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In this concluding chapter, I argue that the post-Fordist urban is speculative in its focus on future populations. Moreover, I argue that in imagining the yet-to-come, in speculation on the population, (1) women, mothers, mothering, families and children play an important role and (2) gender and femininities are strategic instruments. This chapter also considers the class-gender intersection and the way class is reconfigured in the post-Fordist urban in which Fordist affects nonetheless have an afterlife.
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“Rotterdam heeft haast. De stad vecht zich dood om op iets te lijken wat er nog niet is.” Wilfried de Jong. De Jong (2012) said this in a speech on the occasion of the departure of the national newspaper NRC Handelsblad from Rotterdam. The NRC offices moved to Amsterdam in 2012.
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van den Berg, M. (2017). Conclusions: The City as a Potent Muscleman in Pink Stilettos. In: Gender in the Post-Fordist Urban. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52533-4_6
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