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Studies of urban neoliberalism have been surprisingly inattentive
to gender. Brenda Parker begins to remedy this by looking at the
effect of new urbanism, "creative class," and welfare reform
discourses on women in Milwaukee, a traditionally progressive city
with a strong history of political organizing. Through a feminist
partial political economy of place (FPEP) approach, Parker conducts
an intersectional analysis of urban politics that simultaneously
pays attention to a number of power relations. She argues that in
the 1990s and 2000s, the city's business-friendly agenda-although
couched in uplifting rhetoric-strengthened existing hierarchies not
only in class and race but also in gender. Taking on municipal
elites' adoption of Richard Florida's "creative class" thesis, for
example, Parker looks at the group Young Professionals of
Milwaukee, exposing the way that a "creative careers" focus
advances fundamentally masculine values and interests. She
concludes with a case study that shows how gender and race mattered
in the design, enactment, and contestation of an uneven urban
redevelopment project. At once a case study of the city and a
theorization of urban neoliberalism, Masculinities and Markets
highlights how urban politics and discourses in U.S cities have
changed over the years.
Now available in paperback, The Persians tells the story of this
cultured ancient civilization, tracing the unique features of
Persian life as well as their influence down the centuries. The
book describes the difficulties early Persians encountered and how
these contributed to their unique character and the establishment
of the Achaemenid Empire. It recounts the keenly fought conflicts
with the Greeks for mastery of the Eastern Mediterranean, a contest
which was to dominate the geopolitics of the ancient world, and it
paints a vivid picture of the many great Persian cities and their
spectacular achievements: an efficient road system that linked an
empire together; respect for their subject peoples; and advances in
irrigation techniques which created a 'paradise' envied by their
neighbours.
Studies of urban neoliberalism have been surprisingly inattentive
to gender. Brenda Parker begins to remedy this by looking at the
effect of new urbanism, "creative class," and welfare reform
discourses on women in Milwaukee, a traditionally progressive city
with a strong history of political organizing. Through a feminist
partial political economy of place (FPEP) approach, Parker conducts
an intersectional analysis of urban politics that simultaneously
pays attention to a number of power relations. She argues that in
the 1990s and 2000s, the city's business-friendly agenda-although
couched in uplifting rhetoric-strengthened existing hierarchies not
only in class and race but also in gender. Taking on municipal
elites' adoption of Richard Florida's "creative class" thesis, for
example, Parker looks at the group Young Professionals of
Milwaukee, exposing the way that a "creative careers" focus
advances fundamentally masculine values and interests. She
concludes with a case study that shows how gender and race mattered
in the design, enactment, and contestation of an uneven urban
redevelopment project. At once a case study of the city and a
theorization of urban neoliberalism, Masculinities and Markets
highlights how urban politics and discourses in U.S cities have
changed over the years.
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