ELLEN BAREIS Professor at the Department for Welfare and Public Health at the University of Applied Sciences Ludwigshafen/Rhein, GermanyMANUELA BOJAD IJEV Assistant Professor at the Institute for European Ethnography at Humboldt University of Berlin, GermanyNEIL BRENNER Professor of Sociology and Metropolitan Studies at New York University, USACAROLYN CARTIER Professor of Geography at China Studies in the China Research Centre at the University of Technology, Sydney, AustraliaPASCAL DEBRUYNE PhD Candidate at the Department of Third World Studies at Ghent University, BelgiumSOPHIE DIDIER Geographer and Research Director of the Institut Français d'Afrique du Sud (IFAS), FranceBOB JESSOP Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University, UK and Co-Director of the Cultural Political Economy Research Centre, UKSTEPHAN LANZ Lecturer in Social Geography and Cultural Studies at Europa-Universität Viadrina at Frankfurt/Oder, Germany UTE LEHRER Associate Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Studies and member of the CITY Institute, York University, CanadaMARIANNE MORANGE Senior Lecturer in the Geography Department, University Paris 7 - Denis Diderot, FranceCHRISTOPHER PARKER Professor of Political and Social Science at Ghent University, BelgiumJAMIE PECK Canada Research Chair in Urban and Regional Political Economy, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, CanadaELISABETH PEYROUX Senior Researcher at National Centre forScientific Research, based at the University of Toulouse 2 (Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Studies, LISST-Cieu), FranceCHRIS PICKVANCE Professor of Urban Studies at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UKNGAI-LING SUM Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Lancaster University and Co-Director of the Cultural Political Economy Research Centre, UKNIK THEODORE Director of the Center for Urban Economic Development and Associate Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

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• Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors PART I: THEORETICAL DEBATES: COMPETING APPROACHES IN THE STUDY OF URBAN NEOLIBERALISM Introduction: Neoliberal Urbanism and its Contestations Crossing Theoretical Boundaries; M.Mayer & J.Künkel Towards Deep Neoliberalization?; N.Brenner, N.Theodore & J.Peck The Limits of Neoliberalism. Is the Concept of Neoliberalism Helpful in the Study of Urban Policy?; C.Pickvance Grounding Social Struggles in the Age of 'Empire'; E.Bareis & M.Bojadzijev Cultural Political Economy, Strategic Essentialism, and Neoliberalism; B.Jessop & N.Sum PART II: EMPIRICAL CASES Urban Development and the Creative Class in a Neoliberal Age: Two Case Studies in Toronto; U.Lehrer City Improvement Districts and 'Territorialized Neoliberalism' in South Africa (Johannesburg, Cape Town); S.Didier, M.Morange & E.Peyroux Neoliberalization at a Crossroads? Transcolonial Hong Kong; C.Cartier Reassembling the Political Life of Community. Naturalizing Neoliberalism in Amman; C.Parker & P.Debruyne Governing the Favela; S.Lanz 'These Dolls are an Attraction'. Othering and Normalizing Sex Work in a Neoliberal City; J.Künkel Conclusion: Implications of Urban Theory for Social Movements; M.Mayer & J.Künkel Index