Making Thessaloniki Resilient? The Enclosing Process of the Urban Green Commons by Maria Karagianni

“…Based on data on green public space spatial distribution; semi-structured interviews with municipal representatives and senior employees and representatives of the government, civil society, and local professional associations; policy document analysis; and comparative analysis of all relevant development and planning documents, and drawing on Brenner and Theodore’s (2005) conceptualisation of neoliberalism, the article argues that greening policies in Thessaloniki form an ongoing enclosing process of the urban green commons that articulates in a threefold manner: their discursive construction as “natural assets,” the implementation of spatially selective policies, and the post-politicisation of decision-making processes.…”
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Crime, Hooded Crusaders, and (Private) Justice: Arrow and the Exoneration of Vigilantism in Contemporary Popular Media by Jesús Jiménez-Varea, Antonio Pineda

“…By portraying the state as inefficient and/or corrupt, the show boosts ideologies of individualism and anti-government neoliberalism. …”
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INJUSTICE EMBEDDED IN GOOGLE CLASSROOM AND GOOGLE MEET: A TECHNO-ETHICAL AUDIT OF REMOTE EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES by Benjamin Gleason, Marie K. Heath

“…Forcing pre-COVID-19 structures of school onto the realities of the global pandemic ignores the systemic structures embedded in public education which made pre-pandemic school places of harm for students marginalized by racism and neoliberalism. Informed by critical theories of educational technology, this study investigated how the design of technologies central to emergency remote education carry powerful perspectives about the nature and dimensions of learning. …”
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Border Reconfigurations in Contagious Societies. Epidemics as Biopolitical Crises from the Decameron to Nemesis by Alice Balestrino

“…Indeed, mercantile Florence of the Trecento was on the brink of a new era, the Early Modern period, likewise 1944 USA was involved in WWII, fighting for the geopolitical supremacy over a new world order (the Cold War) and shaping a new socio-economic model: neoliberalism. …”
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Una decolonizzazione mai terminata. Il modello portoghese di colonizzazione in Brasile e la costruzione dell’Altro/a africano/a nell’immaginario razzista by Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz

“…These episodes have to be considered not only as the product of contemporary racism and its links with neoliberalism effects on marginalized groups, but also as the product of racist and colonial Portuguese ideology. …”
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Review of the Monograph “Unconditional Basic Income. A Revolutionary Reform of the 21st Century Society” By Maciej Szlinder, Pwn, Warsaw, 2018, P. 310 by Wójcicki Włodzimierz

“…The idea stems from the criticism of neoliberalism, and it interferes with the system of values shaped under capitalism, the role of the welfare state, the welfare system from the perspective of institutions and beneficiaries, who would replace their current privileges with inalienable rights. …”
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Who Runs Public Administration? A Longitudinal Study of Technocratic Ministerial Appointments in Post-Communist Romania (1991–2021) by Cătălin Raiu, Laura Mina-Raiu

“…Such nominations are discussed in correlation with the advancements of new theories of democracy and public administration, imprinted with Neoliberalism, New Public Management, and Good Governance paradigms.…”
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Universal basic income on blockchain: the case of circles UBI by Vangelis Papadimitropoulos, Giannis Perperidis

“…We give a snapshot here of the model of open cooperativism as a counter-hegemonic political project vis-à-vis neoliberalism. Circles UBI could plug into the model of open cooperativism as a distribution and liquidity injection mechanism to foster the transition towards a commons-based ethical and sustainable post-capitalist economy.…”
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The prestige economy of elite education: a Baudrillardian analysis of an aspirational English school by Chris Holligan, Qasir Shah

“…We mobilise Baudrillard’s concepts to probe a school’s strategic communication methods symbolising class neoliberalism, which aspirational parents may experience as a desired habitus of ‘distinction’. …”
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After Planning, the Production of Radical Social Space in Barcelona: Real-Estate Financial Circuit and (De Facto) Right to the City by Pedro Jiménez-Pacheco

