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This essay focuses on the ways in which ideas popularly associated with the Enlightenment function as common sense in the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, which was formally approved by the Association of College and Research Libraries at the beginning of 2015. This essay begins with a close reading of the Framework for Information Literacy, followed by an analysis of its ideological underpinnings, specifically liberalism. I then use postcolonial and political theory to think through the role of historical difference in pedagogy generally and in the information literacy pedagogy articulated by the Framework more specifically. The hegemonic ideological liberalism of the Framework, its universality, narrative of progress, and disinterest in power, must be supplemented with historical difference in order to provide context for its truth claims and to inculcate responsibility to the other. This work could take the form of kairotic information literacy pedagogy, or local and contextual articulations of the Framework, or something else. The Framework is not worthless or useless, but it is also not the answer. ; Ce texte s'intéresse à la façon dont les idées communément associées aux Lumières servent de sens commun dans le Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education (Cadre pour les compétences informationnelles dans l'enseignement supérieur), qui a été officiellement approuvé par l'Association of College and Research Libraries au début de 2015. Une lecture attentive du Framework sera suivie d'une analyse de ses fondements idéologiques, plus précisément du libéralisme. La théorie postcoloniale et politique sont permettent de réfléchir au rôle de la différence historique dans la pédagogie de manière générale et dans la pédagogie de la culture informationnelle telle que présentée par le Framework plus précisément. Enfin, le Framework devrait être abordé et compris de manière stratégique, en tenant compte de ses limites, plutôt qu'envisagé comme une vérité absolue.

The digital PDF and EPUB versions of Chapters 3 and 16 are available Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0). Since the world economic crisis of 2007, commentators have pointed to the dangers of a capitalistic system that seems incapable of delivering sustainable growth and well-being.
This bold new book offers an exhaustive diagnosis of global capitalism across the world's nations. David Lane examines the nature and appeal of neoliberal capitalism according to different schools of thought, and he analyses proposals for its reform and replacement from state socialism and social democratic corporatism to self-sustaining networks.
Looking ahead to a novel system of economic and political coordination based on a combination of market socialism and state planning, this book offers crucial insights for scholars thinking about alternatives to capitalism.

This collection of essays incorporates the insight of an international group of experts to explore the impact of neoliberalism within different organisational domains from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Examining neoliberalism in the context of political, social, economic and institutional domains, this volume promotes a critical and challenging approach to the social and economic attitudes characterising late-modern capitalism

The workshop explored how the policies and rhetoric of neoliberalism impact and reshape the intimate sphere, using it as a site for state intervention while deploying the language of privatization. This use of the intimate sphere as a site of regulation is not new. For example, the intimate sphere has always been a heightened domain of regulation for racialized marginal communities. Understanding this, what lessons can we learn from the history of struggle in African-American communities over issues such as sex, desire and family? Specifically, we explored what interventions in theory and practice might be developed from black queer theory to challenge the attack on or use of the intimate sphere in neoliberalism. Cathy Cohen is Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago, and the author of the groundbreaking 2005 essay "Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics?" (in: Black Queer Studies. A Critical Anthology ed. by Patrick E. Johnson and Mae G. Henderson, Durham/London 2005), that has inspired much reflection and response from queer of color as well as critical whiteness thought. In the essay, Cohen criticizes the all-too-simple binary of "queer" versus "straight" and pleads for queer theory and politics to be more attentive to the complex and intertwined power relations of, for instance, sexuality, race, and class. In her early book, The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics (Chicago 1999), she addresses the tensions between NGO and black community organizing, state politics, and the needs of individuals in relation to HIV/AIDS politics and policies. In her most recent book, Democracy Remixed. Black Youth and the Future of American Politics (Oxford 2010), Cohen presents a detailed analysis of the racialized and often still racist power dynamics in contemporary US politics that draws on the actual voices of black youth. In her talk, she connects this understanding of the racialized state to neoliberal developments and the specific forms ...

The literature on the unfree character of temporary migrant labour has drawn much needed attention to the poor working conditions faced by migrant workers and opened up an important space to challenge those ubiquitous claims by defenders of the current political-economic status quo of the freedom expressed at the core of neoliberalism. However, there is a risk to focusing on legal unfreedom to the exclusion of a broader critique of the logic of capitalist reproduction, the very premise of which is the private ownership of society's productive wealth and the alienation of the majority of people from that wealth. Unfreedom and coercion are systematic to capitalist market relations, and all wage labour, including that of formally 'free', is unfree. This article examines different conceptions of labour unfreedom and concludes with a discussion of unfree labour in the neoliberal context.

