for Welfare and Public Health at the University of Applied Sciences Ludwigshafen/Rhein, Germany MANUELA BOJADZIJEV Assistant Professor at the Institute for European Ethnography at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany NEIL BRENNER Professor of Sociology and Metropolitan Studies at New York University, USA CAROLYN CARTIER Professor of Geography at China Studies in the China Research Centre at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia PASCAL DEBRUYNE PhD Candidate at the Department of Third World Studies at Ghent University, Belgium SOPHIE DIDIER Geographer and Research Director of the Institut Francais d'Afrique du Sud (IFAS), France BOB JESSOP Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University, UK and Co-Director of the Cultural Political Economy Research Centre, UK STEPHAN LANZ Lecturer in Social Geography and Cultural Studies at Europa-Universitat Viadrina at Frankfurt/Oder, Germany UTE LEHRER Associate Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Studies and member of the CITY Institute, York University, Canada MARIANNE MORANGE Senior Lecturer in the Geography Department, University Paris 7 - Denis Diderot, France CHRISTOPHER PARKER Professor of Political and Social Science at Ghent University, Belgium JAMIE PECK Canada Research Chair in Urban and Regional Political Economy, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Canada ELISABETH PEYROUX Senior Researcher at National Centre for Scientific Research, based at the University of Toulouse 2 (Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Studies, LISST-Cieu), France CHRIS PICKVANCE Professor of Urban Studies at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK NGAI-LING SUM Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Lancaster University and Co-Director of the Cultural Political Economy Research Centre, UK NIK THEODORE Director of the Center for Urban Economic Development and Associate Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

This volume brings a plurality of approaches from political economic to Foucauldian to bear on the broad range of contestations around urban neoliberalism. The contributors explore the range of resistant agency and reveal the heterogeneity of intersecting power relations that movements mobilize against.This volume brings a plurality of approaches from political economic to Foucauldian to bear on the broad range of contestations around urban neoliberalism. The contributors explore the range of resistant agency and reveal the heterogeneity of intersecting power relations that movements mobilize against.