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1. Spaces of neoliberal experimentation: soft spaces, postpolitics and neoliberal governmentality

Author

Stijn Oosterlynck, Phil Allmendinger, and Graham Haughton

Subjects
Restructuring, Economics, media_common.quotation_subject, Corporate governance, Geography, Planning and Development, Soft spaces, Postpolitics, Environmental Science (miscellaneous), Space (mathematics), Politics, Chemistry, Coalition government, soft spaces, neoliberal spatial governance, postpolitics, State (polity), Sociology, Neoliberal spatial governance, Political science, Political economy, Economic system, Biology, media_common, Governmentality
Abstract

This paper examines the proliferation of soft spaces of governance, focusing on planning. We move beyond more functional explanations to explore the politics of soft spaces, more specifically how soft space forms of governance operate as integral to processes of neoliberalisation, highlighting how such state forms facilitate neoliberalisation through their flexibility and variability. Recent state restructuring of the planning sector and emerging trends for soft spaces in England under the Coalition government proposals are discussed. Keywords: soft spaces, neoliberal spatial governance, postpolitics

Published
2013

2. When soft spaces harden : the EU strategy for the Baltic Sea Region

Author

Metzger, Jonathan, Schmitt, Peter, Metzger, Jonathan, and Schmitt, Peter

Abstract

This paper investigates the first ever so-called 'macroregional strategy' developed under the aegis of the European Commission: the European Union Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR). Through a drawing together of elements of actor-network theory and regionalization theory, it is argued that the adoption of the EUSBSR can be seen as a milestone within a wider process towards Baltic Sea regionalization, whereby the Baltic Sea region is increasingly 'solidified' through the positioning of the European Commission as a spokesperson for the interests of the region. It is further suggested that, if not seriously contested, the possible acceptance of the European Commission as a designated regional spokesperson might be a crucial step in a process whereby the soft space of the Baltic Sea Region may gradually become more formalized. Nonetheless, caution must be taken so as not to confuse degrees of formal institutional fixity with degrees of durability., QC 20111114. Updated from accepted to published 20120411

Published
2012
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