"Katrina was not just a hurricane. The death, destruction, and misery wreaked on New Orleans cannot be blamed on nature's fury alone. This volume of essays locates the root causes of the 2005 disaster squarely in neoliberal restructuring and examines how pro-market reforms are r…
State of insecurity: government of the precarious
by Butler, Judith, Lorey, Isabell, Lorey, Isabell
fromFutures
"After years of the welfare state, the rise of technology, combined with neoliberal governmental apparatuses, has established a new society of the precarious. In this new way of the world, productivity is not just connected to labor in the traditional sense of work hours, but mo…
State of insecurity: government of the precarious
by Butler, Judith, Lorey, Isabell, Lorey, Isabell
fromVerso Futures
"After years of the welfare state, the rise of technology, combined with neoliberal governmental apparatuses, has established a new society of the precarious. In this new way of the world, productivity is not just connected to labor in the traditional sense of work hours, but mo…
State of insecurity: government of the precarious
by Butler, Judith, Lorey, Isabell, Lorey, Isabell
fromFutures
"After years of the welfare state, the rise of technology, combined with neoliberal governmental apparatuses, has established a new society of the precarious. In this new way of the world, productivity is not just connected to labor in the traditional sense of work hours, but mo…
"Universities have been subjected to continuous government reforms since the 1980s, to make them 'entrepreneurial', 'efficient' and aligned to the predicted needs and challenges of a global knowledge economy. Under increasing pressure to pursue 'excellence' and 'innovation', man…
Towards new agendas for transformative global studies : an introduction / S A Hamed Hosseini, James Goodman, Sara C. Motta, and Barry K. Gill -- Reinventing the radical beyond the critical : towards a transformative scholarship in global studies / S A Hamed Hosseini and Barry K.…
"The Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies provides diverse and cutting-edge perspectives on this fast-changing field. For thirty years the world has been caught in a long global interregnum, plunging from one crisis to the next and witnessing the emergence of new,…
This book takes as its point of departure the observation that much of the critical discussion of the European political economy and the Eurozone crisis has focused upon an impending sense that solidaristic achievements built up during the first thirty years of the post-war peri…