Neo‐Liberalism, Police, and the Governance of Little Urban Things
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| 1. | Title | Title of document | Neo‐Liberalism, Police, and the Governance of Little Urban Things |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Randy K. Lippert; University of Windsor; Canada |
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| 4. | Description | Abstract | This article seeks to refine understandings of the governmental logics that comprise and shape urban governance. Drawing on research using ethnographic methods that explore the business improvement district (BID) and the condominium corporation (condo) it is argued that exclusive focus on urban neo-liberalism neglects an urban ”police.” This latter logic is most famously remarked upon in Michel Foucault’s writings as targeting “little things” in urban spaces. Both “police” and the ”free rider problem” it confronts predate and are irreducible to neo-liberalism. Ethnography helps discern this “police” as well as how neo-liberalism relates to it in private urban realms typically hidden from view. Examining BIDs and condos in this way shows that neo-liberalism and “police” co-exist and combine in the governance of urban residential and commercial life. This matters because it reveals a more complex picture of urban governance than is sometimes assumed when neo-liberalism is exclusively invoked and one that is necessarily considered when conceiving of alternative governing arrangements. |
| 5. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Copenhagen Business School |
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| 7. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 2014-10-17 |
| 8. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
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| 10. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://rauli.cbs.dk/index.php/foucault-studies/article/view/4651 |
| 10. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/fs.v0i18.4651 |
| 11. | Source | Title; vol., no. (year) | Foucault Studies; Number 18: October 2014: Ethnographies of Neoliberal Governmentalities |
| 12. | Language | English=en | en |
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Copyright (c) 2014 Randy K. Lippert This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. |