Splitting a northern account of New Zealand's neoliberalism |
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| Authors: | Nicolas Lewis |
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| Institution: | School of Environment, The University of Auckland, , Auckland, New Zealand |
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| Abstract: | This review responds to Richard Peet's ‘policy regimes’ account of New Zealand's neoliberal experiment published in this volume of the New Zealand Geographer. It welcomes Peet's intervention, especially its comparative approach and its political economy focus, but suggests further insight may have been gained from closer engagement with the work of New Zealand geographers. The review argues that Peet misses opportunities to learn from the New Zealand case. The review subjects a ‘northern’ account of southern experience to a critique by ‘splitting’, a characteristically southern approach to analysing social change from the Antipodes that pays close attention to the situatedness of knowledge production. |
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| Keywords: | Antipodean economic geography political projects post‐structuralist political economy southern theory |
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