Post-neoliberalism Research Articles

O “Pós-Neoliberalismo” e a Reconfiguração do Capitalismo na América Latina

Today it is perplexing that the right wing has won support among popular and middle class sectors in Latin America, even in countries where left and center-left governments had improved their income and living conditions. But the advance of conservative social ideas and practices are not so recent nor have they arisen by spontaneous generation. 10 years ago I made the warning - as can be seen in this paper that is now published in Portuguese - that the strategy of the dominant, deployed since the 1990s to stabilize capitalist restructuring, was showing success in building a new bourgeois hegemony. The dominant strategy gained legitimacy because it was presented as “anti-neoliberal” or “post-neoliberal”, after having imposed a falsified notion about “neoliberalism”, and after appropriating the lexicon of so-called critical thinking. The stabilizing strategy had as one of its axes a profound reconfiguration of society, presenting as “progressive” ideas and policies elaborated by neo-conservatism since the 1980s. That “post-neoliberalism” elaborated from the system influenced left governments to different degrees , but it became the “mainstream” in the social sciences in Latin America.

The Contribution of Hugo Chávez to an Understanding of Post-Neoliberalism

When Hugo Chávez was president, he pronounced the death of many things—the constitution, the old “partyarchy,” Venezuela’s “Fourth Republic,” and the Free Trade Area of the Americas, among others. Since his own death in 2013, scholars, activists, and citizens have contributed to a rich discussion of his legacy. Part of that legacy is an understanding of post-neoliberalism that recognizes its competing and contradictory components, some of them seeking to complement, improve, and reverse neoliberal policies or overcome neoliberal logics and others constituting important remnants of neoliberalism.Durante su presidencia, Hugo Chávez declaró la muerte de muchas cosas: la constitución, el viejo “partidocracia,” la Cuarta República de Venezuela y el Tratado de Libre Comercio de las Américas, entre otros. Desde su muerte en 2013, un grupo variado de estudiosos, activistas y ciudadanos ha llevado a cabo una rica discusión sobre su legado. Una parte importante de su legado es el entender que el post-neoliberalismo tiene componentes contrapuestos y contradictorios, y reconocer que algunos de ellos buscan complementar, mejorar y revertir las políticas neoliberales o superar la lógica neoliberal y otros importantes vestigios constituyentes del neoliberalismo.

The Nature of Illegality Under Neoliberalism and Post‐Neoliberalism

The Nature of Illegality Under Neoliberalism and Post‐Neoliberalism

Post Neo-Liberalism and the Humanities: What the Repressive State Apparatus Means for Universities

In this article we explore how neo-liberal and post neo-liberal policies threaten the humanities in post-secondary education as a potential site of democratic dialogue and social transformation. We distinguish between neo-liberalism and post neo-liberalism on the basis of the latter’s increased police suppression of democratic dissent. We are especially concerned with the impact of the repressive state apparatus on the critical public spaces traditionally provided by a humanities education. In response to this threat, we propose encouraging university faculty to assume a far more active political role in educating the general public on the relationship between the humanities and democratic societies.

Neoliberalism, working-class subjects and higher education

This is a moment of post neo-liberalism in which aspiration and the constant working on qualifications is seen as a central trope of current modes of governance of higher education, alongside the contrary evidence about working-class students' access to universities in the UK and elsewhere. It is claimed that working-class children lack aspiration, which they appear not to have gained despite all the attempts and government policies. This paper explores the issue of working-class students going on to higher education by thinking about the centrality of fantasy and imagination, using the work of Felix Guattari to bring together working-class imagination and imagining the university of the future.