Polarizing development : alternatives to neoliberalism and the crisis / edited by Lucia Pradella and Thomas Marois.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pradella, Lucia, editor.

Marois, Thomas, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ideology.

Neoliberalism.

Philosophy, Marxist.

Capitalism.

Developing countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Pluto Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A new generation of Marxian scholars discusses the modern age of development under neoliberalism in this collection of essays.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Foreword

1. Polarising 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

4. 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 Privatised 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 Marina-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 Sidelines: the Challenges of Social Transformation in Neocolonial Africa - Baba Aye

20. Challenging Neoliberalism in the Arab World - Adam Hanieh

21. Socialist Feminist Alternatives to Neoliberalism in Turkey - Demet Ozmen Yilmaz

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

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 20, 2014).

ISBN:

9781783711826

1783711825

9781783711819

1783711817

OCLC:

887934213