Tag: Neoliberal

Free Download J.D. Taylor, "Negative Capitalism: Cynicism in the Neoliberal Era"
English | 2013 | pages: 182 | ISBN: 1780992602 | EPUB | 1,8 mb
Negative Capitalism: Cynicism in the Neoliberal Era offers a new conceptual framework for understanding the current economic crisis. Through a ranging series of analyses and perspectives, it argues that cynicism has become culturally embedded in the UK and US as an effect of disempowerment by neoliberal capitalism. Yet despite the deprivation and collapse of key social infrastructure like representative democracy, welfare, workers’ rights and equal access to resources, there has so far been no collective, effective and sustained overthrow of capitalism. Why is this? The book’s central call is for new strategies that unravel this narcissistic cynicism, embracing social democracy, constitutional rights, mass bankruptcies and animate sabotage. Kafka, Foucault, Ballard and de Sade are clashed with the X-Factor, ruinporn, London, and the artwork of Laura Oldfield Ford. Negative Capitalism’s polemic is written to incite responses against the cynical malaise of the neoliberal era.

Free Download Serhan Ünal, "Neoliberal Transformation of Electricity: International Political Economy of the Turkish Case"
English | ISBN: 9819902819 | 2023 | 243 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book makes a structural analysis of the neoliberal restructuring in the global electricity industry. The book shows that the electricity liberalisation in different countries is just a reflection of the same structural trend in the global economy and avoids from both narrow country-specific and abstract global approaches by making a structural analysis completed by a case study. Thus, it aims reaching wider conclusions about how global changes in finance and ideology / knowledge structures influence domestic energy and economic policy preferences of developing countries. The book develops a taxonomy about organising principles around which the electricity industry has been structured historically and globally, and reveals drivers of change which influences the current energy transition in the electricity sector. Combining these aspects, the book uses financial and other economic data empirically, to shed light on the structural role of global transformation of the electricity markets on the domestic energy policy preferences of the developing countries. Thus, this work will be useful not only for academic purposes, but also for practitioners dealing with these issues.

Free Download Colombian Peasants in the Neoliberal Age: Between War Rentierism and Subsistence
by Nazih F Richani
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1438494122 | 336 Pages | True PDF | 3.66 MB

Free Download Nazih F. Richani, "Colombian Peasants in the Neoliberal Age: Between War Rentierism and Subsistence"
English | ISBN: 1438494122 | 2023 | 310 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Presents a timely discussion of the core problems faced by peasant communities under neo-liberal economics.

Free Download Adriano Cozzolino, "Neoliberal Transformations of the Italian State: Understanding the Roots of the Crises "
English | ISBN: 1786614731 | 2021 | 216 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 6 MB
‘The book is an exploration, on both theoretical and empirical grounds, into the nature and the transformation of the state in the neoliberal era. Nowadays, a widespread crisis of legitimation affects the institutions and authority of the state; similarly, and especially after the Great Crisis of 2008 to present, the European project is increasingly questioned by populist and neo-nationalist forces, which politically advance in the state and society, and promote further coercive-oriented reconfiguration of state powers and apparatus. The ‘nationalist international’, the ‘new populists’ and/or the ‘rise of new international fascism’ are questions on the verge of international scholarship and political debate. However, many of these studies often miss the specificity and critical importance of the study of the state and of state (institutional and ideological) powers; even more importantly, the phenomenon of populism/neo-authoritarianism is interpreted by the mainstream as a clear break with traditional centrist parties, with the result of neglecting the past authoritarian tendencies that accompany the entire history of neoliberalism.

Free Download The Neoliberal Republic : Corporate Lawyers, Statecraft, and the Making of Public-Private France
by Antoine Vauchez, Pierre France
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1501752545 | 204 Pages | True ePUB | 1.1 MB

Free Download Health and Illness in the Neoliberal Era in Europe
by Jonathan Gabe, Mario Cardano
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1839091207 | 221 Pages | True ePUB/PDF | 3.07 MB

Free Download Linnie Blake, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet, "Neoliberal gothic: International gothic in the neoliberal age"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1526113449, 1526139464 | PDF | pages: 241 | 3.5 mb
The explosion of interest in the gothic in recent years has coincided with a number of seismic political changes that have reshaped the world as we know it. Neoliberal Gothic explores that world, considering the ways in which the exponential increase in the cultural visibility of the gothic attests to the mode’s engagement with the most significant dynamics of our age. These include the triumph of free market economics, the revolution in information and communication technologies, the emergence of global biotechnologies, the increasing power of transnational corporations, the US-led ‘War on Terror’ and the global financial crisis of 2008.

Free Download Amrita Pande, "Birth controlled: Selective reproduction and neoliberal eugenics in South Africa and India "
English | ISBN: 1526160544 | 2022 | 408 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Birth controlled analyses the world of selective reproduction – the politics of who gets to legitimately reproduce the future – through a cross-cultural analysis of three modes of ‘controlling’ birth: contraception, reproductive violence and repro-genetic technologies. It argues that as fertility rates decline worldwide, the fervour to control fertility, and fertile bodies, does not dissipate; what evolves is the preferred mode of control. Although new technologies like those that assist conception or allow genetic selection may appear to be an antithesis of other violent versions of population control, this book demonstrates that both are part of the same continuum. All population control policies target and vilify women (Black women in particular), and coerce them into subjecting their bodies to state and medical surveillance; Birth controlled argues that assisted reproductive technologies and repro-genetic technologies employ a similar and stratified burden of blame and responsibility based on gender, race, class and caste.

Free Download Brandon Absher, "The Rise of Neoliberal Philosophy: Human Capital, Profitable Knowledge, and the Love of Wisdom"
English | ISBN: 1793615985 | 2021 | 196 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
In The Rise of Neoliberal Philosophy: Human Capital, Profitable Knowledge, and the Love of Wisdom, Brandon Absher argues that the neoliberal transformation of higher education has resulted in a paradigm shift in philosophy in the United States, leading to the rise of neoliberal philosophy. Neoliberal philosophy seeks to attract investment by demonstrating that it can produce optimal return. Further, philosophers in the neoliberal paradigm internalize and reproduce the values of the prevailing social order in their work, reorienting philosophical desire toward the production of attractive commodities. The aim of philosophy in the neoliberal university, Absher shows, has become the production of human capital and profitable knowledge.