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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"neoliberal capitalism"”.
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Pivotal Crisis: State Power and Social Forces in the Making of Neoliberal Capitalism
… elites to cope with the crisis of post-war capitalism and to harness American power to this end. The main argument is that the parochial way in which German state managers sought to preserve the domestic compact between capital and labour prevented a more progressive and solidaristic …
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Tales of the ‘good’ capitalist: Evaluating ways to legitimise neoliberal capitalism via a justification analysis of the ‘social’ in entrepreneurship
… social entrepreneurship as an alternative to neoliberal modes of governance, which they claim emphasises resource exploitation and profit-making. Social entrepreneurship’s engagement with solving putative ‘wicked problems’, such as social inequality, climate change, and responsible production …
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Dispossession of Matrimonial Choice in Contemporary India: Examining the Link between Cross-region Marriages, Neoliberal Capitalism, and New Forms of Gender Subordination
… conjugal homes. It argues that the spread of the neoliberal market economy in India has led to the hyper-commodification of the female body; intensified gender subordination; eroded women’s bargaining ability around their labour and their bodies; and increased women’s vulnerability to new forms of …
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Small city neighbors: race, space, and class in Mansfield, Ohio
… of race, class, gender, and space under global capitalism, and Mansfielders’ subjective interpretations of middle class whiteness. I use ethnography, history and Census analyses to nuance dominant narratives of deindustrialization and to highlight the socio-spatial particularities of global and …
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Chemical Intimacies and Toxic Publics
In this dissertation, I detail how capitalism has turned pollution into a generally accepted form of violence perpetuated in the name of economic health. Complete with a corps of risk managers and environmental consultants, neoliberal capitalism has fashioned pollution into a universal standard …
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Neoliberal Planning in Practice: Use Value or Exchange Value? A Post-Positivist Investigation of Auckland’s Housing Affordability Issues
… by focusing on deeper structural issues within neoliberal capitalism. Based on abductive inference, this research moves beyond commonly cited factors for Auckland’s affordability issues and generates an alternative hypothesis. It hypothesises that Auckland’s housing affordability issues stem not …
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Women's Textile Graffiti: An Aesthetic Staging of Public/Private Dichotomies
… the public/privates dichotomies that constitute neoliberal capitalism as well as liberal democracies. Across both of these institutions, privatized matters are problematically excluded from political consideration, and private sphere values—such are nurturance, interdependence, and …
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There Must Be a Reason People Come Here
… under modern, hegemonic structures of Neoliberal Capitalism. They were cultivated from "bits of sensitivity" drawn from an unexceptional past regulated by systems of scarcity, in full view of a horizon of environmental destruction and vast inequalities burning down the present to …
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Cosmopolitanism Now: Fragmented Belonging
… displacement, empire, surveillance, and global capitalism. Engaging critical theorists such as Kwame Anthony Appiah, Homi Bhabha, Pheng Cheah, and Roland Barthes, the thesis identifies fragmented belonging as an ethically charged response to the asymmetrical realities of contemporary …
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Infrastructuring Urban Regeneration. Reimagining regeneration practice for architects and community organisers
… is not possible under the conditions of neoliberal capitalism, the Architect _Organiser demonstrates principles for the contemporary practitioner to bring about transformative change alongside community and non-expert groups through developing tools with which to evaluate their own …
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Who makes the game? Examining private ownership in professional sports
… ethos of exclusion and control. In the era of neoliberal capitalism, private ownership has served to enrich owners at the expense of players, fans, and the public, who are on the losing ends of collective bargaining negotiations and stadium subsidy deals. To make these arguments, this …
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Islamic finance, Sharia non-compliance and the standardisation of Sharia governance
… governance. In order to counter the logics of neoliberal capitalism which result in banks ‘shopping around’ for favourable interpretations, this thesis concludes that Sharia governance should be part of an integrated and standardised system of Islamic corporate governance.
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Embodied Leadership and Conditional Legitimacy: Critically Conscious Male Leaders Navigating Systems of Power
… systems of power, including empire, whiteness, neoliberal capitalism, and cisheteropatriarchy. These interlocking systems influence how leadership is defined, recognized, and legitimized, often privileging particular identities and forms of authority. The persistent underrepresentation of people …
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Exploring the Subjective Experience of Everyday Surveillance: The Case of Smartphone Devices as Means of Facilitating "Seductive" Surveillance
… range of purposes. However, in the context of neoliberal capitalism where the traditionally distinct spheres of security and marketing have merged, data generated through these personal devices can also be used for state and market purposes raising serious societal concerns. The present study …
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"No to the bear" : contested power and truths behind the reintroduction of brown bears in the Pyrenees.
… ‘needs’, the unrelenting march of neoliberal capitalism dramatically manifests dichotomous views and discourses on the environment and sustainable development. Always complex, and often conflictual, the human-environment relationships which are constructed within this neoliberal …
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Understanding the Role of Consumer Organisations in Policy Making and Regulation in the UK and Norway. Do they matter?
Abstract Neoliberalism constructs a particular version of consumers as existing individually and within markets, and not collectively outside of markets where regulation and policy is made. This undermines the individual’s ability, as a consumer, to influence how markets are constructed and …
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Biomedical disenchantments: practices, discourses, and imaginaries of transnational biomedicalization in rural Ethiopia
… in these spaces is a variegated construct of neoliberal capitalism and thus produces disenchantments and contradictions evident within the embodied and socially embedded practices understood through analysis of the integration of globalized macroinstitutional structures and local clinical …
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Postsecular Victorians: literature, culture, and belief
… that anticipates William Connolly’s analysis of neoliberal capitalism. Turning to one of Ruskin’s principal targets, J. S. Mill, allows me to argue that Mill’s reputation as a wholly atheistic utilitarian derives from an impoverished secular understanding of Victorian modernity. Brontë’s Villette …
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Global nomadism: a discursive and narratological analysis of identity concepts in the 'mobile professional'.
… that are emerging to encompass the ideology of neoliberalism and which are inscribed in a particular genre of popular managerial and globalization literature through prescription of ideal attitudes and forms of behaviour. The researcher selected a representative sample of corporate texts that …
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BRICS Currency and Dollar Hegemony: Passing of the Torch?
… critical distance from the present mechanisms of neoliberal capitalism, vying for currency hegemony presents a distinct venue for “great powers” competition unique to the 21st century.</p>
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