If neoliberalism is everything, maybe it is nothing

IF 3.4 2区经济学 Q1 REGIONAL & URBAN PLANNING

Planning Theory Pub Date : 2020-10-04 DOI:10.1177/1473095220956706

E. Buitelaar

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The starting point of this comment is Juliana M. Zanotto’s (2020) recent paper in Planning Theory: ‘The role of discourses in enacting neoliberal urbanism. Understanding the relationship between ideology and discourse in planning’. It is one of many in a line of papers in the field of planning theory, and related fields such as political geography and political economy (e.g. Peck, 2004), that take neoliberalism as their focus of study or attack. This comment is not so much, or not only, directed at Zanotto’s paper (which contains a very relevant and interesting conceptual discussion of discourse and ideology), as it is at the general treatment of the concept of neoliberalism in planning theory and practice. According to Zanotto, neoliberalism is a dominating force. In recent decades, it has been ‘shaping planning practice and the production of space’ (p. 105). In a review article in Progress in Planning, Tore Sager (2011) identifies as many as fourteen different planning-related policies with a neoliberal rationale: city marketing, urban development by attracting the ‘creative class’, economic development incentives, competitive bidding, public-private partnerships (PPPs), private involvement in financing and operating transport infrastructure, private sector involvement in procuring water, business-friendly zones and flexible zoning, property-led urban regeneration, privatisation of public space and sales-boosting exclusion, liberalisation of housing markets, gentrification, privately owned and secured neighbourhoods, and quangos organising market-oriented urban development. Zanotto goes further by saying that neoliberalism is not only a set of policies but an ideology, a belief system, that shapes ways of thinking and acting. No-one I know calls himor herself (a) neoliberal, nor claims to be following a philosophy or ideology of neoliberalism. However, people and things (e.g. policies) may be, and are, qualified as being or doing such by others. And those who receive this

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如果新自由主义就是一切，也许它什么都不是

这一评论的出发点是Juliana M.Zanotto（2020）最近在《规划理论》上发表的论文：“话语在实施新自由主义城市主义中的作用”。理解规划中意识形态与话语的关系。它是规划理论领域以及政治地理学和政治经济学等相关领域（如Peck，2004）中许多将新自由主义作为研究或攻击重点的论文之一。这篇评论与其说是，或者说不仅仅是针对扎诺托的论文（其中包含了一篇关于话语和意识形态的非常相关和有趣的概念讨论），不如说是针对规划理论和实践中对新自由主义概念的普遍处理。扎诺托认为，新自由主义是一股主导力量。近几十年来，它一直在“塑造规划实践和空间生产”（第105页）。在《规划进展》的一篇评论文章中，Tore Sager（2011）以新自由主义的理论基础确定了多达14种不同的规划相关政策：城市营销、吸引“创意阶层”的城市发展、经济发展激励、竞争性招标、公私伙伴关系、私人参与融资和运营交通基础设施，私营部门参与采购水源、商业友好区和灵活分区、房地产主导的城市重建、公共空间私有化和促进销售的排斥、住房市场自由化、绅士化、私人拥有和有保障的社区，以及半官方组织以市场为导向的城市发展。扎诺托更进一步地说，新自由主义不仅是一套政策，而且是一种意识形态，一种信仰体系，它塑造了思维和行动方式。我认识的人都不称自己为新自由主义者，也不声称自己遵循新自由主义的哲学或意识形态。然而，人和事（如政策）可能是，也现在是，有资格成为或被他人这样做。那些收到这个的人

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