Dissertations / Theses: 'Neoliberal development'

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Gamso, Jonas. "Political Economy of Ecuador in the Neoliberal Era of Development." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1271434106.

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Christiansen, William Thomas. "Challenging Neoliberal Conditionality: Tracing IMF Lending Policies from 2007-2012." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/23266.

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The conditionality agreements of the International Monetary Fund have received a significant amount of criticism from the 1980s and 1990s and into the 2000s. Critics have found little reassurance from the IMF\'s attempts to reform conditionality after 2000. The 1980s marked a time where conditionality on IMF loans required structural adjustment and the imposition of austere fiscal measures. The streamlining initiative in 2000 possessed only slight quantitative modification to lending conditionality. However, recent changes in the Fund\'s lending policy occuring between 2007 and 2012 may finally display the institution\'s ability to listen, learn, and adapt policy toward a conditionality regime utilizing policy outside of the neoliberal framework. This thesis examines these new policies and their implications for neoliberalism where the term represents an approach to economic growth that demands privatization, deregulation, and weakening the role of the public sector. It provides a history of conditionality reforms and positions the most recent reforms in lending policy in the evolving neoliberal context.
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Johnston, Duncan. "Neoliberal Influence on Student-Athlete Developments: a Critical Narrative." The Ohio State University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu161764806905685.

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Chan, Anita Say. "The promiscuity of freedom : development and governance in the age of neoliberal networks." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45804.

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Thesis (Ph. D. in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society (HASTS))--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology and Society, 2008.
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This study brings together science and technology studies, political anthropology, and Latin American studies, by studying the practices and political reasoning of neoliberal networks in Peru. It analyses the extension of such networks by studying the relationships and subjectivities cultivated under two contemporary state-led projects: an initiative promoting intellectual property rights among traditional artisans as tools for rural development, and a national effort to encourage the uptake of free/libre and open source software based resources. Promising to modernize government and prepare citizens for the global, information-based economy, these projects frame their reforms as new, contemporary models for economic development. This work demonstrate how key to the success of such projects is the remaking of rural and urban citizens into "free" and modern individuals who are able to independently self- realize using the tools and logics of information networks. It argues that such plans rely on the ability to bring diverse actors - including state planners, transnational corporations, traditional artisans, rural communities, urban technology experts, and transnational activists -- into strategic alliance, or what can become coded as relations of promiscuity. What brings these partnerships together and seduces such disparate actors into alliance isn't so much the promise of increased technology access. It is instead the promise of "freedom" and the opportunity for diversely situated subjects to realize themselves as "modern individuals."
by Anita Say Chan.
Ph.D.in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society (HASTS

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Segal, Talia. "Rapid Urbanization in Istanbul: Sustainable Neoliberal Growth or Authoritarian Consolidations of Power?" Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1010.

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The Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP) has had a political hegemony over Istanbul for more than a decade. Initiating rapid rates of development, the Turkish economy has nearly quadrupled under AKP leadership. The political party has also become notorious, though, for moving further away from a liberal democracy. Flirting with authoritarianism, recent governance trends include a weak rule of law, stringent social policies, extralegal policy execution, and substantial censorship. While Istanbul closely aligns with several emerging urban centers, the factors contributing to its patterns of growth are unique to both Turkish history and culture, and the city’s strategic regional position. Through a proposed self-sustaining cycle of neoliberal policy implementation, followed by institutional and political consolidation, the AKP has managed to maintain control of new engines for growth while facing increasing pushback from the residents of Istanbul. Though the past few years have been marked by unprecedented development, weaknesses in the AKP’s institutional structure are beginning to show. Istanbul is on the brink of an economic downfall. The government needs to take immediate action against a massive urban crisis if it wants to sustain legitimacy of authority. In leveraging the strategic location of the city, international institutions must partake in shifting Istanbul towards a more sustainable trajectory of urban growth.

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Tobin, Sarah A. "Microfinance in Neoliberal Times: The Experience of an Egyptian NGO." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0001294.

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Öbom, Alexander. "NEW ROADS TAKEN BY FEW : Motorcycle-taxi drivers and neoliberal development in rural Uganda." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-385161.

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Kisoro, a rural district in Uganda, is undergoing various transformations which could be summarized under the term neoliberal development. This qualitative study, which is based on six weeks of anthropological fieldwork, is focused on how a few individuals working as motorcycle-taxi drivers in the area experience these transformations, and how they deal with them. The results indicate that while they tend to describe them as “development”, they see them as constituting an uneven form of development - not beneficial to all, something which, in their view, makes this development less genuine. It is commonly associated with various “others”; carried out by and for others, while the informants have to live off the leftovers from it, were the motorcycle-taxi job is seen as such a leftover; neither enabling much upward - nor geographical - mobility. In some cases, they feel included in transformations which makes things worse, so it all constitutes not only a limited, but a somehow distorted development, and there is nostalgia around better pasts. But simultaneously, many also feel free, and as their hopes for inclusion in a genuine development erodes while they wait for it, inspiration from an external world makes them strive for a more individualized prosperity.

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Otten, Justin Michael. "The neoliberal katastrofa : privatisation, development and a changing economy in Macedonia's Tikveš wine region." Thesis, University of Kent, 2015. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/48413/.

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This thesis draws upon anthropological fieldwork carried out in 2010–11 in the Tikveš wine region of the Republic of Macedonia. Unlike most other countries of the former Eastern Bloc, Macedonia’s post-socialist transition was held off due to the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. The result is that a slower, more subtle shift has occurred there yet it has been one guided by neoliberal principles, thus significantly altering the livelihoods of the country’s inhabitants. My research in Tikveš illustrates the role privatisation (privatizacija, a term known and used locally) is playing in the region’s transition from government to private ownership and production, specifically in the wine industry. Although the quality and selection of wine in Tikveš has improved, the lives of the independent grape growers and their families have not. Instead, the growers have been subject to the leverage of the winery owners—who have reduced and delayed payments to them—while a neoliberalised government has taken a laissez-faire approach to market regulation. Combined with EU accession development policy, this thesis therefore focuses on how individuals in the region are both protesting and adapting to the change at hand through rearranging their livelihoods and work. Indeed, grape growers have been left with a surplus of grapes and a dearth of income and certainty, inciting some to produce vast quantities of homemade rakija (brandy) while others replace, abandon or sell their vineyards. New ways of bringing in income, such as selling one’s brandy, produce or homemade goods are also modes of survival. Yet many claim that is all they are doing, merely ‘surviving, not living’. An argument is thus made that there is a return to the peasantry. Such repeasantisation is a process whereby the focus of economic activity becomes further centred on households and the pooling of family resources drawn from working the land and engaging in non-professional types of work. This form of repeasantisation is essentially that increasing numbers of individuals are not only working their small plots of land to provide produce for their family and for sale, but that in replacing the employment and income once provide by the state they are engaging in petty trade and precarious employment when it can be found. The thesis is comprised of six chapters, with an introduction and conclusion as well.

