In this book review, Karina Villacura introduces ‘Urban design under neoliberalism: Theorising from Santiago’ by Francisco Vergara-Perucich. This deepens in the practice of urban designers exploring how it has been shaped and dominated profit chasing. It proposes study neoliberalism based on a Marxist approach, allowing for reflection ethical, theoretical practical elements involved neoliberal ...

Introduction This paper sets out some preliminary findings which will form part of my PhD thesis on the broad topic of the impact of neoliberalism on access to justice. I am conducting empirical research in order to identify and examine trends in summary justice which appear to have been influenced by neoliberal political ideology, and consider how those trends may have affected the ability of ...

The rise of government by indicators, by figures may reveal a new wave of rationalization organized by the state in the classic Weberian sense. Contemporary forms of government are marked by the rise of indicators, measures and new metrics to compare, certify, codify and evaluate. In many countries, performance measurement has become one of the symbols of the transformation of governance. The p...

By outlining the political context that shaped the development of AIDS policy in South Africa and highlighting the deeply political aspects of the AIDS crisis, this paper shows why the South African government has not effectively responded to the spread of AIDS. It questions conventional factors, such as wealth, bureaucratic capacity, regime type, and political leadership as explanations for ef...

This essay examines the Swedish Freedom Front, created in 1989 by libertarians from editorial committee of Nyliberalen magazine. It argues that its emphasis on cultural, sexual, religious and political freedoms, libertarianism contained a different ideological repertoire neoliberalism. compares construction canon translated neoconservative neoliberal texts with popular vernacular register youth...

George Monbiot is the author of online publication “Neoliberalism - ideology at root all our problems”. He a British well-known for his political and environmental activism. In addition, he founded The Land Ours, movement in United Kingdom that advocates right to access countryside its resources. journal discusses neoliberalism’s anonymous characteristics, such as how it attempts reshape human ...

In approximately the last four decades, neoliberalism has reigned as structure of Western economies, chiefly United States. However, neoliberal capitalism and an environment synonymous with deregulation, “free” markets, limited government intervention in economic matters repeatedly led to crises crashes history. The Scourge Neoliberalism examines actions past presidential administrations since ...

This paper assesses the degree to which conceptualizations of neoliberal governance and advanced liberal governmentality can throw light on contemporary transformations in the practices and politics of consumption. It detours through theories of governmentality, stories about consumption and shopping, and different variations on what we can learn from Foucault. We explore the degree to which as...

This article initially discusses the moment of historical emergence neoliberalism in Brazil, recognizing dispersed and disarticulated elements during Military Dictatorship that only gained strategic coherence as a whole, constituting device governmentality, 1990s. From then on, three rounds neoliberalization occurred: 1) integration to global commercial financial markets managerial reform enter...