The term “neoliberalism” has a rich history but has it run its course as an accurate concept when so many people have such different understandings of what it means?
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A new coalition government between the Labour and New Zealand First parties signals a move away from neoliberalism towards ‘capitalism with a human face’.
Governments gently cajoling people towards better life choices is only one side of the nudge theory.
We need to work out how to save capitalism from itself.
While both parties may have set out to modernise and renew their ideologies, the ALP’s and Labour’s attempts to marry the old and new instead precipitated two separate identity crises.
Differences in attitudes toward globalisation makes cooperation between the world’s leading economies extremely difficult.
Once a sport associated with anti-colonialism, cricket in the Caribbean has become a career path for young men with dreams of wealth and glamour.
European football matches allow African fans to partake in the aspirational dreams exported worldwide by the Premier League or the Champions League.
We may think of current reactionary politics as radical and new, but unchecked mercantilism has always elicited a fierce backlash from both left and right. Here’s what history tells us about today.
Protests in South Africa are about more than just service delivery of basic services such as water and electricity. They reflect a wider crisis about the failure to build a more equitable society.
‘Women Who Work’ attempts to present itself as an apolitical work. But no narratives ever are – and it’s especially the case for those that anxiously seek to appear that way.
Labour must develop its pro-social and pro-working class agenda for an electorate that has been failed by globalisation and EU integration.
France must now choose between two candidates with strongly opposing visions. The outcome of the May 7 run-off could radically alter France, as well as its position in Europe and in the world.
The middle class concept in Africa has remained vague and limited to number crunching. The minimum threshold for entering it in monetary terms was critically vulnerable to a setback into poverty.
A move that could shut an independent university in Budapest poses fundamental questions about European values.
Recent elections in Latin America have suggested a retreat from left-wing politics and populist leaders. But results from Ecuador’s 2017 presidential election suggest otherwise.
Leo Zeilig’s novel features a superbly crafted cast of characters. It’s a page turner for readers interested in the profound questions of radical politics and humanity.
The famous slogan of the 1970s that ‘women who want equality with men lack ambition’ still rings true today.
Increasing inequality, environmental degradation, financial instability – it’s clear the current system is broken.
People are unhappy with the current state of affairs – but this is happening despite globalisation, not because of it.
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Distinguished Reserach Professor, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer in Politics, Massey University
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Emerita Professor, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Adelaide
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Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Professor of Political Economy, University of the Witwatersrand
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Assistant Professor, Social Work, Dalhousie University
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Dean, Institute of Human and Social sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, Birmingham City University
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Professor of Global Politics, University of Southampton
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Postgraduate Associate at the Institute of Latin American Studies, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor in American & Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, Brock University
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Professor of Organisational Studies, University of Sydney
