A decomposição do Estado e o protagonismo da sociedade civil no enfrentamento da questão social no Brasil: os dilemas da cidadania e da democracia na contemporaneidade by Freire, Silene de Moraes, Barboza, Douglas Ribeiro

“…Pretendemos, assim, discutir de que modo a permanência histórica da desigualdade social, dos limites da cidadania e da democracia serviram como elemento facilitador para a implementação da agenda neoliberal no Brasil…”
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El Gobierno como elemento potenciador del desarrollo local by Carlos Alberto Hernández Medina, Alexander Báez Hernández, Magdalys Alibet Carrasco Fuentes

“…Se relacionan los procesos globalizadores con la pretensión neoliberal de subordinar al mercado los poderes estatales. …”
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Conceptualizing Homo Sensus Academicus Mobilis: Towards a paradigm shift in understanding contemporary global academic mobility by Lero Nikola G.

“…Academic mobility is a historical practice that has morphed into a Westernized emblem of our times in the mixture of post-modernity and neoliberal capitalism. Higher education institutions, now bastions of internationalization, have seen exponential growth in academic mobility beyond national and regional limits. …”
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Aspiring to Dutchness: Media Literacy, Integration, and Communication with Eritrean Status Holders by Rosanne van Kommer, Joke Hermes

“…Starting as an inquiry into how professionals and their clients have different ideas of what constitutes “inclusive communication,” analysis of the interviews provides insight into how there is a need to (a) renegotiate citizenship away from the equation of neoliberal values with good citizenship and recognising needs and ambitions outside a neoliberal framework, (b) rethink components of formal and informal communication, and (c) reconceptualise media literacies beyond Western-oriented definitions. …”
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Neoliberalismo y subjetividad. Notas para pensar la gubernamentalidad de nuestro tiempo by Emiliano Sacchi

“…En este trabajo nos proponemos algunas notas exploratorias sobre la experiencia neoliberal prestando particular atención a los procesos de subjetivación que la misma implica. …”
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Empobrecimiento, nuevos pobres y viejos pobres. Un palimpsesto de inscripciones borrosas by Alejandro Klein

“…Parte de datos empíricos como aproximación, pero se centra especialmente en una perspectiva cualitativa que intenta estudiar cómo se van consolidando las figuras e imágenes del pobre y la pobreza en la región desde la gestión neoliberal (y brevemente comentando el llamado “posneoliberalismo”), tomando especialmente tres ejes de análisis: la discusión sobre la constitución del Estado de bienestar en Latinoamérica y la consolidación (y posterior destitución neoliberal) del porvenir y la promesa como ejes del mismo, relacionado con el desarrollo de las figuras de ciudadanía; la legitimación (y posterior deslegitimación) de la figura del obrero como modelo de la pobreza “digna”, referida al modelo de movilidad social en términos de reversibilidad centro-periferia; y la progresiva aparición en el escenario de la clase media empobrecida, situación que aporta elementos inéditos al estado de la cuestión.…”
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Sensi di una fine. Danto e l’arte post-storica by Stefano Velotti

“…I argue: (a) that Danto surreptitiously or parasitically uses in his critical activity a notion of aesthetic experience which his philosophical argument, and in particular his “aesthetic of meanings”, cannot legitimize; (b) that his thesis relating to the end of art history is symptomatic of a wider problem, which involves our forms of life, and which finds a particularly significant statement in Friedrich von Hayek’s neoliberal thought. The attempt at a neoliberal anthropology of homo œconomicus implies the tendency to absorb within it the very meaning of the experience that has long been at the center of aesthetic and artistic experience. …”
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Nuevas leyes de medios en Sudamérica: enfrentando políticamente la concentración mediática by Pedro Santander

“…Los reiterados triunfos electorales de varios jefes de Estado sudamericanos, cuyos programas y discursos cuestionan los postulados básicos del modelo capitalista, sobre todo en su etapa neoliberal, han llevado a diversos autores a plantear que el epicentro de la lucha ideológica de la izquierda mundial se ha desplazado hacia América Latina. …”
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Victims, civil society and transitional justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina by Humphrey Michael

