Quo vadis neoliberalism? The remaking of global capitalist governance after the Washington Consensus

Sheppard, Eric; Leitner, Helga

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2009.09.009

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“…Notes 1. Although the distinction between these phases and forms of neoliberalism is made in the context of the north Atlantic zone, they are evident in other parts of the world as neoliberal global capitalist governance gained hegemony over the third world (Sangameswaran, 2009;Sheppard & Leitner, 2010). 2.…”

Section: Unauthorised Constructionmentioning

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Compliance with the building byelaws and earthquake safety in urban areas of Bihar: progress, constraints and challenges

Jones

Vasvani

2017

Environmental Hazards

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Citation: Jones, Samantha and Vasvani, Vishal (2017) Compliance with the building byelaws and earthquake safety in urban areas of Bihar: progress, constraints and challenges. Environmental Hazards, 16 (4 Northumbria University has developed Northumbria Research Link (NRL) to enable users to access the University's research output. Copyright © and moral rights for items on NRL are retained by the individual author(s) and/or other copyright owners. Single copies of full items can be reproduced, displayed or performed, and given to third parties in any format or medium for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge, provided the authors, title and full bibliographic details are given, as well as a hyperlink and/or URL to the original metadata page. The content must not be changed in any way. Full items must not be sold commercially in any format or medium without formal permission of the copyright holder. The full policy is available online: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/policies.html This document may differ from the final, published version of the research and has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies. To read and/or cite from the published version of the research, please visit the publisher's website (a subscription may be required.)Compliance with the building byelaws and earthquake safety in urban areas of Bihar: progress, constraints and challenges The adoption and enforcement of building codes is considered the most effective tool in safeguarding lives and property against earthquakes. There would appear to be a vital regulatory role for government in the enforcement of building codes, but this is somewhat at odds with the neoliberal agenda of 'rolling back the state'. This paper explores constraints to the implementation of building codes in the context of changing roles and responsibilities of local authorities in Bihar in India. In-depth interviews were conducted with key stakeholders across major urban centres in north Bihar. Some factors, such as: code complexity; competition between the public and private sectors for qualified personnel; and low public risk perception were found to be less significant in Bihar than has been noted elsewhere, while other factors such as: the cost of earthquake-resistant measures; political interests; corrupt practices; and lack of government capacity were important. Additional factors were also revealed by the research, some of which are exacerbated by the neoliberal climate of urban governance. While the recent 2014 byelaws represent an improvement in the system and a degree of re-regulation, ambiguities create opportunities for failures arising from 'normalised irresponsibility'.ARTICLE HISTORY

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Compliance with the building byelaws and earthquake safety in urban areas of Bihar: progress, constraints and challenges

Jones

Vasvani

2017

Environmental Hazards

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“…While interurban knowledge sharing has a long history (Harris and Moore, 2013), policy mobilities scholarship notes an increasingly prominent fusion o f knowledge sharing and policy networking as assemblages o f designs, experts, expertise, materials, and tech nologies evolve in transit as part o f the policy sharing process (McCann and Ward, 2011). Contemporary urban policy making is said to reflect broader variegations in neoliberal political economies (Sheppard and Leitner, 2010), as mobile policies mutate as they are emulated and tailored through local experimentation (McCann, 2010). As with more localized forms of entrepreneurial urban management, this networking is both aggressively marketed to municipal governments by consultants and local elites (Peck and Theodore, 2010;Prince, 2012), and leveraged by those governments for place promotion via extrospective 'policy boosterism' (McCann, 2013).…”

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Competition through Interurban Policy Making: Bidding to Host Megaevents as Entrepreneurial Networking

Lauermann

2014

Environ Plan A

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Recent scholarship on policy mobility, globally active municipal governments, and transnational city-to-city policy making suggest a new dynamic in entrepreneurial cities: entrepreneurialism based not only on place competition, but also based on practices of interurban networking. This paper argues that cross-city initiatives to share planning expertise can function both as policy-making networks and as markets for policy knowledge, as urban governance stakeholders strategically leverage intercity initiatives for sharing urban planning knowledge. Bidding to host sporting 'megaevents' highlights these networked entrepreneurial strategies. A comparative study of bids to host the Olympic Games over a twenty-year period shows that policy-making knowledge (templates, models, and best practices) shared between cities is both necessary for competing to host events, and represents 'policy commodities' that planning coalitions can use as part of their entrepreneurial portfolios. While much commentary on interurban policy making focuses on how policy practices are received by cities or mobilized by international businesses or policy makers, this paper signals to a multidirectional entrepreneurial strategy: although megaevents federations and sponsors developed megaevents knowledge networks to leverage urban planning for profit, many local development coalitions have incorporated these same networks into their competitive strategies.

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“…Within this context, their privately funded activities were frequently development-focused (McFarlane, 2006;Glassman, 2010;Sheppard and Leitner, 2010), seeking to solve problems 'over there' (Bell, 2000; see also, Oldfield et al, 2004;Lunn, 2009;Palmer, 2010). Although it is important to be mindful of the size of these donations in relation to both the total assets of the university and the scale of the 'problems' they purported to 'solve', their genealogy can be traced back to the work of the large Northern philanthropic foundations, such as the Carnegie Corporation and the Rockefeller Foundation (Bell, 2000(Bell, , 2002Lambert and Lester, 2004).…”

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Knowledge nodes and international networks of connection: representations of private philanthropy by elite higher education institutions

Warren¹,

Bell²

2013

Social & Cultural Geography

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Quo vadis neoliberalism? The remaking of global capitalist governance after the Washington Consensus

Cited by 139 publications

References 19 publications

Compliance with the building byelaws and earthquake safety in urban areas of Bihar: progress, constraints and challenges

Compliance with the building byelaws and earthquake safety in urban areas of Bihar: progress, constraints and challenges

Competition through Interurban Policy Making: Bidding to Host Megaevents as Entrepreneurial Networking

Knowledge nodes and international networks of connection: representations of private philanthropy by elite higher education institutions

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