Corporate mindfulness is the favorite labor management technique of the neoliberal period. The formalized packaging of corporate mindfulness began in the late 1970s but was built on a long tradition of attempts to hack the minds of workers in the United States. What distinguishes these previous attempts from corporate mindfulness is the strong ideological connection between corporate mindfulness and neoliberalism, the ideological operant of this modern stage of capitalism. This research establishes and explores that connection and the contradictions wrought by it, by examining the ways in which workers' stress, anxieties, and complaints are elided and workers are instead subjected to the directed introspection of corporate mindfulness programs and further socialized to understand the workplace as community. JEL Classification: B52, Z12, N00

"How far is there a regional trend away from neoliberalism in Latin America and how can we characterize the new forms of state activism that are emerging in the region? This book explores different expressions and approaches to post-neoliberal governance in Latin America and identifies the place of social and political inclusion, as well strategies for economic growth, within them. It explores the possibilities and constraints on the state, along with changing models of democracy, social policy and the political economy of development, bringing in examples from Venezuela, Bolivia, Argentina, Brazil and Chile." -- Book cover

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 From Ironclad to Discreet Rule of the Proletariat -- Waste or Development -- The Irreconcilability of Neoliberalism with China -- The Culture of Neoliberalism -- Restating Our Hypothesis -- Situating the Issue -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- 2 Theory Without Subject -- The Conditions for Development -- Half-Truth and the Mainstream -- The Commodity and the War with China -- References -- 3 China Defies Neoliberalism -- Neoliberalism Contra Autonomy -- Second-Hand White Privilege in East Asia -- Neoliberalism and the Reign of Commodities -- The Context for Resource Allocation -- The Necessity of Immiseration for Profits -- Conclusion: China Defies Neoliberalism -- References -- 4 Towards a Socialist Development Theory -- Development Under the Imperialist Constraint -- Reified Subjects of Macroeconomics -- Kalecki's Position -- Capital Formation in a Developing Context -- Capital Formation with Chinese Characteristics -- Investment -- Macro Policy -- Unemployment -- Agriculture -- Closing Comment -- References -- 5 From Discreet to Ironclad Dictatorship of the Proletariat -- Democracy is a Form of Power Exercise -- Fairy Tales of 'Fair Trade' -- Recollecting Thoughts -- Capital is Obfuscation -- The Future that Has Happened -- A Social Yardstick for Progress -- References -- Index.

Orthodox Marxist historical materialisms have viewed the history of social formations one-sidedly from the mode of production as base, which over-determines the political, ideological superstructure. In contrast, this article proposes an augmentation of historical materialism which has as its determinative base the mode of exchange. Specifically, through a lens of exchange, a spatial and territorial element is brought to an analysis and historicizing of imperialism. This article argues that the world entered into an imperialist stage of capitalism in the 1990s. Imperialism is inseparable from the capitalist economy. But it does not necessarily follow that imperialism can be explained away as a historical stage of the capitalist economy. Imperialism is a matter of politics among nations. To see this, we need to look at world history from the double axis, i.e. the state and capital. Modern imperialism is not necessarily expansionist in terms of territory. Rather, it aims at expanding through trade. By way of spreading the market economy, imperialism tries to gain surplus value. Thus, 'neoliberalism' by definition is imperialism. Its nature is to aim for global expansion of the market.

This concise volume presents a series of conversations conducted by its editor with internationally renowned educators, scholars and social critics. The primary focus is on a set of important social and cultural issues and the complex nature of the global contemporary crises in higher education and economics, and the values and goals educational institutions pursue and produce. Contributors to this volume discuss why the present systems of higher education are ailing almost everywhere, and which remedies have turned out to be their poison.The contributions here investigate how and why universities and the knowledge they seek have become hostages to an ideology based on neoliberalism, economism and a fundamentalism of the market. These ideologies have reshaped higher education and contributed to its commodification and commercialization, transforming educational institutions according to a model that originated in the domains of global business enterprises. Bureaucratization and the growth of a managerial class in higher education have led to universities that focus on what is purportedly marketable, while neglecting the commitment to the pursuit of truth, the education of character and the cultivation of civic values that informed older educational models. The contributors to this book argue, from many different angles, for resistance to these recent developments within higher education.