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Chile, das Musterland der Liberalisierung, hat Wachstum mit hohen sozialen und ökologischen Kosten erkauft. Inzwischen ist die Notwendigkeit der Gegensteuerung unübersehbar geworden

With the Unibrennt protests, the starting launched in October 2009 from Vienna criticism of university underfunding and the Bologna system and in the course of about 100 university locations held actions worldwide, Martin Haselwanter employs in his dissertation 'Company - Budung - protest. 'Haselwanter identified neoliberal instrumentalization of education as a central cause of protest. The publication can be ordered from bookshops or from the publisher (wvfs.at). Adapted from the source document

The anthropology of neoliberalism has become polarised between a hegemonic economic model anchored by variants of market rule and an insurgent approach fuelled by derivations of the Foucaultian notion of governmentality. Both conceptions obscure what is neo' about neoliberalism: the reengineering and redeployment of the state as the core agency that sets the rules and fabricates the subjectivities, social relations and collective representations suited to realising markets. I propose a via media between these two approaches that construes neoliberalism as an articulation of state, market and citizenship that harnesses the first to impose the stamp of the second onto the third. Adapted from the source document.

Starting from the deep financial & economic crisis, which took place in Argentina towards the end of 2001, the political, economical & societal reconstruction phases up to early 2005 are briefly summarized. Especially the government of Kirchner -- in office since May 2003 -- set new priorities in several fields of politics, e.g. human rights, the attitude towards the IMF & the foreign creditors, as well as foreign policy. Many structural elements & legacies of the neoliberal era, however, are still very present even three years after the collapse. In spite of the high growth rates in the last two years the reconstruction process has to be qualified as fragile & reversible. Compared to 2002 the social movements appear mainly weakened today. Whether the Kirchner government will succeed in establishing a more social & law abiding type of capitalism, remains to be seen, since a durable change of power relations in favour of progressive forces has not been realized. 1 Table, 21 References. Adapted from the source document.

The future of education is discussed in a highly controversial manner. Concerning the concept of "lifelong learning,"the dispute is wedged between those in support & those in opposition of it. But what is the perspective? The argument put forward here is the insight in the necessity of lifelong learning as a potentially progressive idea. Therefore a modern social movement should take up the concept in order to free it from its current neoliberal deformations. 54 References. Adapted from the source document.

The privatization of public goods is a dominant strategy all across the world, pushed by international institutions, backed by neoliberal political concepts & propagated by economic actors, such as transnational corporations or institutional investors. Privatization is the other side of the globalization & liberalization of markets, facilitated by the regulation of property rights (TRIPS & GATS) & new technologies. The question, however, is whether the privatization of public goods is economically efficient, socially just & politically fostering the participation of peoples & the democratization of societies, & above all how the human security of peoples is affected. Primarily, questions the concept of human (versus commercial) security has to be discussed, ie, the norm defining whether a public good really is "good." In many cases it is not good for all, but only for a few peoples. Thus public goods, especially the commons, do not only involve dilemmas (such as the "tragedy of the commons"), but also social contradictions. A good for some people can be "a bad" for others. The distinction between local, regional, & global public goods only makes sense on the "demand" or consumption-side of public goods, ie, for users. With respect to their provision even local public goods, such as communal infrastructures, are the target of globally operating investors, eg, via cross border leasing of local infrastructures. There is not only one form of privatization, but there are many (from the privatization of public firms to the "feminization" of social services & the commercialization of public security), & for that reason it is difficult to get a comprehensive overview on the privatization of public goods in different parts of the world. 36 References. Adapted from the source document.

In den ostasiatischen Schwellenländern hatte die Marktwirtschaft Erfolg, weil sie durch Staatsinterventionen gestützt wurde. In Lateinamerika ist der Staat so schwach wie der Markt. Strukturanpassungsprogramme müssen daher eine starke Komponente enthalten, die sich auf den Umbau von öffentlichen Institutionen bezieht

How can structural aspects as well as agency be taken into consideration when analyzing states in dependent societies? The application of important critical approaches such as dependency theory & the state derivation debate as well as the mainstream discussion on failed states remains unsatisfactory. Therefore, an alternative critical approach is proposed which draws from regulation theory, gramscian ideas & the materialist state theory developed by Poulantzas. The value of such an approach is illustrated with regard to the Mexican transition towards neoliberalism & the transformation of the Mexican developmental state towards a competition state. References. Adapted from the source document.