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Hartmann, Christopher David. "Public Health, Environment, and Development in Nicaragua and Latin America: A Post/neoliberal Perspective." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1467220236.

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Mueller-Hirth, Natascha. "Freedom betrayed : NGOs and the challenges of Neoliberal development in the post-apartheid era." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.517889.

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Atalan-Helicke, Nurcan. "The Seeds of Change: The State, The Politics of Development and Conservation in Neoliberal Turkey." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1292853193.

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Njie, Sulayman. "Participatory Alternative Forms of Development, Compared with Orthodox top-down, foreign aid strategies for development in neoliberal Gambia/Africa." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/51045.

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This study explores the problems facing the African continent in general and Gambia in particular. Specifically, it examines The Gambia\'s dependence on foreign aid, as a 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 institution who are engaged in this burgeoning enterprise and that of the VISACAS, a grassroots microfinance organization in The Gambia.
Master of Public and International Affairs

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Tesler, Laura Eve. ""Now There is No Treatment for Anyone": Health Care Seeking in Neoliberal Nicaragua." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194945.

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Over the course of the twentieth century, the quality, quantity and accessibility of health care services in Nicaragua were remarkably altered in accordance with the agendas of stakeholders in the national government and providers of "development aid", many of whose objectives were as much or more political as they were humanitarian. Much of the international health literature has focused on sociocultural factors that impact health care seeking, yet little research has been conducted on the political economic dimensions. This dissertation examines how sociocultural factors, political economy and social relations interacted in health care seeking decision-making among 50 poor and lower-middle-income households in Nicaragua, a country with high rates of poverty, child morbidity and child mortality. Attending to the ways that global and national policies were experienced in a local setting, the study provides an in-depth analysis of health care services in a country that has undergone three major regime changes within the last 25 years. How did the ideology of each regime influence health care, and how did the state influence both health staff and the lay population, especially with regards to people's expectations and understandings of the allocation of responsibility for health?The data indicate that health care services have significantly worsened during the recent years of neoliberal-oriented governance, concordant with an increase in economic insecurity. In conjunction with these macro-level processes, conditions of poverty have undermined people's ability to maintain longstanding reciprocal exchange relations and health care responsibilities. In ideology and praxis, the struggle between an ethos of solidarity and cooperation, versus one of individual competition and self-preservation, was engaged on a daily basis within and across extended households of kin, as well as between and among health care seekers and practitioners. Local level efforts to make up for the gap in government responsibility were limited precisely because the policies implemented by the government and international bodies undermined them. Neither the state nor civil society currently possesses the capacity to meet the basic health needs of the majority of Nicaraguans. For communities to thrive, the state must restore its safety net of health and other basic services.

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Lubliner, Paul Brandon. "Exploring the impact of neoliberal economic development on poverty in Costa Rica : what went wrong? /." view abstract or download text of file, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/2746.

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Wallin, Sara. "Gender politics in neoliberal governance : the case of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2015. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/12072/.

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This thesis is about the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and its role and strategies in the governance of gender relations. Constructing a feminist political economy approach, the thesis examines the process of developing and implementing policies on gender mainstreaming, as it relates to wider processes of institutional change and economic innovation at the EBRD. The central argument made throughout the thesis is that the objective of gender equality has been co-opted to support the EBRD’s policies and strategies for market expansion.

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Gallagher, Andrew. "Cultivating Social Capital in Thessaloniki : Contesting neoliberal governance on Urban Agricultural Gardens." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-353380.

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The economic crisis of 2008 and subsequent implementation of austerity policies in Greece has had profound negative socio-economic impacts on Greek citizens. One way people seek to improve their socio-economic conditions is through participation in community organisations that have been studied for their ability to provide access to resources and representation. Through the application of a conceptual framework that connects the concepts of Social Capital and empowerment, this thesis investigates in what ways participation in Urban Agricultural Gardens (UAGs) in Thessaloniki benefits citizens. Specifically, the research aims to identify in what ways the formation of social relationships on these organisations produces and distributes Social Capital and whether this has empowering effects on individuals. The research positions itself within an ongoing discussion in what is referred to as a ‘neoliberal transition’, where in the last two decades social movements have increasingly contested forms of neoliberal governance and sought alternative forms of social organisation. Using empirical data from two Urban Agricultural Gardens in Thessaloniki, this thesis further investigates in what ways citizen empowerment may lead to contestations of neoliberal governance. While Social Capital was found to be generated at both organisations, there were differences in the ways it was produced and distributed. Stronger social ties were formed at PERKA due to an organisational structure that was conducive to social interaction. Similarly, narratives of contestation were found to be intensified by the physical and ideational practices at the organisation.

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Lee, Steckley L. "Rules, regulations, and rebellions the struggle for human rights in an era of neoliberal trade and development /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0014920.

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Dillon-Sumner, Laurel Dawn. "Cultivating Change: Negotiating Development and Public Policy in Southern California's Wine Country." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5007.

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In the Temecula Valley, California, neoliberal development policies were implemented that had the potential to bring drastic changes to this semi-rural area, renowned for its wine production and idyllic setting as a wine tourism destination. In order to better understand the contested nature of these development plans, I conducted ethnographic and key informant interviews and public policy analysis research with policy-making officials, local residents and other stakeholding groups that formed in opposition to the planned expansion. This applied anthropology of policy was uniquely situated to explore the tensions between various stakeholders. This thesis serves to propose interventions that could have the intended impacts of the expansion plan, which included increasing tourism and bolstering the economy, while preserving the qualities that made the Temecula Valley marketable and consumable as a wine tourism destination. Bringing together diverse fields of study including economics, tourism and environmental anthropology, this thesis sheds light on policy making processes in the 21st century United States.

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Nayak, Bhabani Shankar. "Neoliberal Political Economy of Development in India The Impact of New Economic Reforms on Tribals in Kalahandi Orissa." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.507008.

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Whitelum, Bernadette, and bernadette_whitelum@ausaid gov au. "Rhetoric and Reality in the World Banks Relations with NGOs: an Indonesian Case Study." The Australian National University. Faculty of Arts, 2003. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20040804.140004.

