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Polarising development: alternatives to neoliberalism and the crisis

Contributor(s): Publication details: London Pluto Press 2015Description: vi, 280 pISBN:
  • 9780745334691
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • P6 338.9
Summary: The global economic crisis has exposed the limits of neoliberalism and dramatically deepened social polarization. Yet, despite increasing social resistance and opposition, neoliberalism prevails globally. Radical alternatives, moreover, are only rarely debated. And if they are, such alternatives are reduced to new Keynesian and new developmental agendas, which fail to address existing class divisions and imperialist relations of domination. This collection of essays polarizes the debate between radical and reformist alternatives by exploring head-on the antagonistic structure of capitalist development. The contributors ground their proposals in an international, non-Eurocentric and Marxian inspired analysis of capitalism and its crises. From Latin America to Asia, Africa to the Middle East and Europe to the US, social and labour movements have emerged as the protagonists behind creating alternatives. This book’s new generation of scholars has written accessible yet theoretically informed and empirically rich chapters elaborating radical worldwide strategies for moving beyond neoliberalism, and beyond capitalism. The intent is to provoke critical reflection and positive action towards substantive change. (http://www.plutobooks.com/display.asp?K=9780745334691&)
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Table of Contents:

Foreword

1. Polarizing Development – Introducing Alternatives to Neoliberalism and the Crisis
Thomas Marois and Lucia Pradella


PART I: ALTERNATIVE THEMES


2. Beyond Impoverishment: Western Europe in the World Economy
Lucia Pradella

3. Banking on Alternatives to Neoliberal Development
Thomas Marois

4. The Political Economy of Development: Statism or Marxism?
Benjamin Selwyn

5. The Globalisation of Production and the Struggle for Workers’ Unity: Lessons from Bangladesh
John Smith

6. The ‘rise of the south’
Alfredo Saad-Filho

7. Hegemony in Question: US Primacy, Multi-Polarity and Global Resistance
Jerome Klassen

8. Neoliberalism, Crisis and International Migration
Pietro Basso

9. Neoliberalism, Social Reproduction and Women’s resistance: Lessons from Cambodia and Venezuela
Sarah Miraglia and Susan Spronk

10. Exploding in the Air: Beyond the Carbon trail of Neoliberal Globalisation
Andreas Malm

11. Defend, Militate and Alternate: Public Options in a Privatized World
David A. McDonald

12. Utopian Socialism and Marx’s Capital: Envisioning Alternatives
Hugo Radice


PART II: ALTERNATIVE CASES


13. Beyond Neoliberalism and new Developmentalism in Latin America: towards an anti-Capitalist Agenda
Abelardo Mariña-Flores

14. Crisis and Class, Advance and Retreat: the Political Economy of the New Latin American Left
Jeffery R. Webber

15. Taking Control: Decommodification and Peasant alternatives to neoliberalism in Mexico and Brazil
Leandro Vergara-Camus

16. The Rise of East Asia: A Slippery Floor for the Left
Dae-oup Chang

17. Labour as an Agent of Change: The Case of China
Tim Pringle

18. Alternatives to Neoliberalism in India
Rohini Hensman

19. Musical Chairs on the side-lines: The Challenges of Social Transformation in Neo-Colonial Africa
Baba Aye

20. Challenging Neoliberalism in the Arab World
Adam Hanieh

21. Socialist Feminist Alternatives to Neoliberalism in Turkey
Demet Özmen Y lmaz

22. Uneven Development and Political Resistance against EU Austerity Politics
Angela Wigger and Laura Horn

23. Crisis, Austerity and Resistance in the United States
David McNally

List of contributors

Index


The global economic crisis has exposed the limits of neoliberalism and dramatically deepened social polarization. Yet, despite increasing social resistance and opposition, neoliberalism prevails globally.

Radical alternatives, moreover, are only rarely debated. And if they are, such alternatives are reduced to new Keynesian and new developmental agendas, which fail to address existing class divisions and imperialist relations of domination.

This collection of essays polarizes the debate between radical and reformist alternatives by exploring head-on the antagonistic structure of capitalist development. The contributors ground their proposals in an international, non-Eurocentric and Marxian inspired analysis of capitalism and its crises. From Latin America to Asia, Africa to the Middle East and Europe to the US, social and labour movements have emerged as the protagonists behind creating alternatives.

This book’s new generation of scholars has written accessible yet theoretically informed and empirically rich chapters elaborating radical worldwide strategies for moving beyond neoliberalism, and beyond capitalism. The intent is to provoke critical reflection and positive action towards substantive change.


(http://www.plutobooks.com/display.asp?K=9780745334691&)

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