%0 Journal Article
%T (Im)mobile and (Un)successful? A policy mobilities approach to New Orleans¡¯s residential security taxing districts
%A Aaron Malone
%J Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space
%@ 2399-6552
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/2399654418779822
%X Policy mobilities scholars critically analyze the processes of assemblage, mobilization, and mutation that shape policy circuits, but have been critiqued for an over-emphasis on successful and mobile cases. This paper adds to a growing effort to diversify the empirical scope of the field through an example that blurs the boundaries of mobility/immobility and success/failure. I examine residential security taxing districts, which are derived from the common business improvement district model but which in their specifics are unique to New Orleans. Security districts are quasi-public entities established within elite urban enclaves to collect taxes to fund neighborhood security patrols. First, I analyze the model¡¯s rapid spread among the city¡¯s neighborhoods, demonstrating the relevance of the policy mobilities framework in a case of intra-urban mobilization. Second, I explore why the model has not spread to other cities, particularly given New Orleans¡¯s centrality as a site for neoliberal policy experimentation in the post-Katrina era. These post-disaster interventions applied preexisting policy prescriptions and were driven by outside experts, while the city¡¯s own neoliberal experiments were ignored. Troubling the association of mobility and success, I conclude that this immobility should not be considered failure so much as anonymity
%K Policy mobilities
%K immobility
%K anonymity
%K security districts
%K New Orleans
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2399654418779822