Neoliberalism, Big Society, and Progressive Localism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4846572 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Williams (0000-0001-8724-0856, Department of Geography, University of Exeter, Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter, EX4 4RJ, England), Marjorie Goodwin (0000-0001-6181-6853, University of Exeter), Mark Goodwin (0000-0002-1476-0591, Department of Geography, University of Exeter, Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter, EX4 4RJ, England), Paul Cloke (0000-0003-2679-1915, Department of Geography, University of Exeter, Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter, EX4 4RJ, England) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 12 |
| Pages | 2798-2815 |
| Publication date | 2014-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/a130119p |
| OpenAlex | W2148840214 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 87 |
| References cited | 62 |
In the UK the current Coalition government has introduced an unprecedented set of reforms to welfare, public services, and local governance under the rubric of 'localism'. Conventional analytics of neoliberalism have commonly portrayed the impacts of these changes in the architectures of governance in blanket terms: as an utterly regressive dilution of local democracy; as an extension of conservative political technology by which state welfare is denuded in favour of market-led individualism; and as a further politicised subjectification of the charitable self. Such seemingly hegemonic grammars of critique can ignore or underestimate the progressive possibilities for creating new ethical and political spaces in amongst the neoliberal canvas. In this paper we investigate the localism agenda using alternative interpretative grammars that are more open to the recognition of interstitial politics of resistance and experimentation that are springing up within, across, and beyond formations of the neoliberal. We analyse the broad framework of intentional localisms laid down by the Coalition government, and then point to four significant pathways by which more progressive articulations of localism have been emerging in amongst the neoliberal infrastructure. In so doing we seek to endorse and expand imaginations of political activism that accentuate an interstitial political sensibility that works strategically, and even subversively, with the tools at hand
Big government · Governmentality · Localism · Neoliberalism (international relations) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration
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| Unique citing works | 87 |
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| Citations per year | 7,91 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 85 |