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Co-Constituting Neoliberalism: Faith-Based Organisations, Co-Option, and Resistance in the UK

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  • Andrew Williams
  • Paul Cloke
  • Samuel Thomas

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The increasing prominence of faith-based organisations (FBOs) in providing welfare in the UK has typically been regarded as a by-product of neoliberalism, as the gaps left by shrinking public service provision and the contracting out of service delivery have been filled by these and other Third Sector organisations. In this way, FBOs have been represented as merely being co-opted as inexpensive resource providers into the wider governmentalities of neoliberal politics. In this paper we critically question how the concept of neoliberalism has been put to work in accounts of voluntary sector cooption, and argue instead for a recognition of different manifestations of secularism and religion, and their connections to changing political—economic and social contexts. Using the illustration of one particular FBO in the UK, we trace how neoliberalism can be co-constituted through the involvement of FBOs, which can offer various pathways of resistance in and through the pursuit of alternative philosophies of care and political activism.

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  • Andrew Williams & Paul Cloke & Samuel Thomas, 2012. "Co-Constituting Neoliberalism: Faith-Based Organisations, Co-Option, and Resistance in the UK," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 44(6), pages 1479-1501, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:44:y:2012:i:6:p:1479-1501
    DOI: 10.1068/a44507
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    2. Abdul Raoof, 2019. "State, religion and society: Changing roles of faith-based organisations in Kerala," Working Papers 458, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore.
    3. Jennie Middleton & Richard Yarwood, 2015. "‘Christians, out here?’ Encountering Street-Pastors in the post-secular spaces of the UK’s night-time economy," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 52(3), pages 501-516, February.
    4. Andrew Williams & Paul Cloke & Jon May & Mark Goodwin, 2016. "Contested space: The contradictory political dynamics of food banking in the UK," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 48(11), pages 2291-2316, November.
    5. Alexandre de Pádua Carrieri & Dimitris Papadopoulos & Edson Antunes Quaresma Júnior & Alfredo Rodrigues Leite da Silva, 2021. "The ontology of resistance: Power, tactics and making do in the Vila Rubim market," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 58(8), pages 1615-1633, June.

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