...Jamie Peck; Nik Theodore; Neil Brenner Neoliberal policies, strategies, and rationalities have been further entrenched rather than abandoned in the wake of the 2008-2009 Great Recession. Understanding this state of affairs requires careful reflection on the process of neoliberalization as a crisis...

...Karim Makdisi This essay frames the early promise and energy of Lebanon’s October 2019 uprising, triggered by the government’s announcement of a series of regressive taxes. After fifteen years of civil war (1975–90) and three decades of postwar neoliberal policies, people rose up against...

...-standing capitalist effort to decompose it. This essay first examines the outbreak of social unrest in 2019 that accompanied the failure of neoliberal policies. Second, it explains the absence and silence of the labor movement amid the 2019 revolution by state interference and at the service of a long...

... policies. This essay provides a first-hand account from a scholar, lawyer, and activist central to the recent struggles for the common good and against such neoliberal policies taking place in Italy. © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 References Argentieri Benedetta Cruccu Matteo . 2012...

...Martha Bernal; Ilich Ortiz This article seeks to understand the mass generalized discontent that occurred in Colombia in 2021 by situating it in light of the social and economic effects of the implementation of neoliberal and extractivist policies in recent decades. Those policies have generated...

... neoliberal policies alone, these essays regard it as the culmination of global developments since the 1970s, when a significant break occurred with the social, political, economic, and cultural configura- tion that characterized the decades following World War II. Basic changes included the weakening...

... of the 1955 Freedom Charter, a document that in neoliberal times sounds positively anachronistic) have been abandoned. In its place, the post-apart- heid state agreed to repay apartheid-era debt, odious debt, which should have been written off. A policy of funding development projects through taxes...

... regime, giving rise to a “carceral-assistential complex,” or what Peck ( 2010 ) has referred to as the “ambidextrous state.” Nevertheless, it has been a long-standing challenge among electoral and policy-oriented movement formations to adequately confront the neoliberal state's multifaceted disciplinary...

... pay for your crisis,” opposing neoliberal policies and proposing new forms of democracy. This cycle of struggles has sprung up again powerfully in the Occupy Wall Street movements. One consequence of the conflicts in Wisconsin, Ohio, and Michigan was to bring issues of union organizing...

... on the Latin American Stage Latin America has become an important scene of resistance to neoliberalism, processes of capitalist valorization in the crisis, and the structural adjustment policies imposed by global financial powers. Taking a transnational perspective, beyond any methodological nationalism, we...

... to marronage (76 77, 81). As its name suggests, however, fugitive planning is not a simple return to the stable “xity of a plan for liberation; nor does it uncritically embrace the ungrounded contingency of neoliberal policy. Instead, the rest and gathering of marronage the escape from slavery to establish...

...- ever, what is of interest here is mostly how these problems reappear in more recent Latin American social struggles. In most cases these are not revolu- tionary struggles in the strict sense. They are rather instances of resistance against the implementation of neoliberal policies unleashed...

...Margrit Shildrick The term neoliberalism has appeared in the policies of the Global North for several decades, with the concept of precarity in employment practices coming from the same period. In the last few years, however, precarity has been embodied and personalized, coming to signify not only...

... from the late 1990s to the early 2000s, a key moment for the promotion of an amalgam of microcredit programs. At the peak of structural adjustment, microcredits became the engine that enabled the stabilization of neoliberal policies. The establishment of neolib- eral policies was a process...

... to tackle economic crisis and poverty, have implemented a series of neoliberal legislation, deregulations, and tax and monetary policies to attract techno-capitalists to their respective countries. The policies sociopolitical and economic consequences are hidden within often embellished tropes...

... negotiations on the new constitutional order. Economically, the ANC government has ditched the anticapitalist rhetoric of the anti-apartheid struggle, defends in principle and upholds in practice the institutions of capitalist society, and is implementing orthodox neoliberal economic policies. Politically...

... United Front that will coordinate struggles in the workplace and in communities, in a way similar to the UDF [United Democratic Front] of the 1980s. The task of this front will be to fight for the implementation of the Freedom Charter and be an organizational weapon against neoliberal policies...

... Andean lagoons in the region, gen- erating the largest and most important socio-environmental conflict thus far under that government. Development through Neoliberal Adjustment It was the Fujimori dictatorship, beginning in 1992, that imposed neoliberal policies on Peru with the expansion...

... of the shower as a secret voting chamber depoliticizes the water crisis that is worsening in the country, due, in large part, to the neoliberal's policy of private water rights: the “dream” of a long shower in one's own house operates as the denial of the water crisis and the revolt's denunciations against...

... of the Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca (APPO) and the Sección 22 del Sindicato Nacional de los Trabajadores de la Educación against the continued reign of corruption, brutality, and neoliberal policies that the PRI imposed on state workers and indigenous people in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico...