NEOLIBERALISM: GOVERNMENTALITY IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

GRADUATE PROGRAM IN SOCIOLEGAL STUDIES SLST 6028

GRADUATE PROGRAM IN ANTHROPOLOGY ANTH #TBD

Rosemary J. Coombe, Canada Research Chair, Departments of Anthropology and Social

Science
(with the assistance of Daniel Huizenga)
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 5-8 pm, May 5-June 18, 2015, TEL Building, Room 2008

What is neoliberalism? The word is everywhere, but what does it mean? Is it just a new word for
capitalism or does it indicate a specific kind of capitalism? This course will start with the
proposition that neoliberalism involves a fundamental reconfiguration of the field of regulation
that entails a reengineering of the state and a transnational field of market-oriented regulatory
transfer. Regulation is shaped by law and state initiatives, but it is also a social activity that
includes persuasion, influence, voluntary compliance and self-regulation (Braithwaite 2006:
19). This is especially the case under contemporary conditions of neoliberal governmentality,
in which non-state actors (international institutions, NGOs, public-private partnerships, religious
institutions, and corporations) increasingly engage in activities which govern populations and
encourage people to adopt new forms of self-regulation.
We will explore both ideologies and practices of neoliberal governmentality using the work of
critical theorists and geographers and ethnographers of neoliberal practice. Drawing upon work
influenced by late Foucaultian theory, students will be introduced to key concepts in debates in
anthropology, geography, and political theory that are common to explorations of neoliberalism
in spheres as diverse as criminal corrections, cultural heritage management, environmental
protection, international development, social work, and urban planning.

The first six weeks (after the introductory session) will introduce students to fundamental
framing materials to introduce key theorists and key concepts including governmentality,
biopolitics, assemblage, technologies, assemblage, territorialisation, subjectification and
community, with an emphasis upon spaces of and resources for social agency. The remainder of
the course will examine three topics that students will choose from amongst optional modules
(representative readings are included here). Possible options include biotechnology, citizenship,
social welfare, urban planning, culture as resource, environmentalism, international
development, and indigeneity. In our final week we might explore the concept of
postneoliberalism as it has evolved since the financial crisis of 2008, particularly in the Latin
American context where a rejection or reformulation of neoliberalism appears to be most
entrenched. If students choose not to do this as a final topic, we can have four optional modules.

The course is global in terms of the discourses, institutions and relations of power it analyzes and
the transnational networks with which it is concerned but puts emphasis on how these
assemblages are locally experienced, understood, and rearticulated.

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CLASS ONE, May 5th
INTRODUCTION
Go through syllabus. Introduce themes. Discuss methods of evaluation. All reading notes are due
at the beginning of the class at which the readings are discussed, in order to improve the class
conversation and ensure that there are some students who have read the materials in depth to
assist the moderators. Response notes should be 8-12 pages long but notes up to 18 pages will be
read and graded.
Evaluation
Three choices available to all students:
1. Two weeks in which students moderate discussion of course readings (60%). If most students
choose this or option 2, students will share responsibility working in pairs. Participation (10%).
Two sets of response notes for readings other than those the student has moderated (30%). One
set of notes to be completed before May 28, 2015.
2. Two weeks in which students moderate discussion of course readings (60%). Participation
(10%). If most students choose this or option 2, students will share responsibility, working in
pairs. A short paper (15 pages) will be written addressing one of the unchosen topical modules
that applies or questions the ways in which the theoretical concepts have been developed in that
topical field (30%). Additional research is welcome, but not necessary. Papers would be due
rrive on August 22.
3. One week in which student moderates discussion of readings (30%). Participation (10%). A
longer paper (30 pages) in which student does further research on a topical module to explore the
ways in which the theoretical concepts have been used in interdisciplinary scholarship on the
topic and an annotated bibliography of suggested readings for use in the course in the future
(60%). Ideas and a proposal for this paper would be due by May 28. Papers would be due July
3.
Professor Coombe is in Germany and Switzerland from May 6th until May 13th.
CLASS TWO, May 14th
INTRODUCING NEOLIBERALISM AND REGULATION
(Students to indicate top four choices for moderation weeks on a piece of paper with topics
listed by title. Students doing only one moderation should list their top three).
Neoliberalism
Harvey, David (2005) A Brief History of Neoliberalism. New York: Oxford. (Introduction and
Chapter One, Freedoms Just Another Word for political economic history of neoliberalism).
pp. 1-38.
Wacquant, Louis (2012) Three steps to a historical anthropology of actually existing
neoliberalism. Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale 20: 6679.