“…Victim organizations were part of the NGO sector which grew rapidly in response to the neoliberal governance model of selforganizing civil society to transform post-socialist and postwar BiH. …”
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Eroding Rights, Crafting Solidarity? Shifting Dynamics in the State–Civil Society Nexus in Flanders and Brussels by Robin Vandevoordt

“…While these initiatives have partly filled the gaps that were created by a series of neoliberal reforms in Flanders’ citizenship regime, the same neoliberal outlook has prevented these initiatives from being institutionalised. …”
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Le élites transnazionali nel processo di integrazione europea: la Ert e l’attacco al modello sociale by Enrico Gargiulo

“…Thereafter, it has adhered to a neoliberal vision of politics and the economy, shifting consequently its ideological orientation from Europeanism to globalism. …”
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Political insurance for the (relative) poor: How liberal constitutionalism could resist plutocracy by Khaitan, T

“…Such lockout breaches the legitimacy constraint on a liberal constitutional democracy. Neoliberal democracies, sooner or later, become plutocracies. …”

Eroding rights, crafting solidarity? Shifting dynamics in the state-civil society nexus in Flanders and Brussels by Vandevoordt, R

“…While these initiatives have partly filled the gaps that were created by a series of neoliberal reforms in Flanders’ citizenship regime, the same neoliberal outlook has prevented these initiatives from being institutionalised. …”

Communication from otherness by Dora Aidé Ramírez González

“…The text starts with a reflection on how a modern society governed by functional rationality, the neoliberal model, capitalism and globalization leads to instrumentalization of communication, which, in turn, results in alienation of the other in the communicative process. …”
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De la psicopolítica al elogio de la tierra: exégesis de la filosofía de Byung-Chul Han by Antonio Zapelli

“… A través de esta contribución, la filosofía de Byung-Chul Han, que contempla desde las críticas del sistema neoliberal hasta un camino de rehabilitación para el hombre, se pasa a través de un vínculo renovado con la naturaleza. …”
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Los Muertos No Son Números: Gestión Política de la Muerte en Tiempos de Pandemia by Élio Gasda

“…El homicidio de los pobres por el Covid-19 expone claramente la esencia del capitalismo neoliberal. La pandemia es el escenario perfecto para que el Bolsonarismo ponga en práctica su necro-política. …”
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Flexible academic man: Two cases compared by Alexander Koensler, Cristina Papa

“…With the acceleration of the neoliberal management of academic institutions, the rules of evaluation change continuously in unpredicatable ways. …”
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Book Review: The Circle of the Snake: Nostalgia and Utopia in the Age of Big Tech by Grafton Tanner by Jamie Ranger

“…The Circle of the Snake grapples with the political consequences of the cultural turn to nostalgia, specifically the dynamic tension between the radical nostalgia required to contest the incessant homogeneity of cultural reproduction and the neoliberal narrative of a nascent digital utopia endemic to our contemporary systems of mediated communication.…”
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Strategies for Streamlined Urban Development: A Case Study of Land Use Succession in Upper Hill, Nairobi by Elizabeth Nguah, Owiti K’Akumu

“…This study examines the dynamics of Urban Land Use Succession (ULUS) in Upper Hill, Nairobi, highlighting the impact of neoliberal policies and private sector-led urban redevelopment. …”
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Intersectionalities of the Left and Right in Latin America and Europe. An exploration of contemporary political processes by Nicol A. Barria-Asenjo, Slavoj Žižek, Brian Willems, Ruben Balotol, Gonzalo Salas, Jesús Ayala-Colqui

“…Based on the populist discourse that exploits the discontent caused by neoliberal democracy, they gain followers for nationalist, cultural, and racist reasons that in the end are nothing more than right-wing deception to protect the rule of capital. …”
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