Working the Spaces of Neoliberalism

Copyright © 2005 Editorial Board of Antipode

Working the Spaces of Neoliberalism

Editor(s): Nina Laurie, Liz Bondi

Published Online: 13 APR 2012 04:37AM EST

Print ISBN: 9781405138000

Online ISBN: 9781444397437

DOI: 10.1002/9781444397437

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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.

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–vi)

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      Introduction (pages 1–8)

      Liz Bondi and Nina Laurie

    1. Chapter 1

      After Neoliberalism? Community Activism and Local Partnerships in Aotearoa New Zealand (pages 9–31)

      Wendy Larner and David Craig

    1. Chapter 2

      Authority and Expertise: The Professionalisation of International Development and the Ordering of Dissent (pages 32–53)

      Uma Kothari

    1. Chapter 3

      Dropping out or Signing up? The Professionalisation of Youth Travel (pages 54–76)

      Kate Simpson

    1. Chapter 4

      Ethnodevelopment: Social Movements, Creating Experts and Professionalising Indigenous Knowledge in Ecuador (pages 77–103)

      Nina Laurie, Robert Andolina and Sarah Radcliffe

    1. Chapter 5

      Working the Spaces of Neoliberal Subjectivity: Psychotherapeutic Technologies, Professionalisation and Counselling (pages 104–121)

      Liz Bondi

    1. Chapter 6

      Desiring Sameness? The Rise of a Neoliberal Politics of Normalisation (pages 122–142)

      Diane Richardson

    1. Chapter 7

      Making Space for “Neo-communitarianism”? The Third Sector, State and Civil Society in the UK (pages 143–163)

      Nicholas R Fyfe

    1. Chapter 8

      Caught in the Middle: The State, NGOs, and the Limits to Grassroots Organizing Along the US–Mexico Border (pages 164–185)

      Rebecca Dolhinow

    1. Chapter 9

      “The Experts Taught Us All We Know”: Professionalisation and Knowledge in Nepalese Community Forestry (pages 186–208)

      Andrea J Nightingale

  12. Commentaries

    1. Chapter 10

      Working the Spaces of Neoliberalism (pages 209–215)

      Marcus Power

    2. Chapter 11

      No way out? Incorporating and Restructuring the Voluntary Sector within Spaces of Neoliberalism (pages 216–221)

      Katy Jenkins

    3. Chapter 12

      Professional Geographies (pages 222–226)

      Nicholas Blomley

    4. Chapter 13

      Partners in Crime? Neoliberalism and the Production of New Political Subjectivities (pages 227–235)

      Cindi Katz

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      Index (pages 236–243)

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