Review of States of Discipline
“Neoliberalisation is never found alone” claims Jamie Peck, Nik Theodore and Neil Brenner. “As a necessarily incomplete program, wherever it is found, neoliberalism is therefore a creature of...
View ArticleStates of Discipline
The financial crisis of 2007-2008 severely damaged the fundamental structures of global economy. However, neoliberalism remained as the dominant mode of capitalist accumulation. States of Discipline:...
View ArticleDecoding the Repertoires of Authoritarian Neoliberalism in Turkey
Turkey’s recent political and economic direction under the Justice and Development Party (AKP) has come to occupy a significant place in academic and popular discussions on contemporary authoritarian...
View ArticleAuthoritarian Neoliberalism: Philosophies, Practices, Contestations
While debates on the conceptualisation and utilisation of neoliberalism continue to produce vibrant points of analytical contention, the term ‘authoritarian neoliberalism’ is fast becoming an...
View ArticleNothing new under a(n authoritarian) neoliberal sun?
What is the purpose of theory? What utility is offered by our concepts and frameworks? Why do we group social phenomena in some ways and separate them in others? These fundamental questions probably...
View ArticleAusterity Urbanism Goes South, Authoritarian Neoliberalism Goes Urban
How do competitiveness, austerity and insecurity combine in urban contexts? How are the local state’s (in)security policies shaped in conditions of fiscal restraints and competitive-cities programmes?...
View ArticleThe rise of nationalist authoritarianism and the crisis of neoliberalism
Global neoliberalism is in turmoil. Proven policies have lost traction; established political systems haemorrhage legitimacy, and the ideology that once embodied the common sense of the age has...
View ArticleBrazil: The Rise of Fascism?
Brazil elected its new President on 28 October 2018 – the improbable, unspeakable fascist former army captain Jair Bolsonaro won against the affable unimpeachable democratic candidate of a left...
View ArticleThe national populist mutation of neoliberalism: lessons from Hungary
Last December, Angela Merkel brokered a controversial deal for the EU, resolving the crisis that Hungary’s and Poland’s veto against tying EU funds to rule-of-law generated. The deal unblocked the...
View ArticleThe authoritarian consolidation attempt in Turkey
Görkem Altınörs and Ümit Akçay analyse the political economy of regime change in Turkey. The AKP’s ‘authoritarian fix’ strategy was a response to multiple crises in the 2010s. Now, it has led to an...
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