Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contesting urban futures: decentering neoliberalism / Helga Leitner ... [et al.] -- Conceptualizing neoliberalism, thinking Thatcherism / Jamie Peck and Adam Tickell -- Mexico's neoliberal transition: authoritarian shadows in an era of neoliberalism / Patricia Martin -- The places, people, and politics of partnership: after neoliberalism in Aotearoa New Zealand / Wendy Larner and Maria Butler -- Contesting the neoliberalization of urban governance / Margit Mayer -- Contesting the neoliberal city? Theories of neoliberalism and urban strategies of contention / William Sites -- Political polemics and local practices of community organizing and neoliberal politics in South Africa / Sophie Oldfield and Kristian Stokke -- Decommodifying electricity in postapartheid Johannesburg / Patrick Bond and Peter McInnes -- Spaces of resistance in Seattle and Cancun / Joel Wainwright -- Articulating neoliberalism: diverse economies and everyday life in postsocialist cities / Adrian Smith -- Modes of governance, modes of resistance: contesting neoliberalism in Calgary / Byron Miller -- Closed borders, open markets: immigrant day laborers' struggle for economic rights / Nik Theodore -- Space patrols--the new peace-keeping functions of nonprofits: contesting neoliberalism or the urban poor? / Volker Eick -- From possible urban worlds to the contested metropolis: urban research and activism in the age of neoliberalism / Ute Lehrer and Roger Keil -- Squaring up to neoliberalism / Helga Leitner, Jamie Peck, and Eric S. Sheppard.

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