TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wolf, Hannah
A1  - Mackert, Jürgen
T1  - Introduction
T2  - Urban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis
N2  - The processes of neo-liberalisation, coined as ‘actually existing neo-liberalism’ are by their very nature variegated and context-specific and can appear in multi-faceted and contradictory forms. Consequentially, sociological reflection has tried to conceptualise ongoing processes of transforming the city under the concept of urban neo-liberalism which is generally understood as the contextually specific and path-dependent realisation of neo-liberal restructuration projects, embedded in varying social, political, economic, and cultural ‘regulatory landscapes’. As much as neo-liberalism as ideology and political programme aims at erasing any democratic participation in society, its proponents have taken sides pushing ahead the re-conceptualisation of the city as a market with the right of the stronger ‘to do down the weaker’. The city has become a focal point for neo-liberalism’s war against democracy and citizens. Turning social relations into market transactions in order to restructure cities is not a new idea from the neo-liberals but one of the non-negotiable dogmas of their religion called science.
Y1  - 2020
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/51117
SN  - 978-0-429-26228-9
SN  - 978-0-367-20564-5
SP  - 1
EP  - 14
PB  - Routledge
CY  - London
ER  -