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The crisis Argentina faced in the late 1980s legitimized a diagnosis that linked the country's poor economic performance to an inward-looking economy, excessive fiscal spending, unwarranted state regulations, a misguided set of incentives that failed to boost competitiveness and the "economic populism" that privileged political goals over economic efficiency. Alternatively, the solution was sought in policies that privileged deregulation, the free flow of commodities and capital, privatization and a selective intervention of the state in the economy. In this article we will account for the shape of neoliberal restructuring in Argentina by drawing attention to the heavy costs stabilization imposed on the country as the decade progressed. We will emphasize the costs the workers were called on to bear and the responses that emerged from them to challenge neoliberalism. La crise qui a frappé l'Argentine à la fin des années 1980 a justifié un diagnostic qui liait la faible performance économique à plusieurs facteurs : le caractère endogène de son économie, les dépenses excessives de l'État, les réglementations mal avisées, les stimulants mal ciblés qui ne sont pas parvenus à soutenir la compétitivité et le « populisme économique » qui privilégiait les finalités politiques plutôt que l'efficacité économique. En réponse à ce diagnostic, les solutions privilégiées visaient la déréglementation, la libre circulation des marchandises et du capital, les privatisations et l'intervention ciblée de l'État dans l'économie. Cet article présente la configuration des réformes néolibérales en Argentine en insistant sur les coûts élevés que la stabilisation a entraînés au cours de la décennie. Nous soulignons l'importance du fardeau imposé aux travailleurs et travailleuses ainsi que leurs réactions pour contrer le néolibéralisme.

This collection emphasizes a cross-disciplinary approach to the problem of scale, with essays ranging in subject matter from literature to film, architecture, the plastic arts, philosophy, and scientific and political writing. Its contributors consider a variety of issues provoked by the sudden and pressing shifts in scale brought on by globalization and the era of the Anthropocene, including: the difficulties of defining the concept of scale; the challenges that shifts in scale pose to knowledge formation; the role of scale in mediating individual subjectivity and agency; the barriers to understanding objects existing in scalar realms different from our own; the role of scale in mediating the relationship between humans and the environment; and the nature of power, authority, and democracy at different social scales.--

This article examines the relationship between subjectivity and resistance to neoliberalism in three townships where the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign is active in Cape Town, South Africa, namely Driftsands, Tafelsig and Vrygrond. It is based on participatory research conducted with members of this social movement resident in these townships through administration of a house-to-house questionnaire, in-depth interviews and workshops held with participants. Based on this research, it argues that social movement members' subjectivies are complex and shaped by the townships' different histories, the different interpretations of 'community' in each township and the affective relationships and exchanges between residents evident in all three townships. The authors contend that the subjectivites of the township residents interviewed in turn influence the politics of their resistance to evictions and service cut-offs for non-payment. It concludes by arguing that the subjectivites of members of the social movement in each community are complex, and that, therefore, these subjectivities have a complicated relationship with resistance to neoliberalism.

District 9 is a sci-fi film, ostensibly concerned with the arrival of extraterrestrials in Johannesburg, that explores notions of regulatory control and economic supremacy in twenty-first century neoliberal South Africa. This commentary and political resonance are found beneath, and also work with the action and CGI special effects. This essay attempts to identify many real world features as allegories within the film: post-apartheid racism, economic subjugation and urban poverty and how, despite past economic constraints due to colour, the new neoliberal rhetoric of innovation and self-adjustment has replaced the white-centred nationalism of an older capitalism, but with devastating consequences. District 9 is, the author argues, a powerful film through which to think about the structural, spatial and cultural failures of post-apartheid South Africa. The indifferences by the South Africans in the film carry strong ideological and social signification to the past: the extraterrestrials encode the urban landscape which is then decoded by audiences as they interpret the haunting remnants of segregation and urban poverty now reanimated by immigrant aliens (doubling for Nigerians and Zimbabweans) in the narrative. More importantly, via the substitution of subservient extraterrestrials for black immigrants new to South Africa, the film throws up for discussion many discourses over race, politics, remembrance, inequality and reveals decades-old problems recalibrated in District 9's sci-fi dystopia.

1. Post-Modernism as Philosophy and Post-Modernism as Culture -- 2. The Emergence of Post-Modern Culture in Neoliberal Society -- 3. Who are the Post-Modern Conservatives? -- 4. Brexit, Donald Trump, and the Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism Across the Globe -- 5. An Egalitarian Agenda for the Future

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Neoliberal Transformation of Mexico -- 2. Theorizing Neoliberalism -- 3. Neoliberalism and the Transnational Activity of the State -- 4. Tracing the Trail of Table Grapes -- 5. Maize and Indigenous Communities of Oaxaca -- 6. Disjuncture between Economic Policy and Sustainable Use of Natural Resources -- 7. Privately Unsustainable -- 8. Policies of Conservation and Sustainable Development -- 9. Neoliberalism and the Social Relations of Forestry Production in Chihuahua -- 10. The Impact of World Bank Policies on Indigenous Communities -- 11. The Impact of Neoliberal Policies on Rural Producers in Oaxaca, Mexico -- 12. Neoliberal Capital and the Mobility Approach in Anthropology -- 13. Coffee, Neoliberalism, and Social Policy in Oaxaca -- 14. Up the Mode in the Period of Post-Neoliberalism -- 15. Conclusion -- Contributors -- Index.

"This book contributes both to the analysis of Kirchnerismo in Argentina and to the developmental regime approach in the political economy of development in terms of Latin America more broadly. Interpretation of the different components of Kirchnerismo through the lens of the developmental regime show the systematic way in which the different elements of the relationships between state-market, state-society, and national-international dichotomies can consistently be characterised within a developmentalist paradigm, or what Grugel terms neodesarrollismo. The developmental regime approach will greatly aid the ability to demonstrate that Kirchnerismo is a project that is necessarily rooted in all three of these developmental dichotomies, and can therefore only be wholly interpreted through such an approach. Wylde develops the analytical interpretation of the Kirchner regime 2003-2007"--

Fiona Dukelow and Patricia Kennett examine the post-2008 welfare states in Ireland, Britain, and the US. They explain how each of these countries experienced an acceleration in the operation of disciplinary neoliberalism - through punitive regimes of surveillance and sanctions - and consider the implications of these contemporary welfare policies.