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Showing 1 to 20 of 538 for “"Neoliberalism."”.
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Neoliberalism and the "Obesity Epidemic"
<p>Neoliberalism has been described as a political and economic theory that proposes "human well-being can best be advanced by liberating... freedoms...within an institutional framework [of]...strong private property rights [and] free markets.... [I]f markets do not exist (...such as in... health …
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Revenue policing, social control, and neoliberalism
<p>A variety of studies have examined the role of economic structures in policing. These inquiries offer insight into revenue-based law enforcement activities but are simultaneously limited by blind spots in theorization. Reviewing these studies, it is apparent the criminal justice system can and …
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Critique and neoliberalism in Michel Foucault
… and the "politics of truth," and his study of neoliberalism and subsequent turn to ethics and "subjectivation." In the first, I identify how critique as a unity of the history of the present and desubjection emerges in relation to its object, namely, "man" as the subject and object of …
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Navigating neoliberalism: cultivating community in contemporary music
As we enter the first quarter of the twenty-first century, waning public interest in classical music has required industry groups, musicians, and advocacy organizations to shift their business model to resemble that of a private corporation participating in a competitive marketplace. Their …
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From Neoliberalism to Socialism: Reimagining Socialism in Africa
… If the legacies of slavery, colonialism, and neoliberalism are the root causes of Africa’s maldevelopment, then African states would be within their rights to adopt socialism as the organizing economic principal that would usher in positive growth and human development. The thesis will examine …
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Neoliberalism and the Problem of Poverty, 1929-73
… inequality have formed the greatest arsenal of neoliberalism’s critics, my dissertation explores the solutions these thinkers offered to meet those challenges, and how they evolved over the course of the twentieth century. It explores these themes across five distinct theoretical and political …
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Captured Desires: Neoliberalism from Below in Fujimori's Peru
… of the working classes and mystifying why neoliberalism has proven so remarkably enduring. In this thesis, I argue the neoliberal turn cannot be properly understood without examining neoliberalism from below, the variegated processes through which the working classes (re)produce …
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From Governance to Consciousness: Reclaiming Participatory Agency Beyond Neoliberalism
This thesis argues that today’s ecological and social crises stem from governance built for control, not collaboration. Representative democracy and capitalism have fused into a system that concentrates power, hollows agency, and accelerates environmental collapse. The solution is not better …
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Videogame culture as transnational media: one neoliberalism, many resistances
… stealth espionage thriller into a critique of neoliberalism's financial speculations and neocolonial wars, while Final Fantasy 12 rewrites the fantasy role-playing videogame into a critique of the colonial and neocolonial legacies of fantasy and role-playing fiction. Using the tools of critical …
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Neoliberalism, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Chesapeake Bay
Neoliberalism, as the influence of economic considerations within the political process, has impacted environmentalism on a variety of levels. Without regulation, the neoliberal capitalist drive to maximize production, consumption, and profits is antagonistic to environmental sustainability. The …
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Detrimental Determinants: The Impacts of Neoliberalism on Pro-Environmental Behaviors
… behavioral outcomes. Results indicate that neoliberalism overall plays a significant and often negative role in individual pro-environmental behavior, which empirically challenges the assertion that markets can simultaneously self-regulate and address environmental degradation. Insights for …
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Asylum, Security, Neoliberalism and the Development of the Rwanda Plan
… theoretical perspectives from security and neoliberalism studies as originally emphasized in literature on the Australian Pacific Solution. To study the development of the Rwanda Plan, this thesis conducts a historical comparison of immigration policy during the post-Brexit referendum period …
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The McDonaldized Death Penalty: Neoliberalism, Governmentality, and American Capital Punishment
… or its persistence in America in regards to neoliberalism. To address this void in understanding, I conceptualize Ritzer's four tenets of McDonaldization (predictability, calculability, efficiency, control) as a representation of market rationality, which neoliberalism seeks to insert into …
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Prison Siting in Appalachia: Carceral Expansion, Neoliberalism, and Environmental Harm
<p>Since 1991, 14 state and federal prisons have been built in Appalachia with a recent proposal for a federal prison to be constructed in Letcher County, KY. Contradicting the narrative that Appalachia remains separated from the national economy, the ills of carceral growth are apparent throughout …
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Social Movements and Resistance to Neoliberalism in America, 1979-2000
Neoliberalism is a political creed defined by a belief in the power of markets to bring about a free and prosperous society. It is the dominant ideology of recent times, and one that has attracted growing interest from historians. This dissertation breaks new ground by examining neoliberalism “from …
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Neoliberalism and rural exclusion in South Africa: Xolobeni case study
… postcolonial concepts of the nation state and neoliberalism, which have both contributed to the conceptualisation of citizenship in the postcolonial world. The study found that economic growth-centred development in South Africa is often at the expense of those living in the poor communities of …
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Teacher Burnout, Neoliberalism, and the Fight for a Thriving Education Body
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