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by: Stenning, Alison; Smith, Adrian; Rochovská; , Alena; Ś; wią; tek, Dariusz

ISBN: 9781405169905 | 1405169907

Domesticating Neo-Liberalism addresses how we understand the processes of neo-liberalization in post-socialist cities. The book develops a conceptualization of these processes that is grounded in the diversity of everyday economic practices and in the ways that the economies of neo-liberalism are 'domesticated'. Based on in-depth research in Poland and Slovakia, it explores how households attempt to create the circumstances for their social reproduction at times when labour markets and job prospects are being transformed and social relationship... MOREs are rapidly changing. It investigates how households not only attempt to make these wider political-economic changes more tolerable but how, in doing so, they also establish some of the conditions for the re-making of neo-liberalization.

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Based on in-depth research in Poland and Slovakia, Domesticating Neo-Liberalism addresses how we understand the processes of neo-liberalization in post-socialist cities. Builds upon a vast amount of new research data Examines how households try to sustain their livelihoods at particularly dramatic and difficult times of urban transformation Provides a major contribution to how we theorize the geographies of neo-liberalism Offers a conclusion which informs discussions of social policy within European Union enlargement

Alison Stenning in Professor of Social and Economic Geography in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University. She has worked on the geographies of post-socialism for more than 15 years, focusing particularly on issues of work, class, gender and community. She has published two edited books and more than 40 book chapters and articles in this field, based on research funded by, amongst others, the ESRC and the Nuffield Foundation. Adrian Smith is Professor of Human Geography at Queen Mary, University of London. He works on the economic and social geographies of transformation from state socialism in East-Central Europe, with a particular focus on industrial and regional change and on community and household economies. This research has involved a number of externally-funded research projects including ESRC, Nuffield and US National Science Foundation. Alena Rochovsk is a lecturer at Comenius University in Bratislava. Previously she worked as a Research Fellow at Queen Mary; University of London on the ESRC-funded project on 'Social Exclusion, Spaces of Household Economic Practice and Post-Socialism'. She has published widely on the feminization of poverty, feminist geography and the geographies of social inequality in Slovakia. Dariusz Swiatek is a researcher at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Organisation of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, who previously worked as a Research Fellow at Newcastle University on the ESRC-funded project on 'Social Exclusion, Spaces of Household Economic Practice and Post-Socialism'. He has published on unemployment problems, housing market changes and the development of suburban areas in Poland.