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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"neoliberal globalization"”.
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Neoliberal globalization, racism and education: The model minority thesis in education policy
… racial inequality? What can we do about it? “Neoliberal Globalization, Model Minority Politics and Education Policy Research” traces current trends in US education policy research discourse about Asians to argue that prevailing conservative and liberal social justice based paradigms abstract …
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A gendered analysis of the ready-made garments (RMG) sector of Bangladesh: a paradox of empowerment and dis-empowerment
<p>Neoliberal globalization is a gendered process. Transnational production in its search for “cheap, docile, and dexterous” labor has led to the expansion of the Bangladeshi export-led garment industry, which in turn has resulted in the feminization of labor. While the increase in number of poor …
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Sowing her seeds : imagining transnational social movements in the face of global capitalism
The process of neoliberal globalization has long been touted for its success in increasing connectivity the world over. However, a closer look reveals that while capital has rendered many borders invisible and gained a new flexibility, those most devastated by the unending need for profit remain …
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Celebrity Diplomacy in the Current Global Economy: A Feminist Perspective
… political economy literature to examine how neoliberal globalization has contributed to the growing role of celebrity diplomats in international politics. I argue that the increased presence and involvement of celebrity diplomats in the post-9/11 era is the result of neoliberal globalization …
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THE CHALLENGES OF EDUCATION FOR DEMOCRACY: SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA IN AN ERA OF GLOBALIZATION
… the possibilities for development unleashed by neoliberal globalization and the current tremendous human and material potential of African countries. Where consensus fails, however, is how to create these peaceful and democratic conditions. As the status quo of transition countries in …
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The politics of indigenous social struggle in Colombia
… social movements of Colombia as resistance to neoliberal globalization. The thesis uses Escobar’s three concepts: alternative development, alternative modernity, and alternatives to modernity as a conceptual lens with which to analyze three projects by the Nasa indigenous people of Colombia: …
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Beyond Food Access: Accumulation by Dispossession and Dollar General in Central Appalachia
… theory of accumulation by dispossession. Neoliberal globalization created the conditions that allow Dollar General to thrive in the region – in particular, the corporate enclosure of the commons, the decline of the coal industry, and the new economy which has forced many people to travel …
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The mediatization of educational policies in Chile: discourses and governance in a neoliberal education field
… hint at its essential porosity in the new age of neoliberal globalization.
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Cultural governance in contemporary China: popular culture, digital technology, and the state
… resilience of post-socialist regimes amid neoliberal globalization.
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Zona Libre: Conservatism, Urban Growth, and the Rise of the New Economy in the San Diego Borderlands
<p>Both the rise of conservatism as well as the neoliberal turn of the twentieth century have received much scholarly attention in recent decades. Often, these two subjects are examined separately, with the former focusing on questions of party realignment in the United States and the latter on …
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The Art of Seduction and Affect Economy: Neoliberal Class Struggle and Gender Politics in a Tokyo Host Club
… socioeconomic restructuring, a reaction to globalization that is reshaping the nation's labor and commodity forms. Based on ethnographic fieldwork I conducted in Tokyo between 2003 and 2005, I argue that selfhood, lifestyles, and social relationships have become commodifiable at the …
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Pivotal Crisis: State Power and Social Forces in the Making of Neoliberal Capitalism
… of the crisis and created the conditions for the neoliberal counterattack. Anxious to defend its export model against protectionism and inflation, German policy makers mobilized their country’s financial power to counter the interventionist and expansionary remedies of the European Left and to …
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Riding Bicycles When We Need Cars: The Development Of Transnational Union Networks In Brazil
… power and combat the negative effects of neoliberal globalization. This dissertation seeks to understand the factors that promote and inhibit the development of these transnational union networks. In 2001, the Brazilian Central Única dos Trabalhadores (CUT) launched a program known as the …
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The transformation of Korean wireless telecommunications policy: the state, transnational forces, businesses, and networked users
… the interactions between the forces of global neoliberalism, the Korean developmental state, and domestic capital shaped a hybrid type of wireless telecommunications policy regime which this research sees as the “neoliberal-developmental state.” The other is that online community culture gave …
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Art, Commerce, and Social Transformation: Public Art And the Marketing of Philadelphia
… the consequences of deindustrialization and neoliberal globalization, characterized by high poverty and inequality, and consistently low rankings in quality of life indicators by the national media, what role do murals play in change? Do murals mask urban problems by literally painting over …
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Surveillance, Subjectivity and Resistance at the Frontiers of Europe: A Materialist Analysis of the Greece-Turkey Borders
… and the contemporary material processes of neoliberal globalization and post-politics that enable the EU borders to function as a decentred totality and to exclude certain peoples and not others. 2. Practical aspects of the border: The dissertation analyzes how the border operates in …
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Capoeira as a Resource: Multiple Uses of Culture Under Conditions of Transnational Neoliberalism
… as a ‘cultural resource’ in the context of neoliberal globalization. Since the 1970s, immigrating Brazilians brought their practice to new lands and commercialized their embodied knowledge and cultural difference. While they initially sought to create economic capital, a whole range of …
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Diasporic identities, autochthonous rights: race, gender, and the cultural politics of Creole land rights in Nicaragua
… state and later within the context of neoliberal democracy. In both cases, rights to communal lands have been imagined as fundamentally indigenous rights. For Creole communities that actively identify as part of a transnational Black Diaspora, the challenge of reconciling an African and …
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Resistance and waste work: Women’s environmentalism in Southern Italy
… and of waste management in Italy. Drawing on neoliberal globalization scholarship, in Chapters 1 and 2 I highlight how the overwhelming prevalence of nation-state policy frameworks risk marginalizing considerations of gender, race and ethnicity from these studies. In the third chapter (Chapter …
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Inner‐city regeneration and the politics of resistance in Istanbul: a comparative analysis of Sulukule and Tarlabaşi
Territories of neoliberal urbanization have expanded as local and central governments around the world have increasingly approached and utilized urban land as a rent-‐generating tool that can as well reproduce the workings of advanced capitalism in full effect. It has thus been inevitable to see …
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