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Ferguson, James (2009) The Uses of Neoliberalism. Antipode 41 (5): 166-84.
Regulation
Broomhill, Ray (2001) Neoliberal globalism and the local state: a regulation approach. Journal
of Australian Political Economy 48: 115-140.
Grabosky, P. (2013) Beyond responsive regulation: The expanding role of non-state actors in the
regulatory process. Regulation and Governance 7(1): 114-123.

Himley, Matthew (2012) Regularizing Social Extraction in Andean Peru: Mining and Social
Mobilization in an Era of Corporate Social Responsibility. Antipode 42 (2): 394-416. Read only
Regularizing Extraction pp. 397-399.

Drahos, Peter (2014) Regulatory Capitalism, Globalization and the End of History. Intellectual
Property Law and Policy Journal 1: 1-23. (READ ONLY Pgs 15-23).
Background:
Braithwaite, John (2008) Regulatory Capitalism: How it Works, Ideas for Making it Work Better.
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. (Chapter one, Pgs 1-31).
Peck, James (2010) Constructions of Neoliberal Reason. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Constructions of Neoliberal Reason, pg 1-34, and Between Gotham and the Golf, pg 134-
181. DROPBOX

CLASS THREE, May 19th

GOVERNMENTALITY
Rose, Nikolas and Miller, Peter (2010) Political Power beyond the State: problematics of
government. British Journal of Sociology 61: 271-303.
Larner, Wendy (2000) Neo-liberalism: Policy, ideology, governmentality. Studies in Political
Economy 63: 5-25.
Rose, N., Valverde, M. and OMalley, P. (2006) Governmentality. Annual Review of Law and
Social Science 2: 83-104.
Collier, Stephen J. (2009) Topologies of power: Foucault's analysis of political government
beyond 'governmentality'. Theory, Culture and Society 26(6): 78-108. READ ONLY pgs 96-100.
Background:
Foucault, Michel (1991) Governmentality. In The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality,
ed. by Graham Burchell, Colin Gordon, and Peter Miller, pp. 87-104. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press.

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CLASS FOUR, May 21st
SUBJECTIFICATION AND COMMUNITY
Subjectification
Rose, Nicholas (1996) Governing advanced liberal democracies. In Andrew Barry, Thomas
Osborne and Nikolas Rose, eds., Foucault and Political Reason. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, subsection titled Advanced Liberalism pp. 50-64.
Read, Jason (2009) A Genealogy of Homo-Economicus: Neoliberalism and the Production of
Subjectivity. Foucault Studies 6: 25-36.
Larner, Wendy and Craig (2005) Community Activism and Local Partnerships in Aotearoa New
Zealand. Antipode 37 (3): 402-406 and 414-420 ONLY.
Katz, Cindi (2005) Partners in Crime? Neoliberalism and the production of new subjectivities.
Antipode 37 (3): 623-31.

Background:

Clifford, Michael (2001) Political Genealogy After Foucault: Savage Identities. New York:
Routledge, pp. 6-15 Outline of Political Genealogy, 95-124 Governmentality and the Axes of
Political Experience.

Barnett, Clive, et. al. (2011) The Elusive Subjects of Neoliberalism. Cultural Studies 22 (5): 624-
653 (an extended critique of the governmentality perspectives on subjectification).

Bondi, Liz (2005) Working the Spaces of Neoliberal Subjectivity: Psychotherapeutic

Technologies, Professionalisation and Counselling. Antipode, 37(3): 497-514.

