ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the production of localities in neo-liberal modernity. The conjunction of democratisation and marketisation created localities in new forms of individual and environmental development. Localities were produced by myriad individual decision-makers with contrasting interests and purposes in a multi-scalar renegotiation of places of complex connectivities. The chapter begins with a brief comment about the discourse on local experience, followed by reference to the important structural features of democratisation and marketisation relevant to localities. Attention then turns to a discussion of the experience of localities, with particular cases illustrating the main lines of the practices and discourses of their production.
