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作者

Niamh Gaynor

来源

JOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS,Vol.42,Issue1,P.75-90

语言

英文

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作者单位

Dublin City University

摘要

Often hailed as “the poster child of Europe” for its discipline and compliance in managing austerity despite the severity of the cuts meted on its population, Dublin presents an interesting case in austerity governance. This article focuses on the specific mechanisms whereby such compliance and public acquiescence have been achieved. Drawing on field research conducted from 2015 to 2017, it identifies three key practices of austerity governance: a collectivization of blame and shame; a cutting, shaping, and disciplining of civil society; and a reconstruction of the citizen-subject. It then goes on to uncover a diverse range of public responses to these practices that, oscillating between resistance and resilience, are playing a key role in rebuilding solidarity and community across neighborhoods throughout the city. The findings presented here respond to recent calls for a re-insertion of the political into contemporary urban research and highlight the importance of dispersed networks of resistance and resilience in contemporary urban political struggle and transformation.Additional informationAuthor informationNiamh GaynorNiamh Gaynor is Associate Professor in the School of Law and Government in Dublin City University Ireland. She is the author of Transforming Participation? The Politics of Development in Malawi and Ireland (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and has published in a wide range of journals, including Politics and Society, Community Development Journal, Irish Political Studies, Irish Journal of Sociology, Journal of International Development, Globalizations, Development Policy Review, and Review of African Political Economy.FundingThe research from which this publication derives is funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (Ref. ES/L012898/1), “Collaborative Governance Under Austerity: An Eight-Case Comparative Study.”AcknowledgmentsThe Principal Investigator is Professor Jonathan Davies of DeMontford University. See http://www.dmu.ac.uk/ESRCAusterity. Niamh acknowledges research assistance at different stages of the project from Dr. Eamonn McConnon, Nessa Ní Chasaide, Dr. Valesca Lima, and Morina O’Neill.