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(Re)assembling neoliberal logics in the service of climate justice: Fuzziness and perverse consequences in the fossil fuel divestment assemblage
No full textSocially motivated divestment from the fossil fuel industry is occurring at a rapid rate. Banks, pension funds, universities, and philanthropic organizations around the world are divesting vast amounts of capital. Based on empirical data from face-to-face interviews with key divestment actors in the UK and Australia, this chapter explores the entanglements between the divestment and neoliberal assemblages. By approaching this topic through the analytical frame of assemblage, we highlight the perverse consequences arising from the mobilization of the responsible citizen subject through free market mechanisms. That is, whilst the divestment movement achieves its aims in disrupting flows of capital around the fossil fuel industry, it unwittingly reproduces neoliberalizing logics by reinforcing a shift away from the state as the key corporate regulator
Rethinking urban entrepreneurialism: Bristol Green Capital–in it for good?
No full textUrban entrepreneurialism is generally characterized by a series of spectacular events, organized and orchestrated by powerful actors. Recently, this has given rise to a series of urban policy agendas that have become ubiquitous across the world. This paper draws attention to an emergent form of urban entrepreneurialism that privileges environmentalism, social inclusion and grassroots creativity. Based on the 2015 European Green Capital process taking place in Bristol in the United Kingdom, this paper shows how the European Green Capital Award is being used to engage a large and diverse range of organizations in the name of the Bristol Green Capital Partnership. We argue that rather than reiterating narratives of urban entrepreneurialism as dominated by narrow economic agendas and being socially exclusionary, this form of urban entrepreneurialism encourages us to look at cities as places that can be coproduced in context-sensitive ways by multiple entities. The paper is informed by primary data gathered through fieldwork conducted over 2014 and 2015, including primary documents, key informant interviews and participant observation.</p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
The Strengthening Families Strategy: an Enduring Model of Interagency Collaboration in an Era of Change
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The topic of this doctoral research is interagency collaboration in the field of social services. In New Zealand, as in many other countries, the introduction of new public management reforms during the mid 1980s to 1990s are widely considered to have contributed to increased service fragmentation and departmental siloisation. During this period, and partly as a consequence of the reforms, there was a marked breakdown in interagency coordination and cooperation. At the same time, relationships between government and community agencies involved in the delivery of social services to families with multiple needs became severely strained
The politics of Expertise: Neoliberalism, Governance and the Practice of Politics
No full textThis chapter concerns neoliberalism and its “others”, and how the relationship between them is mediated through different forms of expertise. In much of the literature expertise is viewed as inherently depoliticizing: "Experts hold out the hope that the problems of regulation can remove themselves from the disputed terrain of politics and relocate onto the tranquil yet seductive terrain of truth" (Rose and Miller 1992: 188).
In this chapter my focus is rather different. I want to explore the forms of expertise that are deployed to mediate and contest neoliberal reason: to mitigate its consequences, to manage its contradictions and to prefigure alternative rationalities. Such forms of expertise are not easily codified: they are generated and deployed in multiple spaces of negotiation and contestation, and are affective as much as technical
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