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Urban transformation in Istanbul and Budapest: Neoliberal governmentality in the EU's semi-periphery and its limits

Emel Akçalı, Umut Korkut, Emel Akcali Orcid Logo

Political Geography, Volume: 46, Pages: 76 - 88

Swansea University Author: Emel Akcali Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1016/j.polgeo.2014.12.004

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By discussing the variety and variability of urban neoliberal governmentality and its limits in the semiperipheryof the advanced capitalist world, the article aims to explore the embeddedness of neoliberalismat the dawn of the new millennium. Cities that are increasingly becoming parts of the global...

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Published in: Political Geography
ISSN: 09626298
Published: 2015
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description By discussing the variety and variability of urban neoliberal governmentality and its limits in the semiperipheryof the advanced capitalist world, the article aims to explore the embeddedness of neoliberalismat the dawn of the new millennium. Cities that are increasingly becoming parts of the globaleconomy, despite being on the periphery of advanced capitalism, host a myriad of diverse forms ofneoliberal governmentality in terms of spatial change. Although responding with enthusiasm to theincreasing mobility of capital and the internationalization of investments through gentrification plans,the current transformative efforts of Istanbul and Budapest under two conservative governments indicate,for instance, the re-invention of authoritarianism so that these cities serve the purposes of theirnational leaders. This development signals a hybrid form of governmentality that combines neoliberalismwith illiberal logics and manifests similar processes in different locations despite disparities inscale, local needs and characteristics. The article further argues that since such urban transformationstake place within the neo-conservative leaders' battles to acquire cultural and social capital, they createpotential to make both metropolises the new rebel cities of Europe, albeit with divergent levels ofresistance.
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