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2. How Finance Penetrates its Other: A Cautionary Tale on the Financialization of a Dutch University.
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Engelen, Ewald, Fernandez, Rodrigo, and Hendrikse, Reijer
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FINANCIALIZATION ,NEOLIBERALISM ,HIGHER education ,HIGHER education finance ,FINANCE ,REAL property ,ECONOMIC conditions in the Netherlands, 1945- - Abstract
If any organization ought to be immune to the forces of financialization, it is a publicly funded university in corporatist Europe. Shielded from the intrusion by financial metrics, values and professionals through a strong historically rooted tradition of self-management by powerful professional guilds, continental universities should largely have avoided the marketization and managerialization of Anglophone universities. Not so, this case study of a Dutch public university suggests. From 1995 onwards, a shift in real estate management-devolving responsibilities from the Dutch state to universities-served as a Trojan horse for financialization, triggering changes in organizational culture and a power shift from teaching and research professionals to accountants, real-estate developers, financiers and their ilk. This case suggests that the power of finance is such that no societal domain is immune. The paper ends with a call for more non-metropolitan case studies of financialization and argues that the only hope for salvation is a more self-conscious defense of traditional academic values by the guardians of higher learning themselves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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3. From Politicization to Policing: The Rise and Decline of New Social Movements in Amsterdam and Paris.
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Uitermark, Justus and Nicholls, Walter
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SOCIAL movements ,ACTIVISM ,HISTORY of the police ,CITIES & politics ,HISTORY ,SOCIAL history - Abstract
This paper analyzes the rise and decline of social movements in Amsterdam and Paris, focusing in particular on the organizations of left-wing immigrant workers. These organizations performed crucial roles for new social movements in the 1970s and 1980s but were isolated and coopted in the 1990s and early 2000s. To explain why this is so, we engage in a dialogue with Jacques Rancière and develop an understanding of cities as strategic sites for both politicization and policing. Cities serve as sites of politicization because they are incubators of the relational conduits that enable activists from different sectors to engage with one another's struggles and look beyond narrow temporal and spatial horizons. However, cities also serve as sites of policing because authorities constantly attempt to reconfigure governmental arrangements in such a way that civil society serves as an extension of the government and comes to fulfill an instrumental role in the development and implementation of policy. Just as politicizing implies the widening of temporal and spatial horizons, policing implies the narrowing of such horizons. The analysis shows the social movements of the 1960s lost steam in two of the major hubs of the new left and reveals some of the more universal mechanisms through which cities generate or quell dissent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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4. The Revanchist Renewal of Yesterday's City of Tomorrow.
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Aalbers, Manuel B.
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URBAN renewal ,BLACK people ,GENTRIFICATION ,MIDDLE class ,URBAN planning - Abstract
Although planned as the 'City of Tomorrow', the Bijlmer district in Amsterdam quickly became the quintessential symbol of urban decline. Today, even with half of the planned renewal of the Bijlmer completed, the alleged success of this urban revitalisation programme is questionable. Parts of the black middle class did not move out and some are even returning to the Bijlmer; the combination is producing a type of 'black gentrification', which forces the 'undesirables' like drug users, homeless people and undocumented immigrants to leave. This revanchist renewal not only benefits the middle and lower-class population of the district, but it also serves the interests of private developers. European revanchism makes the city safe for corporate investment and aims to restore social order as well as stimulating the development of a strong middle class. This paper demonstrates how hard revanchist policies are demanded not only by private developers but also by the middle and lower classes, and they exist alongside soft 'caring' policies, even for the 'undesirables'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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5. State Responses and Migrant Experiences with Human Smuggling: A Reality Check.
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Liempt, Ilse and Sersli, Stephanie
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HUMAN smuggling ,BORDER security ,IMMIGRATION policy ,IMMIGRANTS ,GOVERNMENT policy on political refugees ,CRIME ,HISTORY ,GOVERNMENT policy - Abstract
Using Bigo's (2002) notion of 'the governmentality of unease' this article reveals a shift in popular discourse around human smuggling in Western Europe and Canada since the 1990s towards increasing criminalization. To analyze this process of criminalization we have identified three recurring elements: boat arrivals; high fees and 'bogus' asylum seekers; and the involvement of organized crime. The finding that smugglers today are generally perceived as 'evil criminals' who undermine states' ability to manage migration and who need to be punished is contrasted with data derived from interviews with smuggled migrants in the Netherlands and Canada that offer an alternative, more socially embedded understanding of human smuggling. We posit that this reality check and a more nuanced understanding of human smuggling are needed for the protection of international migrants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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