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This article focuses on Foucault's analysis in The Birth of Biopolitics of the neoliberal concept of homo oeconomicus, which is no more defined (as it was the case in classical liberalism) as an atom of intangible freedom, but becomes on the contrary a manageable and 'eminently governable' man, whose economic behaviour can be modified through an action on his environment. Thus, according to Foucault, the neoliberal governmentality is characterized by the necessary coexistence of an autonomy of the markets and massive strategies of intervention (implying the imposition of modes of subjectivation through the adjustment of an 'environment') on the social field. Adapted from the source document.

Have the characteristics of the Japanese state changed since the collapse of the international economic system of 'embedded liberalism 'that was constructed at the end of the Second World War? And, if so, in what respects? An examination of Japan's macroeconomic policy and the structure of public finances since the 1980s supplies an answer to these questions. Contrary to what is claimed in much of the extant literature, the Japanese state has clearly undergone significant transformation. Indeed, while the state has taken a lesser role in industrial policy and matters relating to the social domain (both historically significant areas of action in the developmental state model), the overall place of the state has grown, not shrunk, as it now assumes a greater (if less visible) role in preserving the stability of a liberalized, finance-driven market. In Japan, the characteristics of the state have considerably changed in both qualitative and quantitative terms, changes that can be described as a neoliberal hybridization of the developmental state model. Adapted from the source document.

In the wake of Foucault, most analyses of the neoliberal style of governmentality focus on holding the individual accountable, as the preferred new approach to the transfer of what have traditionally been State responsibilities to (certain) individuals A a process fostered by neoliberal policies. The foregoing article looks at some of the techniques used to produce "individual responsibility", then attempts to come up with a counter-argument by focusing on the "flaw" on which this "sophism" is built in order for it to work A or at least to be appealing enough to forestall criticism. The trick is in the disarming confusion between the fostering of individual moral responsibility A in the sense of the ability to act, i.e. to act responsibly, which most people desire and hope for, and the moralizing individualization of responsibility for one's own material wellbeing failing which, one risks being called irresponsible. Our elucidation is intended to save the left wing from being deprived of the rich resources of empowerment processes. Adapted from the source document.

Japan has experienced two major periods of privatization: railroads & telecommunications under Premier Nakasone (1982-1986) & the post office under Premier Koizumi (2001-2006). Between these two episodes, Japan has also pursued deregulation & market-opening policies (1996-2006). The article analyzes the political processes behind this succession of events. It demonstrates that neoliberal ideology was not a decisive factor in itself & that it was often a minority stance in Japan. In fact, the major privatization reforms took place when political entrepreneurs who enjoyed considerable political autonomy managed to exploit this ideology to direct political ends & used privatization as an instrument to restructure the political sphere. Adapted from the source document.

This article, specifically based on 2007 Jasbir Puar's book Terrorist Assemblages, recently but partially translated into French, seeks to stress and put into perspective some new theoretical tools to describe new forms of cultural imperialism. New concepts such as homonationalism and sexual exceptionalism will be analyzed and discussed in the light of recent national and transnational phenomena of the ri new imperialism pi. Through a materialist reading, it will also discuss how homonationalism and American politics of inclusion and exclusion respectively of white queer subjectivities and racialized subjects, especially Arab and/or Muslim (queer or not), are part of a broader struggle for hegemony underlying neoliberal politics of globalized capitalism. There is therefore a new stage of imperialism, which now, and increasingly, uses sexual politics as a strategy of accumulation of capital. Adapted from the source document.