Abstract This paper offers a political economy interpretation of the covid -19 pandemic, framed around its relationship to dynamics, contradictions and limitations global neoliberalism. It argues that pandemic emerged in context growing inequalities deepening crises neoliberal economies their systems, is likely reinforce exclusionary tendencies current phase capitalism, with detrimental implica...

This article presents a new account of the relationship between Michel Foucault’s work and neoliberalism, aiming to show that is significantly more complicated than either critics or defenders have appreciated in recent controversy. On one hand, I argue salutary response some Gary Becker’s ideas lecture course from 1979 should be read together with argument Discipline Punish. By means this cont...

This article provides an introduction to the special issue on post-neoliberalism. It does so by considering challenges neoliberal order that have come, post-financial crisis, from political right. looks closely at relation of neoliberalism conservatism, one hand, and libertarianism, other, in address threat posed paleoconservatism, neoreactionary politics, ordonationalism, libertarian paternali...

this qualitative study analyzes the reasons of college students for learning english as a foreign language (efl) in costa rica and the reasons of high school students for learning german as a foreign language (gfl) in the us. it asks to what extent the learners’ reasons align with or deviate from neoliberal discourses that commodify foreign languages. the analysis of 27 interviews in a us high ...

the world was different when the ottawa charter for health promotion was released 30 years ago. concerns over the environment and what we now call the ‘social determinants of health’ were prominent in 1986. but the acceleration of ecological crises and economic inequalities since then, in a more complex and multi-polar world, pose dramatically new challenges for those committed to the original ...

The recent flurry of writing on Russian politics, nationalism and Alexander Dugin shows the contemptible inability of western savants to apprehend any idea beyond the cliche's of stagnant neoliberalism. Worse, “Russia specialists” in academia are now tripping over themselves trying to “analyze” Dugin and the Eurasianist idea. Bereft of the vocabulary to understand the concept, they merely apply...