Por Armando Boito Jr.: [excerpt] “A frente neodesenvolvimentista é a frente política integrada por classes e frações de classe muito heterogêneas que sustentou os governos Lula da Silva e que, agora, sustenta o governo Dilma. Essa frente representa prioritariamente os interesses de um setor importante da burguesia brasileira que é a grande burguesia interna. Essa [...]
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The Urban Roots of Financial Crises:
January 18, 2012
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Reclaiming the City for Anti-Capitalist Struggle By David Harvey: [ABSTRACT] Property market booms and busts are inextricably intertwined with speculative financial flows and these booms and busts have serious consequences for the macro-economy in general as well as all manner of externality effects upon resource depletion and environmental degradation. Property booms and capitalist crises also [...]
Read more Misère de l’économie du développement
December 13, 2011
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Par Cédric Durand et Charlotte Nordmann: L’extension de la rationalité néolibérale à l’échelle mondiale a engendré une augmentation dramatique de la pauvreté, des inégalités et de la dépendance au capitalisme mondialisé. À ces processus, les organisations internationales n’ont pas su résister, quand elles ne les ont pas accompagnés ou aggravés. Une redéfinition radicale de l’économie [...]
Read more PRESSURE: The PoliTechnics of Water Supply in Mumbai
November 2, 2011
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By Nikhil Anand: “Now there is a [state] policy regulation for water that we are bound by. Those structures prior to January 1995 are eligible for basic amenities. We are allowed . . . supposed to give water to them. Those [who have unauthorized structures built] after that date also get water. They make arrangements [...]
Read more Theses on the New European Fascism
October 28, 2011
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An anticipatory paper of Paolo Virno: [excerpts] 1. At the turn of the century, European fascism is the twin brother, which is to say the terrifying “double,” of the most radical instances of freedom and community that arise in the crisis of the labor-based society. It is the malignant caricature of what men and women [...]
Read more This is Actually Happening
October 21, 2011
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By Escalate (collective of writers and activists from around the University of London) – January 2011 – Introduction: The delusional cries in the media that our protests are hijacked by trouble-makers are indicative of how complete our alienation is. The unspoken belief is that all disorder and disobedience must originate outside of normal society, as [...]
Read more Tensions of Citizenship
October 7, 2011
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By Be Young and Shut up: In the much debated discourse over the consequences of economic globalization and the pervasive constructs of neoliberal governmentality that is seemingly creeping into every imaginable space of the world today, it appears that the contested frameworks of citizenship and the democratic principles it assumes have once again come into [...]
Read more Focopolítica y Gubernamentalidad Neoliberal, las políticas sociales
August 31, 2011
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Por Sonia Alvarez Leguizamón: El nuevo arte de gobernar, de la gubernamentalidad neoliberal, está constituido por una nueva tecnologia de gobierno que conforma una “nueva economía”, basada en el ahorro de energía del Estado caracterizada por el marcaje de poblaciones de riesgo. Tiene como preocupación la gestiõn, control y producción de saberes especializados sobre esas [...]
Read more ¿Profesionales de la educación, o sólo empleados?
August 11, 2011
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Por Manuel Pérez Rocha: [La Jornada] Muchas de las reformas y acciones que se están poniendo en marcha en el sector educativo, principalmente en la SEP, pero no sólo ahí, alejan cada vez más la posibilidad de que el magisterio se constituya en comunidades colegiadas de profesionales de la educación, condición sin la cual la [...]
Read more Spoiled!
August 8, 2011
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How relentless enforcement and $1,000 tickets are ruining Chinatown’s largest fruit & vegetable market – By Street Vendor Project: New York City is in the midst of a health crisis. Fifty-eight percent of New Yorkers are overweight or obese, and more than half-a-million city residents have been diagnosed with diabetes. In recent years, social scientists [...]
Read more Rosario: la experiencia política de la ciudad-empresa
July 28, 2011
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By Emiliano Sacchi: * We try to understand the “form of government” of the city, but shifting the accent from a classical perspective (legal and political) toward a perspective focused on political practices and their own specifics rationalities, understanding urban governance as political technology [subjectification process establishing our political experience of the city boundaries]. * [...]
Read more Urban Struggle for the Right to the City
July 28, 2011
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By RTC: * The right to the city [following Lefebvre] is used here primarily to describe the development of the ‘capitalist city’, its negative effects for its inhabitants and the potential utopias that could be made possible, in contrast to other approaches such as the ‘creative city’ developed by urban theorists like Richard Florida. * [...]
Read more Education Reform – the Fix is In
July 11, 2011
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The Realignment Project: In any other area of public policy where we see rich hedge-funders providing government agencies with private funds with strings attached, demanding control over choice of administrators and direction of public policy (such as was the case with various foundations and the D.C schools), and financing the opponents of elected officials who [...]
Read more Municipal Neoliberalism and Municipal Socialism: Urban Political Economy in Latin America
April 20, 2011
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By Benjamin Goldfrank and Andrew Schrank: The following article identifies two different urban policy regimes in Latin America — neoliberal and socialist—and traces their origins to the distinct interests and capacities of local elites and activists in the region’s cities in the mid-to-late twentieth century. While agricultural and commercial interests paid a high price for [...]
Read more The Centrality of the State in Neoliberal Times: Gramsci and beyond
March 27, 2011
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By Peter Mayo: One of the greatest myths being propagated in this contemporary neoliberal scenario is that the nation state is no longer the main force in this period characterized by the intensification of globalization. Deregulation was brought in by governments to expedite the process where various forms of provision, private and formerly public, were [...]
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