Authoritarian Neoliberalism: Periodization and Critique

Periodization

BACKGROUND Clinicians are constantly faced with the challenge of designing training programs for injured and noninjured athletes that maximize healing and optimize performance. Periodization is a concept of systematic progression-that is, resistance training programs that follow predictable patterns of change in training variables. The strength training literature is abundant with studies compa...

The Paradox of Neoliberalism: A Critique of the Washington Consensus in the Age of Globalization

Periodization Strategies

Many strength and conditioning practitioners have embraced periodization theory over the last two decades. Different interpretations are now commonly applied in practice and discussed in professional publications or meetings. Yet despite its popularity, some people still seem to struggle with the concept. Periodization originated in Eastern Europe, and therefore is perceived by many in the West...

Competing Capitalisms and Neoliberalism :

This paper explores the impact of neoliberalism on the ‘Asia-Pacific’ region generally and on Japan and China in particular. It argues that while the impact of neoliberal ideas is having an important long-term impact on the countries of East Asia, there remain important difference in patterns of political practice and economic organisation which continue to distinguish the region. Indeed, there...

Desiring Neoliberalism

The paper is based on the premise that neoliberalism is a political rationality that is not only anti-social but also requires an anti-democratic and violent form of statehood. However, neoliberalism is not solely based on coercion and force, but paradoxically also on consensus. This consensus is not least organized through its flexibilized and pluralized sexual politics. By focussing on sexual...