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Neoliberalization and Its Geographic Limits: Comparative Reflections from Forest Peripheries in the Global North

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  • Roger Hayter
  • Trevor J. Barnes

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Recently, a number of economic geography studies have emphasized that when neoliberalism is grounded in particular places, it takes on hybrid forms, a result of local contingencies that are found at those sites. This article contributes to this literature by explicating the processes by which hybridization occurs by drawing on a comparative study of neoliberalism in three contemporary forest-based regions in the Global North: British Columbia, Canada; Tasmania, Australia; and the North Island, New Zealand. A key term for us is geographic limits, by which we mean regionally specific constellations (assemblages) of institutional and material forms that resist; hybridize; or, at junctures, even offset neoliberalism with alternative agendas. In turn, our idea of geographic limits is derived from our larger conceptual framework that integrates Anna Tsing’s (2005) concept of friction with the notion of remapping and a four-leg stakeholder model that consists of different, albeit overlapping, institutional agencies that represent the political, the industrial, the environmental, and the cultural. These institutions provide the animus for a remapping that variously implements, modifies, and occasionally counters neoliberalism.

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  • Roger Hayter & Trevor J. Barnes, 2012. "Neoliberalization and Its Geographic Limits: Comparative Reflections from Forest Peripheries in the Global North," Economic Geography, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 88(2), pages 197-221, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:recgxx:v:88:y:2012:i:2:p:197-221
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2011.01143.x
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    1. Maria Eugenia Giraudo & Jean Grugel, 2022. "Imaginaries of Soy and the Costs of Commodity‐led Development: Reflections from Argentina," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 53(4), pages 796-826, July.
    2. Bjørnar Sæther & Eivind Merok, 2019. "The Construction and Deconstruction of a Norwegian Forest Industrial Regime 1980-2017," PEGIS geo-disc-2019_04, Institute for Economic Geography and GIScience, Department of Socioeconomics, Vienna University of Economics and Business.
    3. Smith, Tonya & Bulkan, Janette, 2021. "A ‘New Relationship’? Reflections on British Columbia’s 2003 Forest Revitalization Plan from the perspective of the Li̓l̓wat First Nation," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 105(C).
    4. Jonathan S Davies & Ismael Blanco, 2017. "Austerity urbanism: Patterns of neo-liberalisation and resistance in six cities of Spain and the UK," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 49(7), pages 1517-1536, July.

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