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The World Bank is one of the most powerful institutions in the world. And it is charged with some of the worlds most important goals, at least in rhetoric. The World Banks mission is A World Free of Poverty. World Bank rhetoric now sees the institution embrace such goals as poverty alleviation, environmental sustainability, gendermainstreaming, good governance, and partnerships for development. These claims demand critical analysis so that the reality of the Banks agenda and work can be deciphered from its rhetoric. To that end, this research critically examines the World Banks rhetoric and strategies for engaging NGOs in what it describes as a partnership for development.¶ The World Bank, in the past two decades, has been at the receiving end of an increasing critical commentary, much of which emerges from the Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs). In response the World Bank has started opening its doors, slowly at first, and then with increasing rigour, the Bank sought to intensify its dialogue with NGOs. Its tone is conciliatory towards NGOs, giving the appearance of an institution that is willing to learn, willing to be moved, and willing to transform itself.¶ This thesis analyses literature and primary research gathered from fieldwork experience in Indonesia. In exploring the case study I unearth the ways in which the continuing neoliberal development agenda of the World Bank drives its NGO engagement strategies. I discuss questions such as, do dialogues with NGOs produce change to the World Bank and its development agenda, and if so then what is the nature of those changes? Might the building of relations with the World Bank cause NGOs and their agendas to be transformed whilst the Bank remains relatively unchanged? What is the gendered context of the relationship and how does this reinforce unequal relationships? The Indonesian case study provides the terrain upon which these questions will be explored. Exploring these questions makes evident what can be expected from the World Bank of its engagement with NGOs, in process and outcome. This, in turn, illuminates the agendas open for change and transformation at the Bank, the contested agendas, and the fundamental, non-negotiable and immutable agendas. In conclusion, this thesis reflects on the possibilities for change in the future.

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Marandet, Elodie. "Governing through freedom, ruling at a distance : neoliberal governmentality and the new aid architecture in the AIDS response in Malawi." Thesis, Brunel University, 2012. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7657.

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In this thesis, I critically analyse power relations between donors and the government of Malawi (GoM) under the new aid architecture and argue that this new configuration represents a shift away from domination, with donors attempting to impose policies, and towards more subtle interactions, through which donors seek to transform the GoM into a self-disciplined, entrepreneurial, neoliberal subject by shaping its aspirations and promoting specific norms of conduct, ‘truths’ and policy-related techniques. The research focuses on funding for AIDS and draws on forty interviews with representatives from the GoM, donors and civil society, conducted in Malawi 2008, as well as discursive analysis of secondary sources. I use Foucault’s concept of governmentality, a form of productive power focused on the care of the population and working through individuals’ subjectivities, and extend it to the relation between donors and the GoM. I show that the agency of the GoM is both elicited by the principle of country ownership, and re-worked through the increased involvement of donors in the policy sphere. I explore how these interactions are legitimised by a discourse that presents donors and the GoM as equals, while casting the GoM as technically deficient and requiring donors’ intervention. I analyse how donors instrumentalise dialogue with the GoM to instil an ethos of self-responsibility.I also investigate how AIDS funding has been made reliant on public financial management reforms, which re-code social domains according to an economic logic, by subordinating government activities to macroeconomic imperatives and creating new undemocratic accountabilities based on market rationalities. I argue that by restructuring the GoM according to this neoliberal rationality, the new aid architecture has programmatic effects, allowing donors to rule at a distance. I also examine avenues for resistance, particularly the potential residing in the intrinsic contradictions of this rationality.

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Addie, Jean-Paul David. "Geographies of Neoliberal Regulation and the Everyday Urban Experience: A Case Study of Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1153950131.

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Smirnova, Vera. "Urban systems dynamics and emergent morphologies under the neoliberal socio-economic restructuring: Moscow and Shenzhen as case studies." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/17823.

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Master of Science
Department of Architecture
R. Todd Gabbard
In recent years urban planners have seen critical changes in the scales, pace, and trends of urbanization, resulting in suppressed urban patterns and the emergence of distinctive types of urban dynamics. A possible interpretation of this process is that it represents a “radical socio-spatial restructuring under the regime of global neoliberalization”, a phenomenon that is being widely discussed by many influential planners, urban geographers, and sociologists. My overarching research agenda is to develop a new analytical framework for comparative quantitative analyses of neoliberal urbanization pressures that cause the emergence of distinct patters of urban dynamics and morphologies. By comparing different experiences of ongoing urban transformations around the world and studying the mechanisms of their emergence, we can identify contemporary trends, monitor critical changes and shape a better future for our cities. Using China as a basis of comparison, my thesis seeks to challenge the unproductive and homogeneous patterns of urban dynamics that emerged during neoliberalization in Russia. The controversial and extremely heterogeneous model of Chinese urbanization cannot be applied universally, but valuable lessons can be derived. My work aims to explore specifics of two different patterns of neoliberal transitions in Moscow (Russia) and Shenzhen (China) in 1992 and 1978 respectively. By focusing on detailed scales of restructuring of urban settlement typologies I identify the characteristics of socio-spatial patterns prior to confronting the transition and its resulting outcomes. While considering potential context specific properties of East Asian urbanization, I am making an attempt to extrapolate this vernacular experience into generalized theory. Connecting and quantifying local and global dimensions of urban transformations helps me build a comprehensive theoretical and quantitative framework for a more profound understanding of ongoing socio-spatial restructuring.

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Panicker, Ajaykumar P. "Counter-Hegemonic Collective Action and the Politics of Civil Society: The Case of a Social Movement in Kerala, India, in the Context of Neoliberal Globalization." Scholarly Repository, 2008. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/107.

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Social movements in various parts of the world have been attempting to challenge the forces of neoliberal globalization and the social problems caused by this economic trend. Many such movements have been advancing the idea of global civil society in order to counter 'globalization from above'. Despite the efforts of these movements to democratize social relations, the domination of these powerful forces persist and result in further oppression of marginalized people. This study attempts to discover the reasons why these social movements and civil society, despite popular support, fail to challenge effectively the power of such social forces. In particular, this study analyzes, through in-depth interviews with activists, and archival and observational data, the world-view of civil society activists in a movement against Coca-Cola initiated by the marginalized people in Kerala, India. While this struggle, popularly called the 'Plachimada movement', managed to effect the temporary closure of a Coca-Cola plant, whose operation reportedly affected the ground water in the region, the local people felt that it failed to address their conditions of marginality. The analysis of the movement's processes finds that hegemony, or indirect forms of domination, often stands in the way of such efforts at democratic social change. The study concludes with suggestions for rethinking civil society as an arena of reflexive collective action that is counter-hegemonic.

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Walter, Mareile. "Making Plans - Telling Stories : Planning in Karlskrona/Sweden 1980 - 2010." Doctoral thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för planering och mediedesign, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-00554.

