EXPO 2015 as a Laboratory for Neoliberalization. Great Exhibitions, Urban Value Dispossession and New Labor Relations

<span class="abs_content">Great Exhibitions provide analytical lenses whereby capitalist development can be read from material as well as intangible perspectives. Thus, the paper approaches Milan EXPO 2015 through the grid of intelligibility provided by the concept of neoliberalism/n...

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Autores principales:	Emanuele Leonardi, Michelangelo Secchi
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Publicado:	Coordinamento SIBA 2016
Materias:	human capital neoliberalism/neoliberalization territorial dispossession unpaid labor Political science (General) JA1-92
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:144d1822a4df4d04b6bb68ceb3ad92242021-11-21T15:11:39ZEXPO 2015 as a Laboratory for Neoliberalization. Great Exhibitions, Urban Value Dispossession and New Labor Relations1972-76232035-660910.1285/i20356609v9i2p567https://doaj.org/article/144d1822a4df4d04b6bb68ceb3ad92242016-09-01T00:00:00Zhttp://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/paco/article/view/16317https://doaj.org/toc/1972-7623https://doaj.org/toc/2035-6609<span class="abs_content">Great Exhibitions provide analytical lenses whereby capitalist development can be read from material as well as intangible perspectives. Thus, the paper approaches Milan EXPO 2015 through the grid of intelligibility provided by the concept of neoliberalism/neoliberalization, namely as a regulatory experi-ment. EXPO 2015 is first situated against the background of a growing body of literature which interprets mega-events as catalysts of territorial dispossession. Starting from the critical urban theory premise that neoliberalization is necessarily a spatial project, the features of urban space production set in motion by the World Fair are analyzed by paying particular attention to the ways in which social movements framed such transformations and eventually mobilized in reaction to them. Secondly, EXPO 2015 functioned as a laboratory for the implementation of unprecedented labor relations. In particular, the widespread re-course to voluntary or unpaid workforces is in connection with the shift from wage to human capital as the pillar of social mediation between productive subjects</span><br />Emanuele LeonardiMichelangelo SecchiCoordinamento SIBAarticlehuman capitalneoliberalism/neoliberalizationterritorial dispossessionunpaid laborPolitical science (General)JA1-92ENPartecipazione e Conflitto, Vol 9, Iss 2, Pp 567-595 (2016)
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spellingShingle	human capital neoliberalism/neoliberalization territorial dispossession unpaid labor Political science (General) JA1-92 Emanuele Leonardi Michelangelo Secchi EXPO 2015 as a Laboratory for Neoliberalization. Great Exhibitions, Urban Value Dispossession and New Labor Relations
description	<span class="abs_content">Great Exhibitions provide analytical lenses whereby capitalist development can be read from material as well as intangible perspectives. Thus, the paper approaches Milan EXPO 2015 through the grid of intelligibility provided by the concept of neoliberalism/neoliberalization, namely as a regulatory experi-ment. EXPO 2015 is first situated against the background of a growing body of literature which interprets mega-events as catalysts of territorial dispossession. Starting from the critical urban theory premise that neoliberalization is necessarily a spatial project, the features of urban space production set in motion by the World Fair are analyzed by paying particular attention to the ways in which social movements framed such transformations and eventually mobilized in reaction to them. Secondly, EXPO 2015 functioned as a laboratory for the implementation of unprecedented labor relations. In particular, the widespread re-course to voluntary or unpaid workforces is in connection with the shift from wage to human capital as the pillar of social mediation between productive subjects</span><br />
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title	EXPO 2015 as a Laboratory for Neoliberalization. Great Exhibitions, Urban Value Dispossession and New Labor Relations
title_short	EXPO 2015 as a Laboratory for Neoliberalization. Great Exhibitions, Urban Value Dispossession and New Labor Relations
title_full	EXPO 2015 as a Laboratory for Neoliberalization. Great Exhibitions, Urban Value Dispossession and New Labor Relations
title_fullStr	EXPO 2015 as a Laboratory for Neoliberalization. Great Exhibitions, Urban Value Dispossession and New Labor Relations
title_full_unstemmed	EXPO 2015 as a Laboratory for Neoliberalization. Great Exhibitions, Urban Value Dispossession and New Labor Relations
title_sort	expo 2015 as a laboratory for neoliberalization. great exhibitions, urban value dispossession and new labor relations
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EXPO 2015 as a Laboratory for Neoliberalization. Great Exhibitions, Urban Value Dispossession and New Labor Relations

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