Spaces of Neoliberal Experimentation: Soft Spaces, Postpolitics, and Neoliberal Governmentality

Graham Haughton, Phil Allmendinger and Stijn Oosterlynck
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Graham Haughton: School of Environment and Development, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, England
Phil Allmendinger: Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, 19 Silver Street, Cambridge CB3 9EP, England
Stijn Oosterlynck: Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City, Department of Sociology, Antwerp University, Belgium

Environment and Planning A, 2013, vol. 45, issue 1, 217-234

Abstract: This paper examines the proliferation of soft spaces of governance, focusing on planning. We move beyond more functional explanations to explore the politics of soft spaces, more specifically how soft space forms of governance operate as integral to processes of neoliberalisation, highlighting how such state forms facilitate neoliberalisation through their flexibility and variability. Recent state restructuring of the planning sector and emerging trends for soft spaces in England under the Coalition government proposals are discussed.

Keywords: soft spaces; neoliberal spatial governance; postpolitics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1068/a45121

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