Community
Bennett, Tony (2000) Acting on the Social: Art, Culture and Government. American Behavioral
Scientist 43(9): 1412-1428.

Love, Bridget (2013) Treasure Hunts in Rural Japan: Place Making at the Limits of
Sustainability. American Anthropologist 115(1): 112-124.

Mayes, R., P. McDonald and B. Pini (2014) 'Our' community: Corporate social responsibility,
neoliberalisation, and mining industry community engagement in rural Australia. Environment
and Planning A 46 (2): 398-413.

Coombe R.J. (2011) Possessing Culture: Political Economies of Community Subjects and their
Properties in M. Busse and V. Strang (eds.) Ownership and Appropriation. Oxford: Berg
Publishers, pp. 105-27.

Background:

Walker, M., S. M. Roberts, J. P. Jones III, and O. Frhling (2008) Neoliberal development
through technical assistance: Constructing communities of entrepreneurial subjects in Oaxaca,
Mexico. Geoforum 39 (1): 527-42.

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CLASS FIVE, May 26th
ASSEMBLAGES AND TERRITORIALIZATION
Assemblage
Collier, Stephen (2006) Global Assemblages. Theory, Culture, & Society 23(2-3): 399-401.
Ferguson, James and Gupta, Akhil (2002) Spatializing States: Towards an Ethnography of
neoliberal governmentality. American Ethnologist 29 (4): 981-1002.
Ong, Aiwa (2007) Neoliberalism as a mobile technology. Transactions of the Institute of British
Geographers 32(1): 38.
McFarlane, Colin (2009) Translocal assemblages: Space, power and social movements.
Geoforum 40(4): 561-567.

Background:
Anderson, Ben, Matthew Kearnes, Colin McFarlane and Dan Swanton (2012) On assemblages
and geography. Dialogues in Human Geography 2: 171-189. (Good, if difficult, overview of
theoretical geneology of the concept).
Territory

Painter, Joe (2010) Rethinking Territory. Antipode 42 (5): 10901118.

Hale, Charles (2012) Resistance, Pur qui? Territory, Autonomy and Neoliberal Entanglements in
the Empty Spaces of Central America. Economy and Society 40 (2): 184-210.

Reyes, Alvaro and Mara Kaufman (2011) Sovereignty, Indigeneity, Territory: Zapatista
Autonomy and the New Practices of Decolonization. South Atlantic Quarterly 110(2): 505-528.

Background:
TBD.
CLASS SIX, May 28th
TECHNOLOGIES: STANDARDS, AUDITS AND RATIONALITIES
Barry, Andrew, Osborne, Thomas and Nikolas Rose (1996) Introduction. In Andrew Barry,
Thomas Osborne and Nikolas Rose, eds., Foucault and Political Reason. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, pp. 1-17.
Busch, Lawrence (2011) Standards, recipes for reality. Cambridge: MIT Press. pp. 17-34, 151-
200, 279-288.

Dunn, Elizabeth (2005) Standards and Person-Making in East Central Europe. In Aihwa Ong and
Stephen J. Collier, eds., Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as
Anthropological Problems. Malden: Blackwell, pp. 173-193.

Higgins, W. and K. Tamm Hallstrm (2007) Standardization, Globalization and Rationalities of

Government. Organization 14(5): 685704.

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Background:

Gibbon, Peter and Lase Folke Henriksen (2012) A Standard Fit for Neoliberalism. Comparative
Studies in Society and History 54(2): 275-307.

Timmermans, Stefan and Steven Epstein (2010). A World of Standards but not a Standard
World: Toward a Sociology of Standards and Standardization. Annual Review of Sociology 36:
69-89.

