Poverty And Neoliberalism

Author : Ray Bush
Publisher : Third World in Global Politics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poverty and Neoliberalism written by Ray Bush and published by Third World in Global Politics. This book was released on 2007-05-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critique of the way powerful institutions support economics and politics that sustain poverty and keep the rich in power

Author : Seth Donnelly
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583677674
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lie of Global Prosperity written by Seth Donnelly and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deconstruction of the neoliberal placations about global capitalism, exposing the inequalities of global poverty “We’re making headway on global poverty,” trills Bill Gates. “Decline of Global Extreme Poverty Continues,” reports the World Bank. “How did the global poverty rate halve in 20 years?” inquires The Economist. Seth Donnelly answers: “It didn’t!” In fact, according to Donnelly, virtually nothing about these glad tidings proclaiming plummeting global poverty rates is true. It’s just that trend-setting neoliberal experts and institutions need us to believe that global capitalism, now unfettered in the wake of the Cold War and bolstered by Information Technology, has ushered in a new phase of international human prosperity. This short book deconstructs the assumption that global poverty has fallen dramatically, and lays bare the spurious methods of poverty measurement and data on which the dominant prosperity narrative depends. Here is carefully researched documentation that global poverty—and the inequalities and misery that flourish within it—remains massive, afflicting the majority of the world’s population. Donnelly goes further to analyze just how global poverty, rather than being reduced, is actually reproduced by the imperatives of capital accumulation on a global scale. Just as the global, environmental catastrophe cannot be resolved within capitalism, rooted as it is in contemporary mechanisms of exploitation and plunder, neither can human poverty be effectively eliminated by neoliberal “advances.”

Author : Ray Bush
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poverty and Neoliberalism written by Ray Bush and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2007-05-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do so many people worldwide suffer hunger and poverty when there is enough food and other resources globally to prevent it? This book shows how famine and food insecurity is an essential part of modern capitalism. Although trade, debt relief, and development initiatives are important, they do not alter the structure of the global economy and the poverty that is created by processes like privatization, trade liberalization, and market reform. Despite the rhetoric of the World Bank and the G8, high levels of poverty actually sustain western wealth and power. But there is some hope for change. Using case studies from Egypt and North Africa, Nigeria, Sudan, and elsewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa, Ray Bush illustrates that there is resistance to neoliberal policies, and that struggles over line, mining, and resources can shape real alternatives to existing globalization.

Author : David Alan Craig
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134363761
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Development Beyond Neoliberalism? written by David Alan Craig and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is among the first to take the poverty reduction paradigm as its central focus. Offering a comprehensive introduction, overview and critique, it traces the emergence of the framework and illustrates its consequences with global case studies.

Author : Joe Soss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226768767
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disciplining the Poor written by Joe Soss and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume lays out the underlying logic of contemporary poverty governance in the United States. The authors argue that poverty governance has been transformed in the United States by two significant developments.

Author : Loïc Wacquant
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822392259
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Punishing the Poor written by Loïc Wacquant and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-22 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but to the social insecurity spawned by the fragmentation of wage labor and the shakeup of the ethnoracial hierarchy. It partakes of a broader reconstruction of the state wedding restrictive “workfare” and expansive “prisonfare” under a philosophy of moral behaviorism. This paternalist program of penalization of poverty aims to curb the urban disorders wrought by economic deregulation and to impose precarious employment on the postindustrial proletariat. It also erects a garish theater of civic morality on whose stage political elites can orchestrate the public vituperation of deviant figures—the teenage “welfare mother,” the ghetto “street thug,” and the roaming “sex predator”—and close the legitimacy deficit they suffer when they discard the established government mission of social and economic protection. By bringing developments in welfare and criminal justice into a single analytic framework attentive to both the instrumental and communicative moments of public policy, Punishing the Poor shows that the prison is not a mere technical implement for law enforcement but a core political institution. And it reveals that the capitalist revolution from above called neoliberalism entails not the advent of “small government” but the building of an overgrown and intrusive penal state deeply injurious to the ideals of democratic citizenship. Visit the author’s website.

Author : Ian Cummins
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447334825
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poverty, Inequality and Social Work written by Ian Cummins and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a critical, sociological analysis of the domino effect of neoliberalism and austerity politics on the role of social work and wider welfare provision. It argues that social work should move away from the resultant emphasis on risk management and bureaucracy, and return to a focus on relational and community approaches as the cornerstone of practice. Applying theoretical frameworks to practice, including those of Bourdieu and the recent work of Wacquant, the book examines the development of neoliberal ideas and their impact on social welfare. It explores the implications of this across a range of areas of social work practice, including work with children and families, working with asylum seekers and refugees and mental health social work.

Author : John Gledhill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429720661
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neoliberalism, Transnationalization And Rural Poverty written by John Gledhill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carlos Salinas's government drew praise from many academic commentators and foreign governments for its boldness in embarking on neoliberal economic reforms that tackled some of the shibboleths of the Mexican revolutionary tradition and for its supposedly astute political management of change. This book offers a more critical understanding of the e

Author : Wendy Brown
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231550537
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Ruins of Neoliberalism written by Wendy Brown and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the West, hard-right leaders are surging to power on platforms of ethno-economic nationalism, Christianity, and traditional family values. Is this phenomenon the end of neoliberalism or its monstrous offspring? In the Ruins of Neoliberalism casts the hard-right turn as animated by socioeconomically aggrieved white working- and middle-class populations but contoured by neoliberalism’s multipronged assault on democratic values. From its inception, neoliberalism flirted with authoritarian liberalism as it warred against robust democracy. It repelled social-justice claims through appeals to market freedom and morality. It sought to de-democratize the state, economy, and society and re-secure the patriarchal family. In key works of the founding neoliberal intellectuals, Wendy Brown traces the ambition to replace democratic orders with ones disciplined by markets and traditional morality and democratic states with technocratic ones. Yet plutocracy, white supremacy, politicized mass affect, indifference to truth, and extreme social disinhibition were no part of the neoliberal vision. Brown theorizes their unintentional spurring by neoliberal reason, from its attack on the value of society and its fetish of individual freedom to its legitimation of inequality. Above all, she argues, neoliberalism’s intensification of nihilism coupled with its accidental wounding of white male supremacy generates an apocalyptic populism willing to destroy the world rather than endure a future in which this supremacy disappears.

Author : Vincent Lyon-Callo
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442600861
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inequality, Poverty, and Neoliberal Governance written by Vincent Lyon-Callo and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a terrific book. Lyon-Callo's descriptions shatter stereotypes about homeless people and focus instead on the dysfunction of the system that allegedly serves them." - Susan Greenbaum, University of South Florida