Economic Crisis, the Coercive Neoliberal State, and Popular Contestations

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Economic Crisis, the Coercive Neoliberal State, and Popular Contestations
Original language description
This workshop, which was organized as a part of the Gellner Seminar in Prague, hosted a foremost US specialist on urban education, economic globalization and activist scholarship, Prof. Pauline Lipman. In her presentation, she focused on how across various geographical regions, the state?s response to fiscal crisis is to impose austerity on working and middle classes and further privatize public goods, expanding opportunities for speculative investment. In the USA this strategy is particularly apparentin cities where local governments are privatizing public infrastructure and institutions, such as bridges and schools, cutting public sector workers? wages and social benefits, and imposing budget cuts and increased user fees for public services. This isan acceleration of neoliberal strategies that have reshaped US cities over the past two decades and are, in various ways, globalized. In the USA, neoliberalism is intertwined with the cultural and structural logics of race, producing new
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2013
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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