THE NEXT SIX CLASSES ARE REPRESENTATIVE OF WHAT STUDENTS WILL

READ; THE ACTUAL MODULES ARE VOTED ON BY STUDENTS WHO WILL
CHOOSE FROM AMONGST THE MODULES LISTED FOR CLASSES 7-12 AND
THOSE LISTED AS OPTIONAL FOR PAPER TOPICS. THOSE NOT CHOSEN FOR
CLASS DISCUSSIONS ARE AVAILABLE FOR PAPER TOPICS.
CLASS SEVEN, June 2nd
BIOPOLITICS
Lemke, Thomas (2012) Biopolitics: An Introduction. New York and London: New York
University Press. Pp. 1-76. Book is an e-book in York library. Copies online in slideshow.
Oksala, J. (2013) Neoliberalism and Biopolitical Governmentality. In Jakob Nilsson and Sven-
Olov Wallenstein, eds., Foucault, Biopolitics and Governmentality (Sdertrn Philosophical
Studies) pp. 53-71. (Full e-book available as free download).
http://progressivegeographies.com/2013/04/15/%EF%BB%BFfoucault-biopolitics-and-
governmentality-e-book/

Venn, Couze (2009) Neoliberal Political Economy, Biopolitics and Colonialism: A

Transcolonial Genealogy of Inequality. Theory, Culture and Society 26(6): 206-233

Background:

Nguyen, Vinh-Kim (2005) Antiretroviral Globalism, Biopolitics and Therapeutic Citizenship

in Aihwa Ong and Stephen J. Collier, eds., Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and
Ethics as Anthropological Problems. Malden: Blackwell, 124-144. DROPBOX
Wilse, Craig (2010) Neo-liberal biopolitics and the invention of chronic homelessness. Economy
and Society 39 (2): 155-185.

CLASS EIGHT, June 4th

PENALITY, POVERTY, POWER

Clarke, John (2007) Subordinating the Social? Neoliberalism and the remaking of Welfare
Capitalism. Cultural Studies 21 (6): 974-987.
Lazzarato, Maurizio (2009) Neoliberalism in Action: Inequality, Insecurity and the
Reconstitution of the Social. Theory Culture Society 26(6): 109-133.

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Wacquant, L. (2010) Crafting the neoliberal state: Workfare, prisonfare, and social Insecurity.
Sociological Forum 25 (2): 197-220.

Valverde, Mariana and Michael Mopas (2004) Insecurity and the dream of targeted
governance. In Wendy Larner and William Walters (eds). Global Governmentality: Governing
International Spaces. New York: Routledge, pp. 233-250.

Background:

Longazel, J.G. and B. Fleury-Steiner (2013) Beware of Notarios: Neoliberal Governance of

Immigrants as Crime Victims. Theoretical Criminology 17(3): 35976.

CLASS NINE, June 9th

CITIZENSHIP AND BORDER STUDIES

Swyngedouw, Erik (2005). Governance Innovation and the Citizen: The Janus Face of
Governance-beyond-the-State. Urban Studies 42(11): 1991-2006.

Sparke, M. B. (2006). A neoliberal nexus: Economy, security and the biopolitics of citizenship
on the border. Political Geography 25(2): 151-180.

Schinkel, Willem and Friso van Houdt (2010) The double helix of cultural assimilationism
and neo-liberalism: citizenship in contemporary governmentality. British Journal of Sociology
61 (4): 691-715.

Muehlebach, Andrea (2011) On Affective Labour in Post-fordist Italy. Cultural Anthropology 26

(1): 59-82.

Ong, Aihwa (2005) Ecologies of Expertise: Assembling Flows, Managing Citizenship. In in

Aihwa Ong and Stephen J. Collier, eds., Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics
as Anthropological Problems. Malden: Blackwell Publishing. pp. 337-353.

Background:

Salter, M. (2008) When the exception becomes the rule: borders, sovereignty, and citizenship.
Citizenship Studies 12 (4): 365-380.

CLASS TEN, June 11th

HUMAN RIGHTS

Sokhi-Bulley, Bal (2013) Human rights as technologies of the self: creating the European
governmentable subject of rights. In Ben Golder ed., Re-Reading Foucault: On Law, Power, and
Rights. New York: Routledge, pp. 229-247.

