Capitalism is a social and economic system that is prevalent in most parts of the world excluding socialist and communist countries. It is a system that encourages private ownership and entrepreneurship and does not find fault with the motive or profit making. It is a market that is not regulat...
‘Neoliberalism’ is a widely used term that travelled from economic philosophy into policymaking, and from policymaking into critical social scientific discourse in the late twentieth century. It refers to a form of capitalism ascendant since the 1970s but informed by post-war economic philosophical ...
In the following, I take these Foucauldian perspectives on capitalism, state power and sexual politics as analytical instru- ment to approach the interplay of sexual politics and neoliberalism. The Flexibilization of the Apparatus of Sexuality In 2001, Germany introduced a same-sex-partnership law; ...
I. Lenin, who extended Karl Marx’s theories on capitalism and communism as he wrote Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism (1916). Dependency theory, which was nurtured in the Economic Commission for Latin America, was a later version of neo-Marxism, arguing that dependency of the less...
and simultaneously against an older tradition of political economy that encoded a racialized and gendered conception of the nature of production and the economy. We must theorize the relationships between the carceral state and capitalism and ask how we can constitute democratic publics in a global sy...
This concept is not without its critics, with some arguing that neoliberalism is not a neatly demarcated period of capitalism but is instead “rooted in a set of geographically interlinked colonial and racial capitalist histories”. (Axter et al.,2021, p. 417). We agree that in the case of...
Max Weber and Karl Marx 9.1 Law, Legislation and Liberty 9.6 Spaces of Global Capitalism 9.0 The Stranger and the Chinese Mor... 8.8 商人與共產革命,1919-1927 8.7 Undoing Gender 9.1 中国妇女 7.4 Political Emotions 9.2 ReORIENT 7.5 我来说两句 短评 ··· ( 全部9 条 ) 热门...
Irrespective of the trajectory of this emergent phase of re-regulation, particularly after the 2008 global finance crisis, these remakings can be conceptualized as supplements reinforcing an imaginary of capitalism as the solution to, rather than progenitor of, uneven development. Through discourses of...
Thoughtdu jour: to the extent that profit under global capitalism is a function of time, we are all on speed. Moreover, that rush is about ranking and inequality and ultimately about how we define membership in world organizations. If nothing else, Shenzhen Speed set the pace for development...
Lawrence King (2002: 407) uses neoliberalism to refer not only to a policy package, but also to a framework for studying and evaluating countries' transitions from socialism to capitalism. In sum, the use of neoliberalism in the contemporary study of political economy differs from that of other...