Between democratic network governance and neoliberalism: A regime-theoretical analysis of collaboration in Barcelona

Blanco, Ismael

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2014.10.007

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“…They are interpreted, without exception in our sample, as the only viable way forward for cities, regardless of other political commitments. However, our most significant finding was that with the exception of Eurovegas in Madrid, anti-austerity activists did not exercise leverage over local economic development policy through either participatory governance or resistance (Blanco, 2015). Such influence was generally confined to the 'social policy' arena.…”

Section: Austerity Neoliberalisation and Governabilitymentioning

confidence: 85%

Austerity urbanism: Patterns of neo-liberalisation and resistance in six cities of Spain and the UK

2017

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This paper explores neoliberalisation and its counter-currents through a six-case study of austerity urbanism in Spain and the UK. Applying Urban Regime Theory it highlights the role of urban politics in driving, variegating and containing neoliberalism since the 2008 crash. Variegated austerity regimes contribute to strengthening neoliberalism, but with limits. Welfarism survives austerity in felicitous circumstances. And, where contentious politics thrive, as in Spain, it holds out the potential for a broader challenge to neoliberalism. In contrast, austerity regimes in the UK cities are strongly embedded. The legacies of past struggles, and differing local and regional traditions form an important part of the explanation for patterns of neoliberalisation, hybridization and contestation.

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Section: Austerity Neoliberalisation and Governabilitymentioning

confidence: 85%

Austerity urbanism: Patterns of neo-liberalisation and resistance in six cities of Spain and the UK

2017

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“…However, empirically based work shows an uneven geography of the capacities, durability, and inclusivity of GNs (O'Toole and Meier 2004 ;Davies 2007 ;Loopmans 2012 ;Blanco 2015 ). When GNs fail or encroach upon powerful political or economic interests, the state can reassert itself (Peters 2011 ;Larsson 2013 ).…”

Section: Governance Network and Good Governancementioning

confidence: 94%

Governance Networks: Conceptualization, Genealogy, and Research Frontiers

Dijk

2015

Geographies of Urban Governance

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The benefi ts of governance networks in the fi eld of urban governance are too often presumed rather than theoretically and empirically demonstrated. This chapter addresses this issue through a thorough conceptualization of networks. This is followed by a genealogy of the emergence and acceptance of networks in the domains of governance via their connections to various projects or trends within the cultural political economy. Lastly, research frontiers that position governance networks and their capacity to promote inclusive and sustainable cities as phenomena in need of explanation and critique are discussed.

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“…These constitute discourses describing a move from bureaucratic structures within firms and formal relationships between them, to organic or informal social relations. This shift is often motivated by the requirements on adaptability and resilience imposed by the rapid changes resulting from current crises of large-scale social-ecological systems (Gunderson and Light, 2006), but has also been linked to a broader shift toward neoliberal modes of urban governance (Joseph, 2013;Chandler, 2014;Blanco, 2015). The discourse of digital platforms as enabling self-organization can thus be seen as part of a broader shift toward complex and decentralized governance.…”

Section: Digital Platforms and Dreams Of Self-organizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Complex Control and the Governmentality of Digital Platforms

Törnberg

Uitermark

2020

Front. Sustain. Cities

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Digital platforms are reshaping cities in the twenty-first century, providing not only new ways of seeing and navigating the world, but also new ways of organizing the economy, our cities and social lives. They bring great promises, claiming to facilitate a new "sharing" economy, outside of the exploitation of the market and the inefficiencies of the state. This paper reflects on this promise, and its associated notion of "self-organization," by situating digital platforms in a longer history of control, discipline and surveillance. Using Foucault, Deleuze, and Bauman, we scrutinize the theoretical and political notion of "self-organization" and unpack its idealistic connotations: To what extent does self-organization actually imply empowerment or freedom? Who is the "self" in "selforganization," and who is the user on urban digital platforms? Is self-organization necessarily an expression of the interests of the constituent participants? In this way, the paper broadens the analysis of neoliberal governmentalities to reveal the forms of power concealed under the narratives of "sharing" and "self-organization" of the platform era. We find that control is increasingly moving to lower-level strata, operating by setting the context and conditions for self-organization. Thus, the order of things emerge seemingly naturally from the rules of the game. This points to an emerging form of complex control, which has gone beyond the fast and flexible forms of digital control theorized by Deleuze.

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Between democratic network governance and neoliberalism: A regime-theoretical analysis of collaboration in Barcelona

Cited by 64 publications

References 44 publications

Austerity urbanism: Patterns of neo-liberalisation and resistance in six cities of Spain and the UK

Austerity urbanism: Patterns of neo-liberalisation and resistance in six cities of Spain and the UK

Governance Networks: Conceptualization, Genealogy, and Research Frontiers

Complex Control and the Governmentality of Digital Platforms

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