Englund, Harry (2006) Prisoners of Freedom: Human Rights and the Africa Poor. Berkeley/Los
Angeles/London: University of California Press. Pg 34-46 (of chapter one), and Pg. 70-98
(Chapter 3).

Jung, Courtney (2003) The Politics of Indigenous Identity: Neoliberalism, Cultural Rights and
the Mexican Zapatistas. Social Research 70: 433-462.
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Li, Tania (2007) The Limits of Governmentality. Anthropologica 49 (2): 275-281.

Coombe, Rosemary J. (2007) The Work of Rights at Governmentalitys Limits. Anthropologica 49

(2): 284-299.

Goldstein, Daniel (2012) Decolonizing actually existing neoliberalism. Social Anthropology,

20(3): 304-309.

Background:

Patton, Paul (2013) Historical normativity and the basis of rights. In Ben Golder (ed) Re-Reading
Foucault: On Law, Power, and Rights. New York: Routledge, pp. 188-206.

Santos, Boaventura de Sousa (2007) Human Rights as Emancipatory Script? Cultural and
Political Conditions, in Boaventura de Sousa Santos (ed.), Another Knowledge is Possible:
Beyond Northern Epistemologies. London: Verso. pp. 3-40.

Whyte, Jessica (2013) Is revolution desirable? Michel Foucault on revolution, neoliberalism and
rights. In Ben Golder ed., Re-Reading Foucault: On Law, Power, and Rights. New York:
Routledge, pp. 207-228.

CLASS ELEVEN, June 16th

INDIGENEITY AND NEOLIBERALISM

Li, Tania (2010) Indigeneity, Capitalism, and the Management of Dispossession. Current
Anthropology 51 (3): 385-414.

Jung, Courtney (2003) The Politics of Indigenous Identity: Neoliberalism, Cultural Rights and
the Mexican Zapatistas. Social Research 70: 433-462.

Macdonald, Fiona (2011) Indigenous Peoples and Neoliberal Privatization in Canada:

Opportunities, Cautions and Constraints. Canadian Journal of Political Science 44 (2): 257-293.

Bryan, J. (2011) Walking the Line: Participatory Mapping, Indigenous Rights and Neoliberalism.
Geoforum 42: 40-50.
OR
Radcliffe, Sarah (2010) Re-Mapping the Nation: Cartography, Geographical Knowledge and
Ecuadorian Multiculturalism. Journal of Latin American Studies 42: 293-323.

Background:

TBD

CLASS TWELVE, June 18th

CONCLUDING DISCUSSION: POSTNEOLIBERALISM OR NEOLIBERALISMS

OTHERS (to be edited down)
Gibson-Graham, J.K. (2008). Diverse Economies: Performative Practices for Other Worlds.
Progress in Human Geography 32 (5): 120.

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Edelman, Marc (2005) Bringing the Moral Economy back into the Study of 21st Century
Transnational Peasant Movements, American Anthropologist 107 (3): 331-345.

Springer, S. (2012) Anarchism! What Geography Ought to Be. Antipode 44 (5): 1605-1624.

Robinson, Andrew and Tormey, Simon (2012) Beyond the state: Anthropology and actually
existing anarchism. Critique of Anthropology 32(2): 143157.

Osco, Marcelo Fernandez (2010). Ayllu: Critical Thinking and (An)other Autonomy. In Blaser,
M. et. al. eds., Indigenous Peoples and Autonomy Vancouver: University of British Columbia
Press, pp. 27-48.

Angel Contreras Natera, Miguel (2013) Postscript: Insurgent Imaginaries and Postneoliberalism
in Latin America (translated by Nancy Postero). In Mark Goodale and Nancy Postero (eds.)
Neoliberalism, Interrupted: Social Change and Contested Governance in Contemporary Latin
America. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Pp. 249-267.

Background:

Peck, J., Theodore, N. Brenner, N. (2010) Postneoliberalism and its malcontents. Antipode 41:
94-116.