“…The starting point is that neoliberal social space is produced, prepared, and led to the imminent urban post-neoliberalism, in the midst of this movement, a sophisticated planning system appears, with the old promise of service tradition, egalitarian ethics and pragmatic orientation. …”
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THE ROLE OF RUSSIAN DIPLOMACY IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF "ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT" IN RUSSIA by D. L. Sivovolov

“…There multiple variations of these three positions stemming from state information dictatorship to information neoliberalism. The author states three main strategic goals of the Russian diplomacy in information sphere: – partaking in shaping international information legislation which is prone to many problems today. – protecting IT sector of the Russian economy with TNCs enjoying almost monopoly on international IT market.…”
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The gamble of the gig economy: the accentuated precarity of platform workers from low-income backgrounds in Singapore by Chin, Darryl Wei Chieh

“…Until recently, the gig economy in neoliberal Singapore has received little attention since its emergence and creeping growth. …”
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Globalisation: the good, the bad and the ugly by Marginson, S

“…There are three critiques of Euro-American globalisation that explain different aspects of it in higher education: globalisation as neoliberalism; globalisation as an English-language monoculture, which has limited the benefits of the science system; and globalisation as White Supremacy. …”

Drivers and barriers to change in desalinated water governance in the GCC: a comparative approach to water privatisations in Abu Dhabi, Doha and Kuwait City by Lambert, LA

“…The political culture approach shows that these privatisations were facilitated by a gradual shift from pure rentierism towards a post-rentier form of neoliberalism in the political philosophy of liberal water technocrats on the one hand, and towards a regional trend of ‘pious neoliberalism’ (Atia, 2011) among practicing Sunni Muslims. …”

Neo-nationalism as a reaction to globalisation and superstate by Petr Skalník

“…The European Union is under threat of late because various neo-nationalist elites find unbearable the super-state trends and economic neoliberalism of bureaucratic cosmopolites. Nationalism is a populist doctrine by definition that was framed by democratic polities. …”
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Welcoming outsiders: The nascent Jesus community as a locus of hospitality and equality (Mk 9:33–42; 10:2–16) by Zorodzai Dube

“…As a remedy, modern Neoliberalism proposes that the poor must hope and steadily work their way up the economic ladder. …”
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Curriculum transformations in South Africa: some discomforting truths on interminable poverty and inequalities in schools and society by Norah Risana Ngobeni, Mackenzie Ishmael Chibambo, Joseph Jinja Divala

“…In the main, we established that neoliberal-minimalist policies have significantly influenced socio-economic inequalities in South Africa. …”
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The wellbeing pandemic: Outline of a contested terrain and a proposed research agenda by Steven J. Jackson, Michael P. Sam, Marcelle C. Dawson, Marcelle C. Dawson, Daniel Porter

“…More specifically, the essay: (1) briefly describes the historical origins and development of wellbeing; (2) discusses how it has been reconceptualised within the context of neoliberalism; and, (3) outlines a research agenda offering three ways to investigate wellbeing including: (a) as a wicked problem; (b) as part of the process of “wellbeing washing” within state and other institutional structures and policies; and, (c) in relation to alternative futures, which might encourage us to reimagine or jettison the term altogether.…”
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COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO DEFINITION OF THE REGIONAL COMPLEX by K. A. Efremova

“…The paper deals with the analysis of the concept “regional complex” by three mainstream approaches in the IR theory, namely, neorealism, neoliberalism, and social constructivism. In the English-speaking world the concept is mostly associated with the Regional Security Complexes Theory (RSCT) developed by Barry Buzan and Ole Wæver. …”
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Integrative resilience in action: Stories from the frontlines of climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic by Chiara Camponeschi

“…By being rooted in lived experience, these innovative initiatives amplify and advance the work of frontline communities who are challenging and resisting the neoliberalization not only of urban governance and resilience, but of wellbeing and (self-) care more broadly.…”
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