What are the philosophical and empirical dimensions of the association of neoliberalism with free markets and why are they so hard to shake off? My latest articles argue that we need to dispel the neoliberalism = free markets couplet and re-evaluate how we assess neoliberalism.
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In an anticapitalist spirit, the book Beyond Molotovs. A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies is a collection of 50 first-hand accounts from activists, collectives, movements, artists and scholars from around the world, showing us the creativity to subvert authoritarian ideologies.
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The conjucture of the first few decades of the twenty-first century witnessed Alex Callinicos usefully mapping the contours of imperialism as set out in his pivotal book Imperialism and Global Political Economy. As somewhat of a successor text, this is now accompanied by The New Age of [...]
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During the 2010s, many states across the global South turned decisively to the right. Foreshadowed by the rise of Recep Erdogan in Turkey in the early 2000s, a wave of authoritarian populism swept political figures like Mahinda Rajapaksa, Jair Bolsonaro, Rodrigo Duterte, and Narendra Modi into [...]
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Authoritarian Populism and Bovine Political Economy in Modi’s India takes these invitations seriously as it uses India’s bovine sector – key to the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of rural Indians – as the entry point for analysing capitalist dynamics under Modi’s authoritarian populism.
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In my undergraduate dissertation, titled: An exploration into how neoliberal economic policies have impacted Britain's North - South divide in urban spaces since the 1980s, I explore how Britain’s adoption of neoliberal policies furthered existing urban inequality through an ability to [...]
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Over the past decade, two, intertwined research agendas on international financial subordination (IFS) and subordinate financialization (SF) have proposed to identify how an increasingly finance-dominated global capitalism incorporates the (Semi-)Peripheries. The IFS research agenda [...]
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Görkem Altınörs and Ümit Akçay analyse the political economy of regime change in Turkey. The AKP's 'authoritarian fix' strategy was a response to multiple crises in the 2010s. Now, it has led to an attempt at authoritarian consolidation.
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