OPTIONAL MODULES FOR STUDENT PAPERS

BIOTECHNOLOGY and BIOSUBJECTS

Rose, Nicholas (2001) The Politics of Life Itself. Theory, Culture and Society 18(6): 1-30.

Lemke, Thomas (2011) Biopolitics: An Introduction. New York: New York University Press, pp.
77-123. E-Book and slideshow online.

Gerlach, Neil, Hamilton, Sheryl, Sullivan, Rebecca and Priscilla Walton (2011) Introduction,
Biosecurity, Bioterrorism, and Epidemics, and Conclusion: Becoming Biosubjects in
Becoming Biosubjects: Bodies, Systems, Technologies. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp.
1-27, 136-172, 173-188. NEED SCAN

Amoore, Louise (2006) Biometric borders: governing mobilities in the war on terror. Political
Geography 25 (3): 336-351.

Background:

TBD.

EMPLOYMENT, SECURITY, AND THE ENTREPRENEURIAL SELF (3 votes)

Rose, Nicholas. (1999) Powers of Freedom: Reframing Political Thought. New York:
Cambridge University Press. Chapter 2, Freedom, pp. 61-97.

OMalley, Patrick (1996) Risk and Responsibility. In Andrew Barry, Thomas Osborne &
Nikolas Rose (eds.), Foucault and Political Reason. Liberalism, Neo-Liberalism and
Rationalities of Government. London: UCL Press) 189-207.
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Peters, Michael (2001) Education, Enterprise Culture and the Entrepreneurial Self: A
Foucauldian Perspective. Journal of Education Enquiry 2(2): 58-71.

Background:

TBD

CULTURE AS RESOURCE AND RESISTANCE

Bennett, Tony (1998) Cultural Studies: The Foucault Effect. In Culture: A Reformers Science
(Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications), 60-75. DROPBOX

Bennett, Tony (2007) The Work of Culture. Cultural Sociology 1(1): 31-47.
Bennett, Tony and Chris Healy (2009) Introduction: Assembling Culture. Journal of Cultural
Economy 2(1-2): 1-10.

Taylor, Marcus (2010) Conscripts of Competitiveness: Culture, Institutions and Capital in

Contemporary Development. Third World Quarterly 31 (4): 561-579.

Gershon, Ilana (2011) Neoliberal Agency. Current Anthropology 52 (4): 537-555.

Coombe, Rosemary J. (2012) Managing Cultural Heritage as Neoliberal Governmentality, In

Regina Bendix, Aditya Eggert, Arnika Peselmann, and Sven Miling, eds., Heritage Regimes
and the State. Gttingen: Gttingen University Press, 375-389. DROPBOX

Background:

Fernandes, Sujatha (2013) Culture and Neoliberal Rationalities in Postneoliberal Venezuela. In

Mark Goodale and Nancy Postero (eds.) Neoliberalism, Interrupted: Social Change and
Contested Governance in Contemporary Latin America. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Pp.
53-72. DROPBOX

Coombe, Rosemary J. (2005) Legal Claims to Culture in and Against the Market: Neoliberalism
and the Global Proliferation of Meaningful Difference. Law, Culture and Humanities 1 (1): 35-
52.

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Watts, Michael (2003) Development and Governmentality. Singapore Journal of Tropical

Geography 24(1): 6-34.

Li, Tania (2007) The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development and the Practice of
Politics. Durham: Duke University Press, pp. 96-155, 230-245, 274-283.

Walker, M., S. M. Roberts, J. P. Jones III, and O. Frhling (2008) Neoliberal development
through technical assistance: Constructing communities of entrepreneurial subjects in Oaxaca,
Mexico. Geoforum 39 (1): 527-42.

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Laurie, Nina, Robert Andolina and Sarah Radcliffe (2005) Ethnodevelopment: Social
Movements, Creating Experts and Professionalising Indigenous Knowledge in Ecuador.
Antipode 37(3): 470-496.

