Green Subjection: The Politics of Neoliberal Urban Environmental Management

Brand, Peter

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2427.2007.00748.x

Cited by 116 publications

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“…Equally, we probably need a more profound understanding of how new automobility cultures (including alternatives to automobility) and sub-cultures might be nurtured (Brand, 2007). It seems unlikely that economic distress alone is sufficient to induce a profound and enduring shift in automobility habits or the cultural standing of cars in modern societies (Pooley, 2010); and in any case a resumption of economic prosperity may well stimulate a resumption of the old patterns of automobility culture.…”

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From ‘freedom of the open road’ to ‘cocooning’: Understanding resistance to change in personal private automobility

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Xenias

2015

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

From ‘freedom of the open road’ to ‘cocooning’: Understanding resistance to change in personal private automobility

Wells

Xenias

2015

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

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“…The western neoliberal metropolis, for instance, has undertaken city beautification and gentrification, offered corporate tax benefits and business opportunities, and engaged in place-based marketing, in order to attract a highly skilled "transnational" workforce and private investment in a context of increased competition between global cities [21]. Initiatives to improve urban environmental health have equally been an integral part of this neoliberal program to become globally competitive [22].…”

Section: Urban Neoliberal Governance: Are Small Cities Special?mentioning

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Small Cities, Neoliberal Governance and Sustainable Development in the Global South: A Conceptual Framework and Research Agenda

Véron

2010

Sustainability

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Development and environmental issues of small cities in developing countries have largely been overlooked although these settlements are of global demographic importance and often face a "triple challenge"; that is, they have limited financial and human resources to address growing environmental problems that are related to both development (e.g., pollution) and under-development (e.g., inadequate water supply). Neoliberal policy has arguably aggravated this challenge as public investments in infrastructure generally declined while the focus shifted to the metropolitan "economic growth machines". This paper develops a conceptual framework and agenda for the study of small cities in the global south, their environmental dynamics, governance and politics in the current neoliberal context. While small cities are governed in a neoliberal policy context, they are not central to neoliberalism, and their (environmental) governance therefore seems to differ from that of global cities. Furthermore, "actually existing" neoliberal governance of small cities is shaped by the interplay of regional and local politics and environmental situations. The approach of urban political ecology and the concept of rural-urban linkages are used to consider these socio-ecological processes. The conceptual framework and research agenda are illustrated in the case of India, where the agency of small cities in regard to environmental governance seems to remain limited despite formal political decentralization.

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“…On the other hand, the smart city discourse is used by the city managers and policy makers to support specific development strategies and policies. There are many links between neoliberal urban developments and smart city imaginaries: the construction of a clean, green and intelligent city image is in fact useful to attract investments, leading sector professional workers and tourists (Brand, 2007;Jonas and Whiles, 2007;Hollands, 2008;Kitchin, 2014). As Rob Kitchin, one of the leading smart city researchers put it:…”

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Foucault and the smart city

Wang

2017

The Design Journal

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This paper critically analyses the concept of the 'smart city', focusing on uncovering the formation of a Foucauldian smart city 'discourse'. Smart city developments and policies might be seen to support new ways of imagining, organising and managing the city and its flows. Alternatively, it might be argued that they seek to impress a new moral order on cities by introducing specific technical parameters to distinguish between the 'good' and the 'bad' city. The 'smart city' discourse reflects knowledge/power and may be characterised as a powerful tool for the production of techno-centric rhetoric and narrative where urban and societal problems are rendered docile and amenable subjects to technology solutions. The paper is based on a series of ethnographic interviews with smart city experts and uses a Foucauldian analytical approach to offer a powerful and critical alternative perspective to enrich smart cities future thinking.

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Green Subjection: The Politics of Neoliberal Urban Environmental Management

Cited by 116 publications

References 41 publications

From ‘freedom of the open road’ to ‘cocooning’: Understanding resistance to change in personal private automobility

From ‘freedom of the open road’ to ‘cocooning’: Understanding resistance to change in personal private automobility

Small Cities, Neoliberal Governance and Sustainable Development in the Global South: A Conceptual Framework and Research Agenda

Foucault and the smart city

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