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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"neoliberalization"”.
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Neoliberalization of educational policy discourses in Chile
In an age of globalization dominated by a neoliberal ideology, many scholars have studied the effects of a market-driven model on education systems in different parts of the world. They have focused on the scope and effects of neoliberalism on school funding, governance, student and school …
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Understanding the Neoliberalization of Education Through Spaces of Labour Autonomy
… It is the primary obstacle to the further neoliberalization of education. The expansion of standardized instructional and evaluative techniques and technologies are necessary for opening new markets within schools and for weakening the collective power of teachers and their unions. Their …
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Municipal water supply governance in Ontario: neoliberalization, utility restructuring, and infrastructure management
… and policy orientations consistent with neoliberalization. Two strands of research posit particular relationships between neoliberalization and sustainability. One (associated with political ecology) asserts that neoliberalization yields negative outcomes for environmental policy. The …
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Shifting Technologies: Neoliberalization of the Welfare State in South Korea, 1997--2001
"This dissertation is about the neoliberal (sinjayujuui ) transformation of South Korean welfare governance at the historical juncture in which the IMF Crisis converged with Kim Dae Jung presidency. I conducted my research as a member of a temporary research team that assisted the Seoul City …
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The Politics of Bread: State Power, Food Subsidies and Neoliberalization in Hashemite Jordan
This dissertation examines the bread subsidy in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. It scrutinizes the socio-political conflicts that surround this policy, the spatial practices that subsume it and the ways in which it is understood and given meaning. Despite repeated attempts by international …
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Cinematic Accounts of a Neoliberal Hong Kong: Post-1997 Urban Cinema and the Human Cost of Neoliberalization
… of society. However benign this rhetoric sounds, neoliberalization has primarily succeeded in securing wealth for capitalist elites through a collusion of state, corporate, and military players and through the manufacturing of dissent through the rhetoric of freedom. Hong Kong is a unique site in …
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The neoliberalization of street vending policy in Lima, Peru: the politics of citizenship. property and public space in the production of a new urban marginality
Neoliberalism is having a significant and global impact on political, social and economic life across spaces. This work illustrates how neoliberalism is attempting to change the ways in which the urban poor - particularly those that participate in street vending - use urban spaces in Lima, Peru. …
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A Comparative Analysis of Islamist Movements in the Neoliberalization Process: Jama’at-e- Islami in Pakistan and the Fethullah Gulen Movement in Turkey — Reactions to Capitalism, Modernity and Secularism
In my research, I will attempt to examine the way in which Neoliberal Capitalist Globalization and economic conditions in the marketplace have shaped and continue to shape the assessment by Islamic groups of modernity, secularism and their place within it as a mutually constitutive process. I will …
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Participatory Alternative Forms of Development, Compared with Orthodox top-down, foreign aid strategies for development in neoliberal Gambia/Africa
… result of the Bretton Woods Institutions and the neoliberalization of Africa, and it juxtaposes the aforementioned with microfinance, as an alternative method for fighting poverty. Empirically, this work examines the potential effectiveness of Reliance Financial Services in Gambia\'s microfinance …
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The Korean Internet Freak Community and Its Cultural Politics, 2002–2011
… process between Internet development and neoliberalization in South Korea, and I will also examine the formation of new subjectivities of Internet users who are also becoming neoliberal subjects. In particular, I examine the culture of the South Korean Internet freak community of …
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[De]stabilizing the neoliberal food regime: the struggle for the defense of corn in Mexico
… Trade Agreement in the context of a process of neoliberalization of its economy. This new framework demanded deep transformations on that country’s forms of production, commercialization, and consumption of food. The transition however, required that Mexicans accept that new order as normal. …
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Child Care on the Cheap: Welfare Reform and the Social Organization of Child Care Work in New York City
… applying a gender lens to processes of urban neoliberalization and an urban lens to feminist political economy analyses of welfare state restructuring and resistance. In New York City, neoliberal welfare reform dramatically increased need and demand for child care, escalating the citys child …
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Acculturation in a community garden: the shifting role of a Hmong garden in eastern Wisconsin
… the interrelated processes of acculturation and neoliberalization have shaped the garden and those who use it. Acculturation is an important determining factor in how members of Sheboygan’s Hmong community perceive the garden and the expansion of neoliberal policy in Sheboygan has been shaped by …
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“It’s a game, you've got to play the game”: Motivation and ‘Being Employable’ in Ontario Unemployment Supports
… provision of employment services, which reflect neoliberalization in funding policy documents. An ethnographic case study was conducted in one agency providing job-seeking assistance and services to unemployed Ontarians in a region experiencing high unemployment. Research methods included …
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Homelessness in Spokane: an inquiry into the experience of homelessness in a mid-sized city
… for examples of large cities. By examining the neoliberalization of large American cities in a capitalist society, I draw out the similarities and differences of how homelessness is manifest and managed in these two different urban contexts. Examined are the societal factors that impact …
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Windows on the World: The Aesthetics of Difference in Neoliberal New York
… I follow the Marxist account of the New York’s neoliberalization, I depart at the point of methodology by taking <em>difference</em> as a critical prism for interpreting urban space and conceiving political options. I make this case in light of writings by the urban ecologist Jane Jacobs, for …
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The Flow of Water, Power, and Ideas: Water Commodification in Cape Town, South Africa and the Stratified Experiences of Time and Space Compression
<p>I use the neoliberalization of the water sector in Cape Town, South Africa in order to test my theory of unequal development. I assert that the neoliberal economic practices of water commodification, business-friendly tariff policies, and prepaid management devices keep people along the …
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'Amageddon': the unholy trinity of class monopoly rent in the Emerald City
… actor operating at multiple scales of neoliberalization. Second, I investigate the potential factors that have helped create the housing affordability crisis using geospatial and statistical modelling techniques to find confirm that the strategies the City employed as they lie in bed …
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Apartheid and resistance in the political economy of gentrification: The dialectics of black working-class struggles in Atlanta, Georgia, 1970-2015
… reorganization. Second, this project argues that neoliberalization and subsequent gentrification in Atlanta served as a structural form of anti-poor black pogrom—the planned destruction or removal of a significant portion of a specifically defined group from a location. I contend that this …
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Cultivating the City: Urban Agriculture and Agrarian Questions in Brooklyn, New York
… question, food geographies, and analyses of neoliberalization. I argue that Brooklyn's urban agriculture is limited by its neoliberal characteristics - that is, an adherence to neoliberalism's emphasis on market mechanisms as central to human well-being - and is thus undermined in helping to …
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