“A quite similar enterprise … interpreted quite differently”? James Buchanan, John Rawls and the politics of the social contract by Jackson, BE, Stemplowska, Z

“…The exchanges between Buchanan and Rawls demonstrate that Rawlsian liberalism and neoliberalism initially emerged as entwined critiques of mid-twentieth-century political economy but could not sustain that alliance when faced by the new claims for civil and social rights that became a marked feature of politics after the 1960s.…”

Creating and destroying diaspora strategies by Gamlen, A

“…The research in this paper confirms that the new diaspora initiatives emerged from a process of neoliberal reform. However, it also highlights that, in the same period, older, inherited institutional frameworks for interacting with expatriates were being dismantled as part of a different dynamic within the same wider neoliberalization process. …”

‘Right nutrition, right values’: the construction of food, youth and morality in the UK government 2010-2014 by Elliott, V, Hore, B

“…Within these, two overarching themes emerge: a tension between neoliberalism and liberal paternalism, and a link between meals and morality.…”

Wall-building policy: nationalist space management and borderphobia as right-wing populists' tools for doing authoritarian politics by Piotr Żuk, Paweł Żuk

“…The phenomenon of borderphobia can be a symbol of the symbiosis between political authoritarianism, nationalism and economic neoliberalism: the combination of these three forces affects the development of the “border industry” in Europe and in the world. …”
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“The Perils of Library Instruction” by Lydia Zvyagintseva, Joel Blechinger

“…We demonstrate that the emergence and development of teaching—and specifically teaching information literacy (IL) as a kind of librarian curriculum—in academic libraries in North America corresponds to the emergence of neoliberalism. The shocks created by neoliberal fiscal austerity along with anxiety about de-professionalization and de-skilling provoked by cheaper and more widely available information technology created a mounting crisis of legitimacy in librarianship throughout the late 1970s and into the 1980s. …”
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Problems of regional development as the reflection of the effectiveness of public administration by Vladimir Aleksandrovich Ilyin, Anna Ivanovna Povarova

“…Economic policy of extreme neoliberalism, having been held in Russia for more than twenty years, has led to the present stagnation of socio-economic development of the country. …”
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Academic Identity and Communities of Practice: Narratives of Social Science Academics Career Decisions in Taiwan by Gregory Siy Ching

“…In the current era of neoliberalism, changes to university governance in Taiwan have transformed working conditions and hiring practices in academia. …”
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Meridian Cities Today. From Cosenza, some Reflections about Possible Developments of South Historic Centres by Andrea Spallato

“…In cities transformed by neoliberalism and the machinery of capitalist production, the pandemic has opened new breaches into which new and old practices of value accumulation and extraction continue to creep in. …”
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Editorial by Elizabeth Mackinlay, Martin Nakata

“…The current educational climate of neoliberalism — replete as it is with individualism, competition, measurement and accountability — is certainly no different but we are still here — persisting and resisting. …”
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“Small Is Viable”: The Arts, Ecology, and Development in Peru by Claire F. Fox

“…The Micromuseo, founded in 1983 by Gustavo Buntinx and Susana Torres Márquez, conceptualized cultural networks as an ecosystem to articulate an “alternative museality” in the capital during eventful decades marked by devastating civil conflict and the implementation of austere neoliberalism. Inviting direct interaction with diverse publics, each of these ecologically oriented projects anticipates “cultural sustainability” as an emerging concept in cultural policy arenas. …”
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The Interplay of Interest between Indonesia and Sweden in Blue Economy Cooperation by Jusmalia Oktaviani, Firdaus Muhamad Iqbal

“…To solve this research question, the research used the Neoliberalism of international cooperation and national interests. …”
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The Uncommonness of Urban Commons in Central and Eastern European Countries by Rudina Toto, Maja Grabkowska, Peter Nientied, Vera Smirnova, Sonja Dragović

“…The four open space Urban Commons examples (respectively in Tirana, Podgorica, Gdansk and Moscow) analysed in this paper showcase successes and failures of [co-]governance, which reflect the varying development context in each country, the respective local governments’ roles, and the different pathways that citizens have taken towards city space [re]appropriation in the frame of post-socialism and neoliberalism.…”
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Children’s Victimization in Turkish Cinema between the 1970s and the 1980s by Menderes Akdağ, Serhat Yetimova, Hatice Yaren Eser

“…Between the 1970s and 1980s in Turkey, there were various problems such as rapid urbanization, migration from village to city, economical problems such as embargo and neoliberalism and political violence over the military coups. …”
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The Tribulations of American Democracy in Philip Roth’s "The Plot Against America" by Aristi Trendel

“… Since its establishment American democracy has always been challenged to a greater or lesser extent. If neoliberalism and the reign of finance constitute democracy’s major contemporary challenge, in his 2004 alternate history novel, The Plot Against America, Philip Roth ostentatiously chooses to set his narrative in the 1940s and explore democracy in the ‘what-if’ mode, which gives him extra breadth allowing for extravagant flights of fancy. …”
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Promises and pitfalls of ecotourism: patterns from a literature review by Morgane Voumard

“…According to the results, patterns of ecotourism implementation are intertwined with neoliberal policies and practices and follow three main mechanisms: 1) extension of neoliberal governance to the detriment of local population self-determination, 2) modification of local culture towards market-driven logics and 3) increased neoliberalization of nature under the form of commodification. …”
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La piratería como conflicto. Discursos sobre la propiedad intelectual en México by José Carlos G. Aguiar

“…The author’s central argument is that the criminalization of piracy is not the result of a process of national interest which has as its objective the promotion and intensification of intellectual property rights or the rule of law but, rather, emerges from a punitive perspective emanating from networks of international interests and transnational actors characteristic of global neoliberalism.…”
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Between family and market: Poverty among women in a social welfare program in Chile by Claudia Calquin-Donoso, Rodrigo Guerra-Arrau

“…It is concluded that the production of a government technology based on the cross of a fierce neoliberalism and a new social conservatism reproduces the classic sexual division of labor within an entrepreneurial scheme.…”
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Speaking in nobody's mother tongue: English immersion at home as a family language policy by Ana Belén Alarcón Utrera, Esther Nieto Moreno de Diezmas

“…In a globalized society, where neoliberalism imposes its logic at all levels, languages (and particularly, English) are seen as profitable commodities to thrive in the market society. …”
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Crise do capitalismo e Estado: que projeto de país e de educação superior? by Deise Mancebo

“…The text is made up of four parts: it begins with a brief presentation of the crisis of capitalism and the role that States have played in its “administration”; then, it analyzes authoritarianism (and neofascism) as one of the solutions found by neoliberalism in crisis; in the third part, it develops the neoliberal production of subjectivities and, subsequently, analyzes some trends that have been consolidating in higher education in the country, under neoliberal logic in an authoritarian context. …”
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Introducing Alternautas 2.0 by Angus McNelly, Gibrán Cruz-Martínez

“…A new generation of the Latin American Left is now in power in Chile and Colombia – previous bastons of neoliberalism – whilst the successors of the pink tide reside over Argentina, Bolivia and possibly Brazil, if Lula is successful in his bid to become president once again later this year. …”
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