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What's so new about New Municipalism?

Thompson, Matthew; (2021) What's so new about New Municipalism? Progress in Human Geography , 45 (2) pp. 317-342. 10.1177/0309132520909480. Green open access

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Abstract

New municipalism is a nascent global social movement aiming to democratically transform the local state and economy – but what, precisely, is so new about it? I situate new municipalism in its geographical, political-economic and historical contexts, by comparison with earlier waves of municipal socialism and international municipalism, arguing that it re-politicises traditions of transnationalism, based not on post-political policy mobilities but on urban solidarities in contesting neoliberal austerity urbanism and platform capitalism. This article identifies three new municipalisms – platform, autonomist, managed – whose characteristics, contradictions, interconnections and potentials are explored in terms of state-space restructuring, urban-capitalist crisis and cycles of contention.

Type: Article
Title: What's so new about New Municipalism?
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1177/0309132520909480
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309132520909480
Language: English
Additional information: © The Author(s) 2020. Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC 4.0) This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
Keywords: Social Sciences, Geography, community wealth building, local state transformation, municipal governance, platform capitalism, right to the city, urban policy mobility, urban social movements, NEO-LIBERALISM, URBAN, CITIES, COOPERATIVES, GOVERNMENT, POLITICS, POLICY, CITY
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Planning
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10195334
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