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Working the Spaces of Neoliberalism: Activism, Professionalisation and Incorporation

Nina Laurie (Editor), Liz Bondi (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-3800-0
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256 pages
February 2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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Introduction
Liz Bondi and Nina Laurie 1

1 After Neoliberalism? Community Activism and Local Partnerships in Aotearoa New Zealand
Wendy Larner and David Craig 9

2 Authority and Expertise: The Professionalisation of International Development and the Ordering of Dissent
Uma Kothari 32

3 Dropping Out or Signing Up? The Professionalisation of Youth Travel
Kate Simpson 54

4 Ethnodevelopment: Social Movements, Creating Experts and Professionalising Indigenous Knowledge in Ecuador
Nina Laurie, Robert Andolina and Sarah Radcliffe 77

5 Working the Spaces of Neoliberal Subjectivity: Psychotherapeutic Technologies, Professionalisation and Counselling
Liz Bondi 104

6 Desiring Sameness? The Rise of a Neoliberal Politics ofNormalisation
Diane Richardson 122

7 Making Space for ‘‘Neo-communitarianism’’? The Third Sector, State and Civil Society in the UK
Nicholas R Fyfe 143

8 Caught in the Middle: The State, NGOs, and the Limits to Grassroots Organizing Along the US–Mexico Border
Rebecca Dolhinow 164

9 ‘‘The Experts Taught Us All We Know’’: Professionalisation and Knowledge in Nepalese Community Forestry
Andrea J Nightingale 186

Commentaries

10 Working the Spaces of Neoliberalism
Marcus Power 209

11 No Way Out? Incorporating and Restructuring the Voluntary Sector within Spaces of Neoliberalism
Katy Jenkins 216

12 Professional Geographies
Nicholas Blomley 222

13 Partners in Crime? Neoliberalism and the Production of New Political Subjectivities
Cindi Katz 227

Index 236

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