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Dissolving the Public Realm? The Logics and Limits of Neo-liberalism
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This paper explores the changing fortunes of the public realm during the last two decades. It poses the problem of how we think about globalisation and neo-liberalism as forces driving these changes. It then examines how different aspects of the public realm – understood as public interest, as public services and as a collective identity – have been subjected to processes of dissolution. Different processes have combined in this dissolution – in particular, attempts to privatise and marketise public services have been interleaved with attempts to de-politicise the public realm. Tracing these processes reveals that they have not been wholly successful – encountering resistances, refusals and negotiations that mean the outcomes (so far) do not match the world imagined in neo-liberal fantasies.
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- Authors
- CLARKE, J.
- Venue
- Journal of Social Policy
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2004-01
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 27-48
- ISSN
- 0047-2794 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-7823
- OpenAlex
- W2160203012
- Cited by
- 470
- References
- 31
- FWCI
- 113.69
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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