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Community Volunteering as Neoliberal Strategy? Green Space Production in Berlin
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In this paper, the authors examine how far the outsourcing of former local state responsibilities for public services and urban infrastructure is expressed in the promotion of community gardening in Berlin (Germany) and show the contradictory outcomes: on the one hand, a failing strategy of outsourcing towards residents and the opening up of opportunity structures for other interests.Abstract:
The task for critical urban research is to analyze processes of neoliberalization "on the ground". This paper examines—based on original empirical research—in how far the outsourcing of former local state responsibilities for public services and urban infrastructure is expressed in the promotion of community gardening in Berlin (Germany). It shows the contradictory outcomes: on the one hand, a failing strategy of outsourcing towards residents and the opening up of opportunity structures for other interests. On the other hand it shows how far the emergence of open green spaces maintained by volunteers can only be understood against the background of "roll-back" neoliberal urban politics and that their rationality cannot be separated from "roll-out neoliberalism".read more
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Radical, reformist, and garden-variety neoliberal: coming to terms with urban agriculture's contradictions
TL;DR: The authors argued that urban agriculture arises from a protective counter-movement, while at the same time entrenching the neoliberal organization of contemporary urban political economies through its entanglement with multiple processes of neoliberalization.
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Building Food Democracy: Exploring Civic Food Networks and Newly Emerging Forms of Food Citizenship
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore possible new analytical frameworks for the study of contemporary dynamics in food networks and develop the concept of "civic food networks" as an overarching concept to explore contemporary dynamics and sources of innovation within agrifood networks.
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Austerity urbanism and the makeshift city
TL;DR: In this article, a recent set of critical arguments concerning the post-crisis city and the political economy of "austerity urbanism" are discussed, with a focus on practical interventions in vacant and disused spaces of recessionary cities, and in particular on temporary designs and provisional uses.
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Urban Community Gardens as Spaces of Citizenship
Rina Ghose,Margaret Pettygrove +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of urban community gardening in the context of neoliberal economic restructuring is presented, where the authors examine the impacts of community gardening on citizenship practice and the effects of volunteerism on the development of community gardens.
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Urban Agriculture in the Food‐Disabling City: (Re)defining Urban Food Justice, Reimagining a Politics of Empowerment
TL;DR: In this paper, three interlinked strategies for action are presented: enhancing the reflexivity and cohesion of the urban food movement by articulating a challenge to neoliberal urbanism; converging urban and agrarian food justice struggles by shaping urban agroecology; and regaining control over social reproduction by engaging with food commoning.
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From Managerialism to Entrepreneurialism: The Transformation in Urban Governance in Late Capitalism
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Cities and the Geographies of “Actually Existing Neoliberalism”
Neil Brenner,Nik Theodore +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a critical geographical perspective on neoliberalism is presented, emphasizing the path-dependent character of neoliberal reform projects and the strategic role of cities in the contemporary remaking of political-economic space.
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The death of the social? Re-figuring the territory of government
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