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The aim of this thesis is to understand how a repertoire of municipal planning narratives evolved and how these were used as a means to explain, legitimise and produce change in a city that went through a process of urban transformation. The focus is set on the role of narratives in municipal plans as a mental preparation for change. In order to reach this aim, a framework for narrative analysis is developed that shall facilitate a critical reading of such municipal planning documents as comprehensive plans. This shall help to understand among other things how place and community are constructed. This framework is used to interpret four documents of the municipality of Karlskrona, one introductory guide for new inhabitants from 1980, and three consecutive comprehensive plans, adopted in 1991, 2002 and 2010. In short, the narrative analysis consists of four different ways of reading each respective document. First, more or less coherent narratives are identified in the texts. Second, they are analysed with respect to their literary and rhetoric form, in a way that is inspired by historian and literary theorist Hayden White. A third reading places the documents’ narratives into their historical context. Finally, they are classified as certain narratives of place identity on the basis of a typology developed by sociologist Manuel Castells. He states that identities can be constructed with help of narratives that legitimise the existing societal structures, that stand in opposition to these structures, or that create a new identity out of available resources. Based on these readings, I find that the four documents use very different literary and rhetorical forms and that they construct the place’s identity in ways clearly distinct from each other. They express various moral and political perspectives and convey clearly distinct social norms regarding the role of inhabitants and the municipality. Over the decades, there has been a clear shift of expressed values from those that support a leading role of the (local) state in fostering local development to those that highlight the importance of market actors and market forces. A similar change has occurred from the pronunciation of state responsibility for the inhabitant’s well-being to a greater focus on individual responsibility. This confirms the notion that municipal planning is increasingly influenced by ideas of neoliberal development. It could also be observed that storytelling and a purposeful narrative construction of place identity have become more prominent as instruments of planning. Planning narratives were clearly used to explain and legitimise shifts or persistence in municipal policymaking. Due to this it can be concluded that in the eyes of local policy makers, the municipality seems to have gone through a complete process of urban transformation from being in a state of decline to one of stabilised growth.

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Liljedahl, Johansson Linn. "A case study of tourism policies around Satpura Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh : Development trough neoliberal governmentality, inclusion and or not for local communities?" Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-68260.

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This is a case study of tourism policies made around the Satpura Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh, India. The purpose of this study is to analyse the state tourism policies in Madhya Pradesh. The study is divided in two parts, the first part analyses the state tourism policies using Foucault’s governmentality theory. The governmentality theory is used to expose the ideas in the policies with consideration to neoliberalism and the local communities. The first part also examine the ideas of inclusion of the local communities in tourism. The second part are interviews with officials and semi-officials that are implementing the policies. The local communities are the focus in this study since tourism is marketed as a solution to economic growth and employment. Therefore, one of the aspects is if the local communities are a resource in the development of tourism, and if there is any obstacles for the local communities to participate in the tourism industry. The material used is state tourism policies from 2005 and 2016. Interviews were conducted in Pachmarhi, Madhai, Soghagpur, Pipariya and Bhopal. The conclusion is that the state tourism policy from 2016 is clearly neo-liberal that the market and the government is clearly in concurrence. When it comes to the local communities the main problem for participation is that most of the local communities lack of skills, however the type of tourism were the local communities could be beneficiaries is not the tourism that the state government is developing.

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Hannant, Stefanie Victoria. "Voluntourism and the neoliberal market : an investigation into the use of voluntourists as a development tool and as the primary care-givers of vulnerable children in Mexican communities." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2015. http://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/voluntourism-and-the-neoliberal-market(32054858-1254-4c62-a412-223f1e2ff1d5).html.

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The volunteer tourism sector has undergone a rapid commercialisation through its induction into the neoliberal market, with sending organisations advertising volunteering placements with defined sets of marketable commodities in an attempt to capture their market share. These include individualised educational experiences, the opportunity to ‘do’ development through working with vulnerable children, and a vacation that combines elements of adventure and exoticism, altruism and hedonism. Mexico is the archetypal volunteer destination, and its Jalisco district provides the contextual setting for this research. Framed by literature on neoliberalism, development and care, this thesis set out to explore how voluntourists are negotiating their position as caregivers in the context of marketised voluntourism and care within the neoliberal landscape of voluntourism in Mexico. Over nine months of field work, participant observations and interviews were conducted with various local residents, volunteers and the staff members of three different orphanages and organisations. Each organisation was chosen for their diverse positioning within the shallow commercial voluntourism sector. Findings demonstrate that organisational management and operations have been affected by the increasing neoliberalisation of voluntourism, thus creating a precarious balance between commerce and philanthropic virtue. The commercial approach adopted by the organisations has depoliticised and simplified the framing of development, creating a shallow and superficial engagement with the issues surrounding poverty. This neoliberal and depoliticised approach has also highlighted the colonial underpinnings of the sector, which affects the perceptions, relationships and power dynamics between agents. It is hoped that this analysis presents a more holistic picture of voluntourism, providing some much needed empirical evidence of the influence intense commercial and social pressures are having on the imaginaries of voluntourism produced by the organisations, and in turn how this shapes the voluntourists’ negotiation of their subjectivities and subsequently, how this is affecting the care environment provided to vulnerable children.

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Sandberg, Nilsson Hanna. "Olika - eller - lika : "Våra stadsdelar ser olika ut och det är bra"Framställningen av norra och södra Botkyrka genom kommunalt områdesbaserat utvecklingsarbete." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för historia och samtidsstudier, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-35808.

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In this qualitative ethnological study I explore the local development work undertaken by the municipal Botkyrka, located south of Stockholm. The material is primarily based on the municipals development programs and interviews with officials from the municipal working with local development. Their work is primarily based on achieving sustainable development in various problem areas such as education, unemployment, urban environment, climate change. My aim was to investigate how a municipality, with a declared focus on the benefits of diversity, that at the same time struggles with unequality (in regard to ethnic segregation and disparities in income, education, employment, housing and health), through its local development work presented its different districts. Guided by discourse analysis and postcolonial theory I focused on how the citizens in the districts where portrayed and how the physical and natural environment in these where described. The result shows that the municipal through its local development work is differentiating the districts and their citizens by adopting neoliberal labour market and housing policies, reproducing urban planning ideals and ideas regarding national beloning.

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När man tänker på Botkyrka kommun, söder om Stockholm, är det nog främst till norra Botkyrka associationerna går. Miljonprogramsområdena och röda linjens tunnelbanestationer Alby, Fittja, Norsborg och Hallunda. Eller kanske har man hört sloganen ”Långt ifrån lagom” och vet att kommunen är en av Sveriges mest blandade vad gäller befolkningens ursprung. Men Botkyrka består också av en södra halva och här ligger områdena Tumba, Tullinge, Vårsta och Grödinge. Inte lika kända och inte heller på samma självklara sätt kopplade till Botkyrka som de ovan nämnda områdena i norr.

