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Journal of Economic Geography Advance Access originally published online on August 8, 2008
Journal of Economic Geography 2009 9(1):143-145; doi:10.1093/jeg/lbn032
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Neoliberalization: states, networks, peoples

K. England and K. Ward (Eds)

Neoliberalization: states, networks, peoples
K England and K Ward (Eds) Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-1-4051-3431-6 (hardback). 323pp. Price: $89.95

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With Neoliberalization: States, Networks, Peoples, editors Kim England and Kevin Ward make a bold foray into an area of research that has picked up a great deal of steam among social scientists in recent years. From initial explorations by economic geographers focusing on implications for state reform, neoliberalism has expanded prodigiously into a field of academic inquiry that now sees scholars examining the imbrications between neoliberalism and cities, citizenship, nature, sexuality, subjectivity, discourse and development to name but a few. In concert with such theoretical expansion, definitional consensus about what is meant by ‘neoliberalism’ has waned. Consequently, some commentators are so deeply troubled by the ‘larger conversation’ that many geographers seem keen to participate in, or so disillusioned by the potential explanatory power of the concept that there now exists a willingness to proclaim neoliberalism as a ‘necessary illusion’ (Castree, 2006), or simply that ‘there is no such . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Simon Springer

Department of Geography, University of British Columbia


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