Domesticating Neo-Liberalism: Spaces of Economic Practice and Social Reproduction in Post-Socialist Cities

“Thanks to its nuanced and multi-layered take on the geographical dimensions of employment, home, land and food provision in late capitalism, this monograph will become essential reading for scholars in the domains of post-socialist area studies, geography, economics, anthropology and sociology, in addition to social, urban and economic development policy practitioners.”  (Royal Geographical Society, 2012)

"This book makes a valuable contribution to the theorization of neoliberalization by extending it to the realm of the everyday household economy. It is grounded in rich empirical research in working class neighbourhoods in Bratislava and Krakow and argues that households mitigate and tolerate the pernicious social costs of neoliberal reform to achieve social reproduction." (Yahoo Finance, 2 November 2010)

‘This richly comparative analysis of the neo-liberalization of everyday life in East Central Europe also sheds new light on the everyday lives of neo-liberalism. A marvellous book, it reveals how daily practices of coping, caring and consuming, productions and reproduction, have been bound into processes of “market transition”, proliferating alternative economies even in this no-alternative age.’
—Jamie Peck, University of British Columbia

‘This book makes a valuable contribution to the theorization of neo-liberalization by extending it to the realm of the everyday household economy. It is grounded in rich empirical research in working class neighbourhoods in Bratislava and Kraków and argues that households mitigate and tolerate the pernicious social costs of neo-liberal reform to achieve social reproduction.’
—Adam Swain, University of Nottingham