By Alison Stenning, Adrian Smith, Alena Rochovská, Dariusz Świątek
ISBN-10: 1405169907
ISBN-13: 9781405169905
ISBN-10: 1405169915
ISBN-13: 9781405169912
According to in-depth examine in Poland and Slovakia, Domesticating Neo-Liberalism addresses how we comprehend the approaches of neo-liberalization in post-socialist towns.
- Builds upon an unlimited volume of latest learn data
- Examines how families attempt to maintain their livelihoods at fairly dramatic and hard instances of city transformation
- Provides a massive contribution to how we theorize the geographies of neo-liberalism
- Offers a end which informs discussions of social coverage inside eu Union enlargement
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This is what McCarthy (2006) has called the individualizing ‘ontology of neo-liberalism’, which rests on both political and moral economies and on the production of neo-liberal subjects and citizens (K. Mitchell, 2006; Ong, 2006) who are ‘entrepreneurial, self-responsible individuals’ (Larner, 2003: 511; see also du Gay, 1996). In the particular post-socialist context, the promotion of neo-liberal subjectivities relies on a rejection of the caricatured citizen of state socialism, who was happy to depend on the state for work, consumption, leisure and health care, and who finds the challenges of the market debilitating (Weiner, 2005; NEO-LIBERALISM AND POST-SOCIALISM 35 Junghans, 2001).
All that remained of opposition to radical and rapid marketization within Solidarity were a few marginalized voices, such as that of Tadeusz Kowalik, and of the strong social protectionism of Jacek Kuron´, who was, importantly, to become Solidarity’s first Minister for Labour and Social Policy. Kuron´ described himself as the anaesthetist of shock therapy (Kowalik, 2001; see also Belka, 2001) since his warnings of the social – and thus political – cost of the Balcerowicz Plan meant that social transfers stood at a much higher level during this period than Balcerowicz and Sachs might have wished.
Understanding the complexity of forms of household practices and social reproduction in Petržalka and Nowa Huta required the deployment of a multi-method approach, which involved five main elements: analysis of available data on poverty and social exclusion; a questionnaire survey of 350 households undertaken across the Nowa Huta and Petržalka SPACES OF POST-SOCIALISM 29 neighbourhoods; semi-structured, in-depth, follow-up interviews with 64 households in the neighbourhoods (Appendix 1); multi-sited ethnographies of a range of household and community economic practices and sites across Petržalka and Nowa Huta; and semi-structured interviews with close to 90 key informants in relevant institutions (Appendix 2).
Domesticating Neo-Liberalism: Spaces of Economic Practice and Social Reproduction in Post-Socialist Cities (RGS-IBG Book Series) by Alison Stenning, Adrian Smith, Alena Rochovská, Dariusz Świątek
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