Radcliffe, Sarah. (2012) Development for a Post-Neoliberal Era? Sumak Kawsay, living well
and the limits of decolonization in Ecuador. Geoforum 43: 240-9.

Background:

Himley, Matthew (2012) Regularizing Social Extraction in Andean Peru: Mining and Social
Mobilization in an Era of Corporate Social Responsibility. Antipode 42 (2): 394-416.

Postero, Nancy (2013) Bolivias Challenge to Colonial Neoliberalism. In Mark Goodale and
Nancy Postero (eds.) Neoliberalism, Interrupted: Social Change and Contested Governance in
Contemporary Latin America. Stanford: Stanford University Press, pp. 25-52.

ENVIRONMENTALISM

Castree, Noel (2008) Neoliberalising Nature: the logics of deregulation and reregulation.
Environment and Planning A 40: 131-152.

Agrawal, Arun (2005) Enivronmentality: Community, Intimate Government, and the Making of
Environmental Subjects in Kumaon, India. Current Anthropology, 46(2): 161-OMIT
COMMENTARIES.

Agrawal, Arun (2010) Environment, Community, Government. In In the Name of Humanity:

The Government of Threat and Care. I. Feldman and M. Ticktin, eds. Durham: Duke University
Press, pp. 190-217.

Cepek, Michael (2011) Foucault in the Forest: Questioning Environmentality in Amazonia.

American Ethnologist 38 (3): 501-515.

Perreault, Thomas (2009) Assessing the Limits of neoliberal environmental governance in

Bolivia. In Burdock, Oxhorn, Roberts, eds., Beyond Neoliberalism in Latin America? Societies
and Politics at the Crossroads. New York: Macmillan, pp. 135-56.

Bakker, K. (2010) The Limits of Neoliberal Natures: debating green neoliberalism. Progress in
Human Geography 34: 715-735.

Background:

Cohen, A. (2012) Rescaling environmental governance: Watersheds as boundary objects at the

intersection of science, neoliberalism, and participation. Environment and Planning A 44 (9):
2207-24.

Bain, Carmen and Hatanaka Maki (2010) The Practice of Third-Party Certification: Enhancing
Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice in the Global South?. In V. Higgins and W.
Larner (eds) Calculating the Social: Standards and the Reconfiguration of Governing. London:
Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 56-74.

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URBAN PLANNING

Hackworth, Jason (2007) The Neoliberal City: Governance, Ideology, and Development in
American Urbanism. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. The Place, Time, and
Process of Neoliberal Urbanism pp. 1-14.

McCann, Eugene and Kevin Ward (2011) Introduction. Urban Assemblages: Territories,
Relations, Practices, and Power. In E. McCann and K. Ward K eds., Mobile Urbanism: City
Policymaking in the Global Age. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. xii-xxiii.

Brenner, Neil, Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore (2013) Towards Deep Neoliberalism? In Jenny
Kunkel and Margit Mayer eds. Neoliberal Urbanism and its Contestations: Crossing Theoretical
Boundaries. New York: Palgrave McMillan, pp. 27-62.

McFarlane C. (2011) The city as assemblage: Dwelling and urban space. Environment and
Planning D: Society and Space 29(4): 649671.

Mayer, Margit and Jenny Kunkel (2013) Introduction: Neoliberal Urbanism and its Contestations
Crossing Theoretical Boundaries. In Jenny Kunkel and Margit Mayer eds. Neoliberal
Urbanism and its Contestations: Crossing Theoretical Boundaries. New York: Palgrave
McMillan, pp. 3-26.

Background:

Mitchell, Timothy (2009) How Neoliberalism Makes Its World: The Urban Property Rights
Project in Peru. In P. Mirowski and D. Plehwe, eds. The Road From Mont Plerin: The Making
of the Neoliberal Thought Collective. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, pp. 386-416.

Valverde, M. (2011) Seeing like a city: The dialectic of modern and premodern ways of seeing in
urban governance. Law and Society Review 45(2): 277-312.

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