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Neoliberal Rationalities in Old and New Nollywood
African Studies Review, 2015Abstract:This article focuses on shifts, or “new waves,” within contemporary African film as sites of struggle and moments of exposure of the divergent forces at work in the struggle. From this perspective, attempts at initiating a new style in commercially oriented storytelling do not so much culminate in a break with previous styles of storytelling ...
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Contestatory Cosmopolitanism, Neoliberal Rationality and Global Protests
Globalizations, 2016AbstractThis paper starts from the current debate on ‘the post-political condition’ and seeks to assess its implications for our understanding of the nature of the wave of protests since 2011. While such protests have important shared elements as well as local triggers, the argument here is that they highlight the gradual emergence of a contestatory ...
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Start-up nationalism: The rationalities of neoliberal Zionism
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2020This article examines current manifestations of Zionist political-economy by analyzing discourses that frame Israel as a “Start-Up Nation”—that is, a unique economic achievement that offers a successful business model for the world. By focusing on the 2009 book from the Council of Foreign Relations, Start-Up Nation, this article theorizes “neoliberal ...
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From California to Michigan: Race, Rationality, and Neoliberal Governmentality
Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 2010In this essay, we examine recent developments in battles over race- and gender-based affirmative action across a 10-year period from the California Civil Rights Initiative (1996) to the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (2006). While affirmative action policies have historically been contested within a paradigm of redistribution, our analysis of the ...
Bradley Jones, Roopali Mukherjee
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Neoliberalism, Rationality, and the Savage Slot
2019This chapter upends usual discussions of neoliberal governmentality by focusing on the relation of neoliberalism to the irrational. The central task of neoliberalism in its early days was to resurrect a discredited liberalism. WW I and the problematic Versailles Peace of 1919 convinced many that irrationality lay at the core of the “civilized” European
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Governing development: neoliberalism, microcredit, and rational economic woman
Economy and Society, 2001This paper addresses the emergence of microcredit programmes as a preferred strategy for poverty alleviation world-wide. Taking the paradigmatic case of Nepal, it engages a genealogical approach to trace how Nepalese planners' enduring concerns about rural development intersect in surprising (and gendered) ways with donors' present focus on deepening ...
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Made to escape: How the neoliberal rationality changed consumer escape
Journal of Consumer Behaviour, 2023AbstractCurrent research on consumer escape is characterized by a paradox: when seeking to escape the structures, pressures, and obligations of modern life, consumers end up reinforcing the same structure that caused the desire to escape. We propose that this paradox can be explained by a connection between consumer escape and the neoliberal ...
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New Zealand’s neoliberal generation: tracing discourses of economic (ir)rationality
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 2007Young New Zealanders currently in transition to post‐school lives have grown up during a period of intensive neoliberal reform, the speed and scope of which was unprecedented in Western economies. The authors explore how New Zealand’s neoliberal generation craft their identities in the transition years, making sense of their educational and employment ...
Karen Nairn, Jane Higgins
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Critical Studies in Media Communication, 2019
Research into the effects of neoliberalism on American news media has found many trends to help explain the market-based changes to news media production over the past few decades.
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Research into the effects of neoliberalism on American news media has found many trends to help explain the market-based changes to news media production over the past few decades.
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Neoliberalism and rationality: a tango for two?
Critique, 2021Theofanis Papageorgiou +2 more
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