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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"neoliberal governance"”.
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The Duty to Survive Well: Neoliberal Governance, Temporality and Breast Cancer Survivorship Discourse
… of breast cancer survivorship operate as neoliberal technologies of governance that invoke particular constructions of responsible and healthy citizenship, gender, and the future in order to direct the capacities and conduct of women affected by the disease, and the population at large, …
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Walking the City of Cape Town: (un)happiness
… measurable state of well-being or a commodity of neoliberal governance, this study contends that such reductions obscure its deeper affective and political dimensions. Drawing on thinkers including Hegel, Spinoza, Deleuze, Arendt, Ahmed, Jay, and de Man, I advance the notion of political happiness …
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The practice of memory: Decolonial resistance in indigenous Chile and the Chilean diaspora
… systems such as state dictatorship, and neoliberal governance and sociality structure our every relation, but also how the decolonial potential in memory and memorial performance generates a space for living in ways that defy these systems.
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Right to Sell: Politics of Informal Retail in the Neoliberal Era.
<p>This is a study on the puzzling case of neoliberal pro-market states enacting policies that attempt to curb the competitive and profitable businesses of urban street vendors. Accordingly, this project asks a simple question: if neoliberal governance of the economy prescribes a positive …
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Trauma Of Empire: Violence, Minor Affect, And The Cold War Transpacific
… shared experience of U.S. Cold War dominance and neoliberal governance, but also through literary mediations establishing an affective transnational zone: an alternative historical space that at once reveals the contradictions of "liberal empire" and produces an eccentric temporality disrupting …
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Racial and Relational Urbanisms: The Spatial Politics of Afro-Colombian Emplacement in Bogotá
… inequality, territorial stigma, urban divisions, neoliberal governance, and the urbanisation of ethnicity. It shows how such intersections articulate border dynamics of simultaneous confinement and contention, rather than bare “marginality” or “peripherality.” After an overview of key literature, …
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The Governance of Waste in Iqaluit, Nunavut
… waste management in Iqaluit, Nunavut. I draw on governance theory to critically examine the diffuse network of power that influences waste management practices and outcomes, and that have contributed to the city’s waste issues. Like other communities in Canada’s Nunavut territory, Iqaluit lacks …
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"Never again a Mexico without us" : gender, indigenous autonomy, and multiculturalism in neoliberal Mexico
… a challenge and threat to the Mexican state and neoliberal governance practices. At the center of that autonomy process are changes in gender equity and gendered relations of power that are crucial to the gains of the project. This multi-sited ethnography of that process takes place in a zone of …
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Security Provision and Governing Processes in Fragile Cities of the Global South: The case of Medellin 2002-2012
… analyses, as well as by critiques of the way neoliberal governance is shaping responses to urban instability. These analytical approaches tend to ignore the political aspects and governmental consequences of security provision in fragile cities. This thesis argues that Foucault’s work on …
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Seeing the State with Transgender People: Gender, Caste, and Neoliberal Development in Kerala, India
… changing shape of postcolonial developmentalist governance and the welfare state in the late-capitalist era. In the past decade, Indian LGBTQIA+ politics has seen a distinct, if ambivalent, shift towards reckoning with neoliberal governance, leaving the national LGBTQ+ movement in a state of …
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Of engineers, rationalities, and rule: An ethnography of neoliberal reform in an urban water utility in South India
… is an ethnography of a frontline culture of neoliberalism. It examines the new rationalities through which Chennai's reforming water utility, Metrowater, defines and categorizes people at its everyday public interface. It analyzes how reforms designed to minimize the state are internalized …
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Internationalization of Higher Education within Canada’s Migration Management Framework: Supply Side of International Student Migration
… can influence policies defining ISM. With the neoliberal transformations of the late 1970s in education funding, Canadian higher education institutions (HEIs) have become commercialized and mobilized, pursuing student recruitment as a means to compensate for reduced governmental support. With …
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The Greenway Trail in Community Development: An examination of value, representation, and distribution of benefits among stakeholders
… air and noise quality benefits. Yet, commonly, neoliberal governance and design of greenways leads to diminished social and environmental design in favor of economic development. Intentional design for social, environmental and economic stability is crucial for successful greenways, though they …
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Shifting academic identities in a post 1992 university. What are the implications for gender?
Under the weight of the neoliberal agenda, higher education lecturers in the United Kingdom (UK) struggle to maintain their professional identity, destabilised by the pressures of marketisation and accountability. The questions explored within this thesis are based around a research project that …
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Surveillance Technology and the Neoliberal State: Expanding the Power to Criminalize in a Data-Unlimited World
For the past several decades, the neoliberal school of economics has dominated public policy, encouraging American politicians to reduce the size of the government. Despite this trend, the power of the state to surveille, criminalize, and detain has become more extensive, even as the state appears …
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Critique and Neoliberalism's Critics: Art, Activism, and Uncertainty in Post-Recession Dublin
… of what they describe as contemporary ‘neoliberal’ governance. Proceeding through five core ethnographic chapters, I trace a narrative of different forms and scales of uncertainty, and my interlocutors’ political and moral-ethical relationships to them. I focus in turn on 1) how they …
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The discourse and reality of "win-win" interventions for forests and people in the Peruvian Amazon
… more bottom-up approaches to conservation governance and more directly confront hegemonic neoliberal governance structures.
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Maternal Transgressions in Contemporary Cinema
… different behaviours, just as modern systems of neoliberal governance and surveillance are eager to classify different maternal subjects. In both cases, this compulsion is fundamentally grounded within anxieties about dependency, survival, and futurity. The term ‘maternal transgression’ also …
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“Leftover women,” media discourses, and gender and class in post-socialist China
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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The dynamics of contingency: neoliberal redevelopment governance in Chicago and Buenos Aires
Neoliberal redevelopment governance has been ascendant worldwide in the last two decades and has come to profoundly influence mainstream urban politics. This project seeks to understand these formations from a comparative vantage-point, focusing on the global cities of Chicago and Buenos Aires. The …