© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 V. Berdayes, J. W. Murphy (eds.), Neoliberalism, Economic Radicalism, and the Normalization of Violence, International Perspectives on Social Policy, Administration, and Practice, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-25169-1_5 C. M. Bingham () · E. Kramer Department of Communication, University of Oklahoma, Burton Hall, 610 Elm Avenue, Norman, OK 73019, US...

Neoliberalism presents itself as a doctrine based on the inexorable truths of modern economics. However, despite its scientific trappings, modern economics is not a scientific discipline but the rigorous elaboration of a very specific social theory, which has become so deeply embedded in western thought as to have established itself as no more than common sense, despite the fact that its fundam...

Global health and neoliberalism are becoming increasingly intertwined as organizations utilize markets and profit motives to solve the traditional problems of poverty and population health. I use field work conducted over 14 months in a global health technology company to explore how the promise of neoliberalism re-envisions humanitarian efforts. In this company's vaccine refrigerator project, ...

— The long-standing disagreement between the international community and African leaders over an appropriate development strategy has been settled by the World Bank’s Comprehensive Development Framework (CDF) and African leaders’ New Partnership for Africas Development (NEPAD). Both documents support neoliberalism and see increased global integration as the key to Africa’s development. This pap...

The Politics of Free Markets (Prasad 2006) is a major contribution to political sociology. It addresses a central mystery in the field: why did the rich democracies suddenly embrace neoliberal policies in the last decades of the twentieth century—cutting taxes, abandoning welfare commitments, and reducing the state’s control over industry? And it does not pin the blame for neoliberal policies o...

This essay argues that neoliberalism has strengthened the sustainability of democracy in Latin America but limited its quality. Drastic market reform seems to have abetted the survival of competitive civilian rule through its external and internal repercussions. By opening up Latin American countries to the world economy, neoliberalism has exposed them to more of the international pressures for...

Populism is present in the current political scenario a modern way associated with neoliberalism. The objective of this work to associate subjective impacts produced by neoliberal policies on individual, mainly feeling competition and vision as source profit and, no longer exchange, rise right-wing populism last decade response crises capitalist system itself, largely due inefficiency left offe...

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...

Scholars in a broad range of disciplines are rethinking race and ethnicity in conjunction with genre, nationalism, place, cosmopolitanism, the shift towards neoliberalism since 1985, and intellectual property. In this paper I use a comparative perspective to think about the typical representations of Brazilian music and jazz as emerging from tri-ethnic and bi-ethnic heritages. I consider the as...

Neoliberalism, or faith in the capacity of markets to solve social and economic problems, is a key element of the prevailing public policy orthodoxy in G20 countries. Throughout the 1980s, key proponents of the Neoliberal message such as UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and American President Ronald Regan spoke optimistically about the philosophy’s inevitability and its benefits. During that...