Globalization, Neoliberalism, Power & Social Exclusion

A Matriz do Poder. Uma visão analítica da Globalização e da Anti-Globalização no Mundo Contemporâneo

by Sandra Rodrigues Balão

Published by MGI Ed.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Journal Special Issue: Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies

by Karen Soldatic

CALL FOR PAPERS:
Journal Special Issue: Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies
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Journal Special Issue: Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies

Disability and Colonialism: (dis)encounters and anxious intersectionalities

Guest Editors: Shaun Grech (Manchester Metropolitan University) & Karen Soldatic (University of New South Wales)

We are pleased to announce that we will be guest editing a special edition entitled Disability and Colonialism: (dis)encounters and anxious intersectionalities on behalf of the established refereed journal Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies.

The aim of this special issue is to position disability within the colonial (the real and imagined), through which to explore a range of (often anxious) intersectionalities as disability is theorised, constructed, and lived as a post/neocolonial condition. While postcolonial theory and associated fields (e.g. critical theory, cultural studies etc.) have engaged with race, gender and ethnicity in the exploration of themes of identity, representation, space, historicity and the neocolonial, they have almost wholly bypassed disabled people- paradoxically limited to the subjectification of the able-bodied, or rather disembodying colonialism. Westerncentric fields of study such as disability studies often remain detached from the global South, the histories, contexts and cultures of these specific geopolitical spaces, and how disability is ontologically constructed and lived through a history replete with signifiers of power and empire and that frame the global. While some have adopted colonialism as a metaphor for the experience of disability (see for example Shakespeare, 2000), of colonized bodies by the medical profession, the colonial encounter per se, its creation of and implications for the disabled subject, remains inadequately theorised. In turn, disability is persistently removed from history and any contemplation of the post or neocolonial and efforts (discursive or material) at decolonizing these spaces and those within.

The special issue aims to transcend disciplinary, epistemological, methodological, spatial and historical boundaries. Engaging indigenous, post/neocolonial, disability studies, critical theory, psychology, Latin American Cultural Studies, and a range of other perspectives and literatures, and prioritising voices from the global South, we invite authors to engage in critical debate around colonialism to explore a range of thematic concerns (not exclusively):

• Colonial representations and the construction of the disabled body and mind
• The violence and disablism of colonialism
• Intersections of race, ethnicity, culture, gender and disability
• Empire and the domestication of bodies: globalisation, economics and beyond
• Disabled identities, metaphors and language, and their roles in subjugation
• From the colonial to the post/neocolonial: disability and contemporary lineages of imperialism
• Social identities and visions of disability
• Colonial medicalisation: identifying, labelling and ‘treating’ the disabled body
• The Christianising mission, biblical renditions and the disabled subject
• Decolonizing epistemologies, practices and lives: renegotiating power and contemplating global justice

We encourage authors to engage work on Southern theory and movements and approaches prioritising and promoting Southern epistemologies and counter-hegemonic knowledges emerging from struggles for justice.

Those wishing to submit an article, please email your full manuscript to both Shaun Grech (S.Grech@mmu.ac.uk) and Karen Soldatic (ajks123@bigpond.com). Please insert ‘Submission for Disability and Colonialism Special Issue’ in the subject line. Manuscripts will be sent anonymously for double peer review, and comments and recommendations relayed to authors through the editors.

Articles should not exceed 8,000 words in length, and include a 300 word abstract. The journal style guide is available here: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1369-801X&linktype=44.

Manuscripts should be submitted by no later than: 1st January 2013

Neoliberal Construction of Crisis: Greece as an Example

by Athanasios Marvakis

in German

To understand the Greek-European “crisis” we must get rid of the notion of capitalism as a self-maintaining system, a... more To understand the Greek-European “crisis” we must get rid of the notion of capitalism as a self-maintaining system, a notion that becomes an apotheosis of capitalism despite our personal critical intentions. We must look for “subjective” interventions and interests which contribute or even construct what we perceive as “crisis”. In regard to the particular Greek context it is necessary to recognise various interlocking hinges which mediate between dominant politics and resistances: citizens as “accomplices” or “enemies” of the state; the relationship between a rudimentary and a very unjust social state; the corruption of the Greek population as a strategic deal; and a particular political culture of the Left that is founded on “ideological territorialism” and sectarianism.

