Webinar: The austerity urbanism moment, and its historical geography - Jamie Peck

Описание: Webinar "The austerity urbanism moment, and its historical geography"
With Prof. Jamie Peck (University of British Columbia, Canada)
April 17, 2018

The moment of “austerity urbanism” was identified in the aftermath of the Wall Street crash of 2008, as a provisional concept relating to emergent patterns of regulatory restructuring in Europe and the United States. At the time, “austerity” possessed a political salience in Europe that it lacked in the United States, where in some respects its principal effects—devolved public-sector retrenchment—were already institutionalized if not naturalized. What are we to make, in retrospect as it were, about this austerity moment and its geography? What can we conclude about its longer-term and wider consequences? How are we to position the austerity moment theoretically, for instance in relation to ongoing processes of financialization and neoliberalization?

The presentation will draw on arguments recently developed in the following: Peck J (2018) Preface: situating austerity urbanism. In M Davidson & K Ward (eds) Cities under austerity: restructuring the U.S. metropolis. Albany: SUNY Press, xi-xxxviii; Peck J (2017) Transatlantic city, part 1: conjunctural urbanism. Urban Studies 54(1): 4-30; Peck J (2017) Transatlantic city, part 2: late entrepreneurialism. Urban Studies 54(2): 327–363; and Peck J and Whiteside H (2016) Financializing Detroit. Economic Geography 92(3): 235-268.

Jamie Peck is Canada Research Chair in Urban & Regional Political Economy, Distinguished University Scholar, and Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia. With long-term research interests in urban restructuring, geographical political economy, labour studies, the politics of policy formation and mobility, and economic geography, his current research is focused on the financial restructuring of U.S. cities, the politics of contingent labor, and the political economy of neoliberalization. His recent books include Offshore: Exploring the worlds of global outsourcing (2017, Oxford); Fast Policy: Experimental statecraft at the thresholds of neoliberalism (2015, Minnesota, with Nik Theodore); and Constructions of Neoliberal Reason (2010, Oxford). Jamie Peck is the Editor-in-Chief of the Environment and Planning series of journals.