This essay elaborates a critical geographical perspective on neoliberalism that emphasizes (a) the path–dependent character of neoliberal reform projects and (b) strategic role cities in contemporary remaking political–economic space. We begin by presenting methodological foundations for an approach to geographies what we term “actually existing neoliberalism.” In contrast ideology, which market forces are assumed operate according immutable laws no matter where they “unleashed,” emphasize...

Abstract Across the broad field of heterodox political economy, ‘neoliberalism’ appears to have become a rascal concept – promiscuously pervasive, yet inconsistently defined, empirically imprecise and frequently contested. Controversies regarding its precise meaning are more than merely semantic. They generally flow from underlying disagreements sources, expressions implications contemporary regulatory transformations. In this article, we consider handling within three influential strands...

The article critically engages with the `varieties of capitalism' school, which since its origins in early 1990s has been consolidated into one most influential strands comparative and heterodox political economy. While `varieties' approach can be credited development several evocative stylized facts economy, having served as a potent foil against orthodox globalization thesis, alternative vision bipolar global economy comprising two competing capitalisms is found to wanting. limited by...

In this article, we analyze the connections between neoliberalization processes and urban transformations. Cities have become strategically central sites in uneven, crisis-laden advance of neoliberal restructuring projects. However, contrast to ideology, our analysis draws attention path-dependent interactions projects inherited institutional spatial landscapes. Accordingly, emphasize geographically variable, yet multiscalar translocally interconnected, nature urbanism. We also suggest that...

Abstract: The onset of the global financial crisis in 2008 has been widely interpreted as a fundamental challenge to, if not of, neoliberal governance. Here, we explore some near‐term and longer‐run consequences economic for processes neoliberalization, asking whether have witnessing terminal unraveling neoliberalism form social, political, regulation. In many ways creature crisis, could now be falling to its own making? Answering this question is impossible, argue, without an adequate...

Abstract Against the background of debates on origins and implications global economic crisis 2008–2009, this essay presents a theoretical framework for analyzing processes regulatory restructuring under contemporary capitalism. The analysis is framed around concept neoliberalization, which we view as keyword understanding transformations our time. We begin with series definitional clarifications that underpin conceptualization neoliberalization variegated, geographically uneven...

Abstract Neoliberalization processes have been reshaping the landscapes of urban development for more than three decades, but their forms and consequences continue to evolve through an eclectic blend failure crisis, regulatory experimentation, policy transfer across places, territories scales. The proliferation familiar neoliberal discourses formulations in aftermath 2007‐09 world financial crisis masks evidence deeply rooted transformations policies, institutions spaces that combatively...

Over two decades ago, the term “restructuring” became a popular label for describing tumultuous political‐economic and spatial transformations that were unfolding across global urban system. As Edward Soja (Citation1987: 178; italics in original) indicated classic formulation:

The paper reflects on the methodological challenges involved in research movement and mutation of fast-moving policies, through globalizing networks across translocal settings. Inspired by ‘follow thing’ methods global ethnography program, it outlines a distended case-study approach to study policy mobilities.

Neoliberal policies, strategies, and rationalities have been further entrenched rather than abandoned in the wake of 2008-2009 Great Recession. Understanding this state affairs requires careful reflection on process neoliberalization as a crisis-induced, crisis-inducing form market-disciplinary regulatory restructuring. Against monolithic conceptualizations that prevail most popular academic accounts, we emphasize constitutively uneven, institutionally hybrid, chronically unstable character...

Hiring‐halls, specializing in the placement of day‐laborers temporary jobs, have recent years been proliferating along major transport arteries Chicago's low‐income neighborhoods. This article examines phenomenon low‐wage work Chicago from perspective principal institutional actors these highly ‘flexibilized’ or ‘contingent’ labor markets – ‘temp’ agencies. Particular emphasis is placed on labor‐market effects temp‐agency strategies, both respect to patterns segmentation and terms spatial...

Cieszy nas możliwość dołączenia do debaty na temat historyczności państwa neoliberalnego, zainagurowanej przez prowokujące dyskusji teksty Loïca Wacquanta i Mathieu Hilgersa, opublikowane w "Social Anthropology"

The paper explores the evolution of urban policy discourses among advanced industrial nations in period since early 1980s, by way a case study OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). OECD, it is argued, has provided an arena consolidation particular form neoliberal urbanism, conceived here as mutating frame. As consensus-finding organization, more mediator than unilateral driver conventions. It not site hard-edged or radical innovation, but seeks to define ‘common...