The Intersectional Determinants of Systematic Global Health Inequality: The Effects of International Policy

by Laura Robinson

Paper for intro Social Health class - 2011

Understanding the balance of power in Eastern Iceland: Some remarks on the Saga of the Men of Svinafell.

by gregory cattaneo

Forthcoming in Sredniowiecze polskie i powszechne, Vol. 8, Publication of the University of Silesia, Poland, 2012.

The objective of this study is to analyze the conflict presented in a less known saga: the Saga of the Men of... more The objective of this study is to analyze the conflict presented in a less known saga: the Saga of the Men of Svinafell (Svínfellinga saga). Until now none of the studies dealing with conflict in Iceland took this saga into consideration. Moreover facing the scarcity of studies concerning the Eastern Quarter, it seems interesting to look at this saga under this scope in order to offer another perspective on mechanisms of conflicts’ resolution in Medieval Iceland and more precisely around the middle of the 13th century

Neoliberalism

by Simon Springer

Springer, S. 2012. Neoliberalism. The Ashgate Research Companion to Critical Geopolitics. Eds. K. Dodds, M. Kuus, and J. Sharp. Burlington, VT: Ashgate.

This chapter seeks to demonstrate how a critical geopolitics has contributed to a reading of neoliberalism that... more This chapter seeks to demonstrate how a critical geopolitics has contributed to a reading of neoliberalism that challenges the assumed inevitability and all-encompassing ‘bulldozer effect’ that pervades in popular media accounts of free market capitalism and its colloquial understanding as ‘globalization’. I emphasize neoliberalism’s mongrel character, by attending to the series of mutations, hybridizations, and variegations across space that foreground the role of geography in creating multiple forms of processual and unfolding neoliberalizations, rather than a singular and static neoliberalism. I then turn my attention to the continuing role of the state and address how discourse functions to secure consent for neoliberalism’s particular political rationality. I hope to remind readers that although the role of the state has become subtler under neoliberalism through a reconfiguration of the citizen-subject via processes of governmentality, this does not mean that it has entirely exited the political scene. To the contrary, I argue that the transformed role of the state under neoliberalization is susceptible to expressions of authoritarianism and violence, which brings the state back into plain view as it comes into conflict with those individuals who have been marginalized by neoliberalism’s belligerent regulatory reforms and discriminatory policy initiatives.

“Capitalism Reorganised: Social Justice after Neo-liberalism”, Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, vol. 17, issue 3 (Sept. 2010), pp. 390-406.

by Albena Azmanova

The article traces the emergence of “reorganized” capitalism as consecutively the fourth modality of capitalism –... more The article traces the emergence of “reorganized” capitalism as consecutively the fourth modality of capitalism – after the 19th century entrepreneurial form, the post-liberal “organized” capitalism of the welfare state, and the “disorganized” neo-liberal model of the late 20th century. The features of the fourth modality emerge from an analysis of (1) the key dynamics of social stratification, (2) the matrix of state-society relations, and (3) the structure of electoral mobilization in advanced industrial democracies.

language, asylum and the national order (Current Anthropology 2009)

by Jan Blommaert

The three D's of welfare reform: disability, disgust and deservingness

by Karen Soldatic

Surviving the Assault? The Australian Disability Movement and the Neoliberal Workfare State

by Karen Soldatic

Appointment Time: Disability and Neoliberal Workfare Temporalities

by Karen Soldatic

Finding Ernesto: Temporary Labour Migration and Disabled Children’s Health

by Karen Soldatic

published in Journal of Population Research

Disability and Neoliberal State Formations.

by Karen Soldatic

Soldatic, K. and Meekosha, H. (2012) Disability and Neoliberal State Formations. In N. Watson, A. Roulstone and C. Thomas. Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies, London, Routledge, Chapter 15.

The Human Chain Is Not About Holding Hands

by Nicole Sunday Grove

published in the Journal of Critical Globalization Studies (Issue 5), 2012

This paper engages the notion of the 'human chain' as a way for academics to creatively translate the tactics of the... more This paper engages the notion of the 'human chain' as a way for academics to creatively translate the tactics of the Occupy movement so as to bring its concerns to bear upon global studies and the discipline of International Relations.

The Culture of Capitalism and the Crisis of Critique

by Arsalan Khan

Co-authored with Jason Hickel, published in Anthropological Quarterly (winter, 2012).