I min studie har jag undersökt hur Botkyrka kommun arbetar med områdesbaserad utveckling i sina kommundelar. Utgångspunkten för min analys är själva basen i detta arbete: kommundelarnas långsiktiga utvecklingsprogram. När jag samlade materialet till denna studie fanns tre sådana program framtagna, ett för Alby, ett för Tullinge och ett för Fittja. I dessa program formuleras de viktigaste nyckelområden som varje kommundel behöver arbeta kring för att uppnå en hållbar och långsiktig utveckling. Det intressanta med dessa program och det arbete som dessa föranleder är det skillnadsskapande som görs mellan norra och södra Botkyrka. I Fittja och Alby kretsar arbetet kring medborgarnas utbildning och sysselsättning samt områdenas stadsmiljöer. I Tullinge är målen: att utveckla och säkra områdets kvaliteter, att utveckla dialogen med medborgarna och att möjliggöra att leva klimatsmart.

Genom att titta på hur områdena och de människor som befolkar dem beskrivs i utvecklingsprogrammen och hur de kommunala tjänstemän som arbetar med detta förhåller sig till dessa frågor har jag utifrån en diskursanalytisk och postkolonial ansats kommit fram till att det områdesbaserad utvecklingsarbetet i Botkyrka kommun är del i en politisk och samhällelig åskådning som särskiljer platser och människor. Det områdesbaserade utvecklingsarbetet medverkar därmed till att reproducera bilden av den problematiska invandrarförorten och det idylliska villasamhället. Framställningarna som görs i mitt material visar hur kommunen positionerar sina kommundelar i relation till varandra. Tullinge utgör det oproblematiska, normativa och osynliga medan Alby och Fittja representeras av problembilder, det annorlunda och hjälpbehövande. Kommunen marknadsför sig som en progressiv aktör som arbetar för mångfald och mänskliga rättigheter, emot rasism och diskriminering samtidigt som man genom det områdesbaserad arbetet är delaktig i stigmatiseringen av platserna och människorna i norra Botkyrka.

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Eken, Tugce. "Gentrification In Fener Balat Neighborhoods: The Role Of Involved Actors." Master's thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612732/index.pdf.

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Gentrification emerged as a middle-class interest in renovating houses in old city cores. The process changed in parallel with the economic and political restructuring during the last decade. In this period, urban regeneration became an urban strategy used by the local governments as well as a mask for gentrification. It aimed at restructuring the urban land in line with the preferences of wealthier groups rather than the social needs of existing residents. The governments intend to remove poor images of cities through the displacement of poor inhabitants. This, in turn, increases the risk of dilapidating the authenticity of the existing social, cultural, and historic fabric of the regeneration areas. Against this trend, international conservation agencies promote rehabilitation projects to benefit existing communities of historic neighborhoods. In line with the international declarations, they intend to rehabilitate socio-economic conditions of long term inhabitants along with the conservation of historic heritage. Accordingly, the unique architecture of Fener and Balat neighborhoods has been the focus of international efforts during the last decade. Besides, the neighborhoods attracted the local governments&rsquo
interest and were declared as urban regeneration area in 2006. In this regard, thesis intends to compare Rehabilitation of Fener Balat Districts Program (RFBDP) based on the partnership of Fatih Municipality and EU and Fener Balat Neighborhoods Regeneration Project (FBNRP) based on a model of Fatih Municipality and private sector partnership, with a focus on conserving existing communities and preventing displacement.

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Hossoé, Heric Santos. "O PROGRAMA DE DESENVOLVIMENTO DE FORNECEDORES DO ESTADO DO MARANHÃO (PDF-MA) EM QUESTÃO: Avaliando os processos de formulação e implementação de 1999 a 2007." Universidade Federal do Maranhão, 2013. http://tedebc.ufma.br:8080/jspui/handle/tede/857.

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This dissertation focuses the formulation and implementation of the Supplier Development Program of the State of Maranhão. It is worth noting that this program emerges the need of big business and the state to offer a response to local entrepreneurs and society in order to integrate them into the supply chains of large companies. However, to this end, we draw the path from the change in the economy, taking as starting point the private sector, which adopts the restructuring process as this new flagship model, the unbundling of the leading chains of large companies, mainly through outsourcing, thus generating a strategy of regional specialization. Given these changes, turns to examine the paradigm in relation to the State, which is undergoing deep changes, culminating with the so-called Minimum or Neoliberal State. It should be emphasized that the evaluation of the MA-developed PDF is dynamic and want to go from the general international economic relations, through the reflections of these relations in Brazil, reaching the more specific, the program exposed. Finally, the study of the PDF-MA aims to detail the dynamics of the program, building a framework of indicators and developing the theme of Sustainable Development. To undertake such research were two moments evaluative, first we make a political assessment of the policy, so you can figure out the nuances and how its implementation was determined politically, understanding how the program came into the government's agenda and what subjects interest and rationalities involved. In the second, reveals the dynamics of implementation of this policy through an evaluation process, ensuring that the means used are appropriate to the desired ends and if it was able to change the situation that gave rise to the problem program. Along the way, we used a qualitative and quantitative approach, having as research techniques, literature and documentary mode. Thus, we intend to unveil a new vision for the PDF-MA.
Esta dissertação tem como objeto a formulação e a implementação do Programa de Desenvolvimento de Fornecedores do Estado do Maranhão. Vale destacar, que este programa emerge da necessidade das grandes empresas e do Estado de oferecerem uma resposta para os empresários locais e a sociedade no sentido de integra-lós às cadeias produtivas das grandes empresas. No entanto, para atingir essa finalidade, traça-se o caminho a partir da mudança na economia, tendo como ponto inicial o setor privado, que adota a reestruturação produtiva como carro chefe desse novo modelo, levando à desverticalização das cadeias das grandes empresas, principalmente por meio da terceirização, gerando, assim, uma estratégia de especialização regional. Dadas essas transformações, volta-se para analisar o paradigma em relação ao Estado, que passa por profundas alterações, culminando com o denominado Estado Mínimo ou Neoliberal. É necessário ressaltar que a avaliação do PDF-MA desenvolvida é dinâmica e pretende ir desde o geral, as relações econômicas internacionais, passando pelos reflexos dessas relações no Brasil, chegando ao mais específico, o programa exposto. Enfim, no estudo do PDF-MA pretende-se detalhar a dinâmica do programa, construindo um quadro de indicadores e desenvolvendo a temática do Desenvolvimento Sustentável. Para empreender tal investigação ocorreram dois momentos avaliativos, primeiro faz-se uma avaliação política da política, para que seja possível perceber quais as nuances e como foi determinado politicamente sua implementação, entendendo como o programa entrou na agenda do governo e quais os sujeitos, interesses e racionalidades envolvidas. No segundo, desvenda-se a dinâmica de implementação dessa política pública, por meio de uma avaliação de processo, verificando se os meios utilizados estão adequados aos fins desejados e se este foi capaz de alterar a situação problema que deu origem ao programa. Nesse percurso, utilizou-se de uma abordagem qualitativa e quantitativa, tendo como técnicas de pesquisa, a modalidade documental e a bibliográfica. Dessa forma, pretende-se descortinar uma nova visão sobre o PDF-MA.

