Postneoliberalism – A beginning debate

Development Dialogue 2009: No. 51, January

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Summary

In the last 30 years, neoliberal policies have been implemented in almost every society on the globe, resulting in fairly specifi c ‘neoliberal’ confi gurations. This volume has been compiled in time for the World Social Forum in January 2009 in Belém in order to initiate a new debate. It off ers various responses to the negative impacts of neoliberalism and its growing inability to deal with the upcoming contradictions and crises. The contributors are mainly scholar-activists from diff erent parts of the world, who present perspectives on social, political and/or economic transformations. They deal with shifting terrains of social struggles and compromises, taking place on diff erent scales, in various contexts and by diff erent actors. All postneoliberal approaches have in common that they constitute a rupture with specifi c aspects of ‘neoliberalism’. The contributors explore diff erent aspects of a possible postneoliberalism, focusing on continuities and discontinuities, which vary in depth, complexity and scope, and relate to everyday practices as well as comprehensive concepts.

Content

Preface
Henning Melber

Postneoliberalism : catch-all word or valuable analytical and political concept? – Aims of a beginning debate
Ulrich Brand and Nicola Sekler

Ways out of the crisis of neoliberalism
Michael Brie

Postneoliberalism and its bifurcations
Ana Esther Ceceña

Postneoliberalism and post-Fordism – Is there a new period of capitalist mode of production?
Alex Demirovic

Postneoliberalism from and as a counter-hegemonic perspective
Nicola Sekler

Postneoliberalism or postcapitalism? The failure of neoliberalism in the fi nancial market crisis
Elmar Altvater

‘Neoliberalism’ and development policy – Dogma or progress?
Kurt Bayer

Environmental crises and the ambiguous postneoliberalising of nature
Ulrich Brand

The crisis of neoliberalism and the impasse of the union movement
Gregory Albo

Women peasants, food security and biodiversity in the crisis of neoliberalism
Christa Wichterich

On recent projects and experiences of the suffi ciency economy: a critique
Chanida Chanyapate and Alec Bamford

Struggles against Wal-Martisation and neoliberal competitiveness in (southern) China – Towards postneoliberalism as an alternative?
Ngai-Ling Sum

Postneoliberalism in Latin America
Emir Sader

Notes on postneoliberalism in Argentina
Verónica Gago and Diego Sztulwark

Realistic postneoliberalism – A view from South Africa
Patrick Bond