The Culture of Capitalism and the Crisis of Critique

by Jason Hickel

2012. With Arsalan Khan. Anthropological Quarterly 85(1).

Clearing space: an anatomy of urban renewal, social cleansing and everyday life in a Belgrade mahala

by Konstantin Kilibarda

This article examines recent shifts in Belgrade's urban geography and built environments, with an accent placed on... more This article examines recent shifts in Belgrade's urban geography and built environments, with an accent placed on landscapes of social cleansing, gentrification and commercialization accompanying Serbia's emerging neoliberal governmentality. It does so by exploring the convergent translocal discourses and institutional structures that provided financing, conditionality and legitimacy for the forcible displacement of a sizeable Roma community living under Belgrade's Gazela Bridge and their involuntary relocation into housing containers on the city's outskirts in late August 2009. The article juxtaposes the violence of this site-specific biopolitical intervention into Roma everyday life, which was executed by local city authorities and financed by European financial institutions, with the alternative strategies deployed by the community and its allies in contesting Belgrade's racialized urban restructuring. The Gazela episode illustrates how functional re-inscriptions of urban space for the translocal needs of capital can simultaneously generate both violent cartographies of dispossession and precarious forms of subaltern reterritorialization.

La formación del profesorado y su papel frente a los nuevos modelos socioeconómicos

by Estefanía Almenta

Autoras: Estefanía Almenta y Juana Muñoz, Universidad de Málaga.

ALMENTA, E. y MUÑOZ, J. (2011): “La formación del profesorado y su papel frente a los nuevos modelos socioeconómicos”, en Actas del I Congreso Internacional Reinventar la Profesión Docente, vol. 7., pp.252-260. ISBN: 978-84-693-7961-5.

Uno de los ejes fundamentales sobre los que pivotan las nuevas reformas educativas y las políticas que desde la OCDE... more Uno de los ejes fundamentales sobre los que pivotan las nuevas reformas educativas y las políticas que desde la OCDE se están promoviendo es la formación del profesorado. Desde las administraciones, las modificaciones que se están realizando están enraizadas con un discurso sobre el cambio educativo que promete justicia y equidad para todos pero que parece tener más que ver con fines electoralistas, de escaso calado a largo plazo y donde todos los sujetos involucrados en el hecho educativo son simples actores de un guión que no controlan y del que ni siquiera tienen voz.

Ya desde el final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial muchos esfuerzos se volcaron en modificar el sistema educativo en los países industrializados, en especial, durante la década de los sesenta y setenta. Ya en los ochenta se centraron en la formación del profesorado, la creación de nuevas instituciones y las formas de habilitar a los docentes. Sin embargo, ¿es ahora, en la sociedad de la información, de las tecnologías y el supuesto libre pensamiento cuando se están produciendo los cambios que son necesarios para mejorar la educación? ¿O las políticas educativas y por ende, la formación del profesorado responde a relaciones de poder donde poco se puede decir al respecto y el papel del docente es el de un mero intermediario de un conocimiento que dudosamente contribuye a la creación de una sociedad crítica y libre?

El objeto del presente trabajo es crear un espacio de debate y propuestas sobre los modelos actuales de formación del profesorado y sobre cómo se encaran los nuevos cambios. Si realmente las políticas que afectan a la formación de los docentes están comprometidas con los principios básicos de la educación, entiendo que el conocimiento no es aséptico y que un sistema educativo debe ser justo y equitativo, y si dan respuesta a un modelo donde el profesorado esté mejor cualificado, donde sea más autónomo, donde el docente no sea un simple burócrata.

Neoliberalising violence: of the exceptional and the exemplary in coalescing moments

by Simon Springer

Springer, S. 2012. Neoliberalising violence: of the exceptional and the exemplary in coalescing moments. Area 44 (2), 136-143.

This paper sets out to develop two related ideas. First, it seeks to identify how both violence and neoliberalism can... more This paper sets out to develop two related ideas. First, it seeks to identify how both violence and neoliberalism can be considered as moments. From this shared conceptualisation of process and fluidity, I argue that it becomes easier to recognise how these two phenomena actually converge. Building upon this conceived coalescence of neoliberalism and violence, the second aim is to recognise how the hegemony of neoliberalism positions it as an abuser, which facilitates the abandonment of those ‘Others’ who fall outside of neoliberal normativity. I argue that the widespread banishment of ‘Others’ under neoliberalism produces a ‘state of exception’, wherein because of its inherently dialectic nature, exceptional violence is transformed into exemplary violence. This metamorphosis occurs as aversion for alterity intensifies under neoliberalism and its associated violence against ‘Others’ comes to form the rule.

Migrants as Activist Citizens in the Crisis of Neoliberalism: Understanding the New Cycle of Struggles in Italy

by Federico Oliveri

draft under review for Citizenship Studies