What's so new about New Municipalism?

Thompson, Matthew ORCID: 0000-0002-5691-4851 (2021) What's so new about New Municipalism? PROGRESS IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 45 (2). pp. 317-342.

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Abstract

<jats:p>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.</jats:p>

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	community wealth building, local state transformation, municipal governance, platform capitalism, right to the city, urban policy mobility, urban social movements
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	20 Jul 2020 08:03
Last Modified:	03 Oct 2023 01:21
DOI:	10.1177/0309132520909480
Open Access URL:	https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0309132520909480
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3093982