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Portes, Mônica da Conceição de Oliveira. "Educação corporativa como política pública: a ação do Ministério do Desenvolvimento, Indústria e Comércio Exterior." EPSJV, 2010. https://www.arca.fiocruz.br/handle/icict/8901.

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Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Escola Politécnica de Saúde Joaquim Venâncio. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Profissional em Saúde.
Esta pesquisa analisou a incorporação da Educação Corporativa como uma política pública situada no âmbito do Ministério do Desenvolvimento, Indústria e Comércio Exterior. Esta análise considerou o período de 2003 a 2009, momento em que Luís Inácio “Lula” da Silva ocupou a Presidência da República (2003-2010). A expansão das unidades de Educação Corporativa vem sendo considerada uma “revolução silenciosa” nas empresas brasileiras. Há muitos estudos não-críticos, com base na teoria do capital humano/ capital intelectual que defendem a implantação de unidades de educação corporativa, entretanto, poucos são os estudos que procuram analisar este fenômeno sob a luz das reformas de ajuste estrutural, especialmente aquelas advindas do cumprimento da agenda das políticas neoliberais. Este estudo investigou esta proposta numa perspectiva crítico-emancipatória, analisando seu contexto de surgimento, sua influência e impacto na formação do trabalhador. A educação profissional em saúde estando inserida neste movimento maior das políticas e propostas de formação e qualificação dos trabalhadores é fortemente influenciada pelos processos de reestruturação mais amplos com desdobramentos significativos na prática profissional.
This research examined the incorporation of Corporate Education as a public politic located in the extend of the Ministry of Development, Industry and External Trade. This analysis considered the period from 2003 to 2009, when Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva held the presidency (2003-2010). The expansion of the unit Corporate Education has been considered a "silent revolution" in Brazilian companies. There are many non-critical studies, based on human capital theory / intellectual capital that favor the deployment of units of corporate education, however, there are few studies to examine this phenomenon in light of structural adjustment reforms, especially those coming compliance with the agenda of neoliberal politics. This study investigated this issue in a critical-emancipatory perspective, analyzing the context of its appearance, its influence and impact on worker training. Professional education in health being placed in this larger movement of the politics and proposals for training and qualification of workers is strongly influenced by wider processes of restructuring with significant developments in professional practice.

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MacNeil, Robert. "Neoliberal Climate Policy in the United States: From Market Fetishism to the Developmental State." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23587.

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The research question animating this project is ‘what is the nature of neoliberalism’s influence on recent and contemporary US climate change policy?’ Situating itself against several growing bodies of literature which have sought to underscore the fetishism of markets in recent environmental and climate policy agendas under neoliberalism – e.g., the work of Heynen et al (2007) on ‘neoliberal environments’; Paterson and Newell’s (2010) work on neoliberalism and carbon markets; and the work of Dryzek et al (2003) on state forms and ecological modernization – this project argues that any such analysis must be predicated on a considerably more nuanced conception of (a) ‘neoliberalism’, (b) the historic role of states in fostering accumulation, and (c) the nature of policy development within any specific neoliberal context. Applying these theoretical re-conceptualizations to the American context, the project argues that a central tension informing contemporary US climate policy under neoliberalism can be understood a stand-off between two prevailing logics in the federal policy process: on the one hand, Washington’s attempt to build on its tradition of using state power to foster high-tech market development by cultivating the alternative energy realm as a developmental state project, and on the other, the anti-regulationist bent of neoliberalism which seeks to delegitimize the ‘pull’ policies required to ‘creatively destroy’ conventional energy and animate domestic alternative energy markets. Against the general conception of the US as a ‘climate laggard’ whose policy options are restricted market mechanisms and generally anathema to progressive ecological modernization, this body of work shows how the US has managed to develop a robust set of interventionist ‘push’ and ‘pull’ climate policies along ‘alternative policy pathways’, despite the prevailing anti-state rhetoric of neoliberalism.

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Loit, Jon. "En stad i världsklass – hur och för vem? : En studie om Stockholms sociala stadsplanering." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutet för bostads- och urbanforskning (IBF), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-234566.

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The city is characterised by unequal living conditions and inequities. Residential segregation – in the sense that people with different socio-economic resources and of various ethnicities live separately from one another – is a major cause of urban inequities. Urban planning has contributed to segregation but also provides the potential for change by facilitating a more just and non-segregated city. Social sustainability and social justice objectives, however, usually conflict with a neoliberal planning mindset, one that shapes both the planning conditions and approach and benefits economic growth. The aim of this thesis is to examine how and for whom Stockholm is being planned in order to thus clarify whether the planning reduces segregation and contributes to creating a more just city. This is done by looking at Stockholm’s overall planning approach, based on the ambitious objective of ‘a world-class Stockholm’, and the present planning of two areas – Järva and Stockholm Royal Seaport. Vision Järva 2030 is a strategy to develop segregated neighbourhoods, while Stockholm Royal Seaport is a new urban development project. The analysis highlights that Stockholm’s planning is in a dialectical state between a socially sustainable approach – with the goal of reducing inequities and segregation – and a neoliberal development logic focusing on competing with other cities to attract investment. The latter, however, predominates, for instance resulting in social strategies taking place on neoliberal terms and so losing their true meaning. The planning focuses primarily on developing the city for a neoliberal subject associated with economic growth. In accordance with this, a lifestyle philosophy based on the city centre’s urban city ideals and middle-class consumption and activity patterns is in evidence in the planning. The overall conclusion is that the planning cannot be deemed to reduce segregation or contribute to the creation of a just city as a result of how and for whom the city is being planned.

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Miller, Elizabeth. "Subjective Efficiencies: Water Use, Management and Governance in the North Platte Natural Resources District." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1248409/.

