New Future

Ryan Moore weighs the convulsions of our present neoliberalism against the rise of Thatcherism, by way of reference to Stuart Hall and his co-authors' classic text on Thatcherite ideology and hegemony, Policing the Crisis.

Urban researcher Andy Carr examines the encroaching corporate privatization of municipal governance. By the use of mechanisms like the Business Improvement District, private interests have anointed themselves with the powers of the state.