September 8, 2001

NEOLIBERALISM AND THE CITY
contact Esteleta Cameron (Cameron@uic.edu)

Workshop Invitation

NEOLIBERALISM AND THE CITY
Friday, September 7  Saturday, September 8, 2001
 

Sponsors:
UIC Center for Urban Economic Development
Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography
Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
 

Conveners:
Neil Brenner, New York University
Nik Theodore, University of Illinois at Chicago
 

Location:
Great Cities Institute
University of Illinois at Chicago
4th Floor Conference Room
 

We are convening an academic workshop on cities as strategic sites for neoliberal forms of political-economic restructuring.  Workshop presenters include some of the leading scholars working in radical geography.  Written papers are available.
 

Faculty and students welcome … but space is limited.
Please contact Esteleta Cameron (Cameron@uic.edu) to let us know which sessions you would like to attend.  For more information contact Nik Theodore (UPP & CUED).
  Friday September 7

10:00-10:15Introduction and welcome
Nik Theodore, University of Illinois at Chicago

10:15-12:15SESSION ONE:  The Urbanization of neoliberalism

Introductory remarks.
Cities and the geographies of ‘actually existing neoliberalism’
Neil Brenner, New York University
Nik Theodore, University of Illinois at Chicago

 
Opening lecture.
Theses on neoliberalism and the city
Bob Jessop, Lancaster University
  
12:15-1:45Lunch

1:45-3:30SESSION TWO:  Theorizing neoliberalism and the city

Neoliberalizing space:  the free economy and the penal state
Jamie Peck, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Adam Tickell, University of Bristol

Neoliberalism and socialisation in the contemporary city:
opposites, complements and instabilities
Jamie Gough, University of Northumbria

3:30-4:15Coffee Break

4:15-6:00SESSION THREE:  Neoliberalism and the city in western Europe

Interpreting Neoliberal Urban Policy:
The State, Crisis Management, and the Politics of Scale
Martin Jones, University of Wales
Kevin Ward, University of Manchester

‘The city is dead, long live the network’:
Harnessing networks for the neoliberal urban agenda"
Helga Leitner, University of Minnesota
Eric Sheppard, University of Minnestota

Saturday September 8

9:30Coffee

10:00-11:45SESSION FOUR:  Neoliberalism and the city in North America

The Liberal Imagination and Urban Development in the U.S.
Jason Hackworth, Florida State University

 
Retro-Urbanism:
Reliving the Dreams of 1980s Neoliberalism in Toronto, Canada
Roger Keil, York University, Toronto

11:45-1:15Lunch

1:15-3:00SESSION FIVE
New urban geographies (i):  neoliberalism as an urban strategy

New Globalism, New Urbanism: Gentrification as Global Urban Strategy
Neil Smith, CUNY Graduate Center

Rationalizing Obsolescence: The Role of the Entrepreneurial State
Rachel Weber, University of Illinois at Chicago

3:00-3:30Coffee Break

3:30-5:15SESSION SIX
New urban geographies (ii):  injustice, punishment, vulnerability

Spatializing injustice in the late entrepreneurial city:
Unraveling the contours of Britain's revanchist urbanism
Gordon MacLeod, University of Durham

The Punishing City: The Metropolis as Incubator of Neoliberal Penality
Loïc Wacquant
University of California, Berkeley
Centre de sociologie européenne du Collège de France