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The North Platte Natural Resources District (NPNRD) is one of 23 quasi-governmental organizations in the state of Nebraska that are organized by river basin and are responsible for the management of groundwater. Conversely, the state's surface water is governed by the Nebraska Department of Natural Resources under the system of prior appropriation. This study uses Foucauldian neoliberal governmentality and a contrasting theory of 'meandering' to explore the conflicting beliefs, perceptions and values that form the foundations of different notions of 'efficiency' as it pertains to water use and management in NPNRD while a political ecology lens is used to situate local perceptions within the regional context of the Platte River Basin. Study findings ultimately point to the remaining 'disintegration' of water governance despite the state's efforts to create legislation that seeks to merge ground and surface water management in practice.

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Yartey, Franklin Nii Amankwah. "Digitizing Third World Bodies: Communicating Race, Identity, and Gender through Online Microfinance/A Visual Analysis." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1329782791.

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Madariaga, Espinoza Aldo Verfasser], Wolfgang [Akademischer Betreuer] Streeck, Jens [Akademischer Betreuer] [Beckert, and Béla [Akademischer Betreuer] Greskovits. "The Political Economy of Neoliberal Resilience. Developmental Regimes in Latin America and Eastern Europe / Aldo Madariaga Espinoza. Gutachter: Wolfgang Streeck ; Jens Beckert ; Bela Greskovits." Köln : Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1077605234/34.

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Madariaga, Espinoza Aldo Verfasser], Wolfgang [Akademischer Betreuer] [Streeck, Jens [Akademischer Betreuer] Beckert, and Béla [Akademischer Betreuer] Greskovits. "The Political Economy of Neoliberal Resilience. Developmental Regimes in Latin America and Eastern Europe / Aldo Madariaga Espinoza. Gutachter: Wolfgang Streeck ; Jens Beckert ; Bela Greskovits." Köln : Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln, 2015. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-63649.

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Brosius, Logan Robert Thomas. "On the Rise of China, The Reconfiguration of Global Power, and the Collapse of the Modern Liberal Order." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1453337681.

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Kinuthia, Wanyee. "“Accumulation by Dispossession” by the Global Extractive Industry: The Case of Canada." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/30170.

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This thesis draws on David Harvey’s concept of “accumulation by dispossession” and an international political economy (IPE) approach centred on the institutional arrangements and power structures that privilege certain actors and values, in order to critique current capitalist practices of primitive accumulation by the global corporate extractive industry. The thesis examines how accumulation by dispossession by the global extractive industry is facilitated by the “free entry” or “free mining” principle. It does so by focusing on Canada as a leader in the global extractive industry and the spread of this country’s mining laws to other countries – in other words, the transnationalisation of norms in the global extractive industry – so as to maintain a consistent and familiar operating environment for Canadian extractive companies. The transnationalisation of norms is further promoted by key international institutions such as the World Bank, which is also the world’s largest development lender and also plays a key role in shaping the regulations that govern natural resource extraction. The thesis briefly investigates some Canadian examples of resource extraction projects, in order to demonstrate the weaknesses of Canadian mining laws, particularly the lack of protection of landowners’ rights under the free entry system and the subsequent need for “free, prior and informed consent” (FPIC). The thesis also considers some of the challenges to the adoption and implementation of the right to FPIC. These challenges include embedded institutional structures like the free entry mining system, international political economy (IPE) as shaped by international institutions and powerful corporations, as well as concerns regarding ‘local’ power structures or the legitimacy of representatives of communities affected by extractive projects. The thesis concludes that in order for Canada to be truly recognized as a leader in the global extractive industry, it must establish legal norms domestically to ensure that Canadian mining companies and residents can be held accountable when there is evidence of environmental and/or human rights violations associated with the activities of Canadian mining companies abroad. The thesis also concludes that Canada needs to address underlying structural issues such as the free entry mining system and implement FPIC, in order to curb “accumulation by dispossession” by the extractive industry, both domestically and abroad.

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Hackell, Melissa Ann. "Towards a neoliberal citizenship regime a post-Marxist discourse analysis /." 2007. http://adt.waikato.ac.nz/public/adt-uow20071114.100152/index.html.

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Polonyi, Anna Elizabeth. "Contradictions of Neoliberal Development Interventions and Market Transition in Northern Lao PDR." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/35733.

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This thesis examines the trajectory and role of development within the context of transition from a command to market economy, in a northern region of the Lao PDR. It looks at how the long-term effects of development interventions have contributed to a context of regional integration where the role of foreign investment and the private sector are increasing. In particular, it examines the role of development interventions in the processes of diversification and differentiation that accompany market integration. The village of Ban Jai illustrates this process as a site where despite the failures of development projects a diversification of livelihoods have developed. The implementation of UNDP projects in Ban Jai raises questions regarding the role of international projects and suggests that rather than alleviating poverty they produce a chain of effects that contribute to the tensions that result from structural changes to the village household economy. My analysis examines the tensions produced by such shifts and how villagers negotiate their engagement with the market economy. The experience of women traders illustrates how relations of solidarity are reworked in an attempt to negotiate tensions produced through processes of market integration. As structural shifts take place with increasing economic integration, international agencies also respond in particular ways by shifting strategies. I also ask what changes shifts in strategy introduce at the local level and how this intersects with the way policies are rationalized by local officials and the UNDP. An examination of this trajectory over a period of two decades, suggests that changing strategies in development have involved a shifting role between international development organizations and the private sector. I ask what kind of context this intersection of structural shifts, policy shifts and institutional shifts produces on the ground and how such shifts are negotiated locally.

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Hickcox, Abby. "Neoliberal politics in conservation and development a case study in rural Mexico /." 2006. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/81146703.html.

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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 2006.
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Sirski, Daniel. "21st century socialism in Venezuela : development and socialism in the post neoliberal era." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/21572.

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Vergara-Camus, Leandro. "Neoliberal globalization, peasant movements, alternative development, and the state in Brazil and Mexico /." 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:NR39058.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2007. Graduate Programme in Political Science.
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Wightman, Jill Marie. "New Bolivians, new Bolivia : Pentecostal conversion and neoliberal transformation in contemporary Bolivia /." 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3314937.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-05, Section: A, page: 1856. Adviser: Andrew Orta. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 264-281) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.

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Marcus, Benny Charles Roberts Bryan R. Powers Daniel A. "Growth without equity inequality, social citizenship, and the neoliberal model of development in Chile /." 2004. http://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/2238/marcusbc97012.pdf.

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Marcus, Benny Charles. "Growth without equity: inequality, social citizenship, and the neoliberal model of development in Chile." Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/2238.

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Ding, Jian Min, and 丁健民. "The Relation between the Model of Neoliberal Development Strategy and the Argentine Financial Crisis in 2001." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/60171533371503718801.

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The neoliberal ascendancy in economic theory and policy commenced during the second half of the 1970s.The country''s neoliberal experiment began on March 24,1976 when the most brutal dictatorship in Argentina''s 20th century history came to power through a military coup.The military''s economic policy reversed decades of protectionist development policies aimed at industrialization and developing the internal market.Due to the outbreak of the debt crisis,from late 1982 on,the Argentine economy experienced high instability,huge fiscal deficits,and the general deterioration of government capacities.The May 1989 presidential elections,occurring at the peak of hyperinflation,gave an easy victory to the Peronist candidate Carlos Menem.For the purpose of solving the problem of inflation,in 1991,under the rule of Minister of Economy Domingo Cavallo,the Argentine peso''s monetary value was fixed by law to the value of the United States dollar.Monetary stabilization measures and structural adjustment reforms in Argentina were carried out mainly in Carlos Menem''s first term(1989-1995).They were launched soon after Menem''s accession to the presidency and clearly led by the executive throughout his two terms in office(1989-1999).In other words,according to the economic liberalism and the Washington Consensus,significant reform has indeed occurred in Argentina over the last decade,in particular in the early 1990s. The concrete view of Neoliberalism is the so-called “Washington Consensus”policy orientation.The Washington Consensus has three main ideological thrusts.First,the opening up of Latin American markets to the world economy through trade liberalization and easier foreign direct investment.Second,the reduction of direct government intervention in the economy through privatization as well as increasing the professional role of economic ministries-through fiscal discipline,balanced budgets and tax reform.Third,increasing the significance of the market in the allocation of resources and making the private sector the main instrument of economic growth through deregulation,secure property rights and financial liberalization. Because of the recession of the economy,Argentina quickly lost the confidence of investors,and the flight of money away from the country increased.In 2001,people fearing the worst began withdrawing large sums of money from their bank accounts,turning pesos into dollars and sending them abroad,causing a bank run.The crisis in Argentina,began as an economic and financial crisis,and then became a social crisis and exploded as a political one.In fact,the Argentine crisis that broke out at the end of 2001 was caused by the government''s default;therefore,it was a debt crisis in nature.In Argentina,the neoliberal economic model took off in 1990,and from then on,Argentina became one of the most highly liberalized financial systems in the world.Capital could freely flow in and out without even clear registration demands.As a result,Argentina''s national sovereignty –its political autonomy and its economic independence –was subjugated to the global capitalist system.In this way,there is no denying that the Argentine crisis has a great relation with the neoliberal model of development.Furthermore,this is also the main issue of the research.

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Gonçalves, Hermínia Júlia de Castro Fernandes. "Reconfiguração do serviço social contemporâneo no quadro do pensamento neoliberal." Doctoral thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/18710.

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Está em curso uma reorganização dos serviços de providência social que abre caminho à política territorializada e ao reforço das práticas comunitárias na ação do Serviço Social, refutando algumas das ortodoxias que se foram criando no âmbito das teorias do Serviço Social crítico estruturalista. O espaço municipal, atravessado por estruturas de parceria, promove a articulação entre decisores políticos do Estado central e local, associações, instituições particulares de solidariedade social, assistentes sociais, outros técnicos e pessoas da comunidade e convida a uma intervenção social mais alargada sobre os contextos da vulnerabilidade. No quadro do paradigma interacionista a presente investigação parte do estudo das práticas e da relação das práticas com as "prescrições" normativas e teóricas, percorrendo três dimensões - política, operativa e ética. Interpreta as teorias da prática comunitária, a narrativa das visões e os contextos da prática, conciliando o método qualitativo e os estudos de caso múltiplos na linha da "Grounded Theory". A investigação organizou-se em torna da resposta à questão central- no quadro do neoliberalismo e da reconfiguração do sistema de provisão social pública em estruturas pluri-institucionais, o Serviço Social chama a si um desenvolvimento comunitário reconfigurado? A abordagem do Serviço Social a partir de estruturas pluri-institucionais como a Rede Social em Portugal, tem impulsionado a prática crítica pós-estruturalista e sistémica e a renovação de matrizes teórico-metodológicas de Serviço Social comunitário. A conceção de "polity-centred-analysis" tornou-se crucial para fazer face à necessidade de desenvolver uma ação estratégica que complemente o sistema público da política universal. Contudo, as lógicas operacionais subjacentes, desafiam a renovação do campo comunitário no intuito de se atingirem respostas integradas e críticas pós estruturalistas. A narrativa apresenta sinais de inquietação profissional em torno da orientação neoliberal das políticas, das nova institucionalidades e instrumentalidades. Por outro lado, face à diversidade de conceções de prática com comunidades e de representações da prática crítica, foi determinante recuperar fundamentos e explicitar o potencial do instrumental metodológico do Serviço Social Comunitário na contemporaneidade. Resulta clara a necessidade de reflexividade profissional e reforço do raciocínio político, histórico-contextual, teórico, metodológico e ético-profissional no Serviço Social contemporâneo.
A reorganization of social welfare services is underway, opening the way to territorial politics and reinforcing the community practices in social work, refuting some of the orthodoxies that have been created within the framework of critical structuralist social work theories. The municipal space traversed by partnership structures, promotes the link between central and local State decision-makers, associations, private social solidarity institutions, social workers, other technicians and community members, inviting for a broader social intervention on the contexts of vulnerability. In the context of the interactionist paradigm, the present investigation starts from the study of practices and the relation of practices to normative and theoretical "prescriptions", going through three dimensions - political, operational and ethical. Interprets the theories of community practice, the narrative of the visions and practice contexts, combining the qualitative method and multiple case studies in line with the Grounded Theory. Research has been organized in response to the central question - in the context of neoliberalism and the reconfiguration of the system of public social provision in multi-institutional structures, does the Social Work call itself a reconfigured community development? The Social Work approach, based on multi-institutional structures such as the Social Network in Portugal, has promoted the post-structuralist and systemic critical practice and the renewal of theoretical-methodological matrices of Community Social Work. The design of polity-centred-analysis has become crucial to address the need to develop strategic action that complements the public system of universal policy. However, the underlying operational logics challenge the renewal of the community field in order to achieve integrated responses and post-structuralist criticism. The narrative shows signs of professional unrest about the neoliberal orientation of policies, and new institutions and instrumentalities. On the other hand, given the diversity of concepts of practice with communities and representations of critical practice, it was crucial to recover fundamentals to explain the potential of the methodological tools of Community Social Work in the contemporaneity. Results clear the need for a professional reflexivity to reinforce political, historical-contextual, theoretical, methodological and ethical-professional reasoning in contemporary social work.

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Jang, Jin-Ho. "The neoliberal transformation of the developmental state in South Korea : the financial sector, reform politics, and global capital /." 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3242880.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-11, Section: A, page: 4351. Adviser: Jan Nederveen Pieterse. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 172-201) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.

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