Neoliberalism is the overarching political-economic trend of our times, and for this reason it must be better understood by young people everywhere.. Harvey defines neoliberalism as a theory of practise that proposes that “human well-being can best be advanced by liberating individual entrepreneurial freedoms and skills within an institutional framework characterized by strong private property rights, free markets, and free trade”1. Harvey’s definition is helpful because it places boundaries around an idea that cannot truly be understood as a singular project or policy. Other thinkers agree that neoliberalism defies suck simplification. Peck and Tickell argues that neoliberalism is an elite intellectual project, a set of policies and practices and an ideology. Neoliberalism, he suggests on page 48, cannot even be easily distinguished from its ‘others’, since “as a (more or less successively) reactionary, reactive, opportunist, mutable experimental, diffuse and destructively creative order, neoliberalism necessarily internalizes, absorbs, and symbiotically adjusts with its others, the spatially and temporally variegated form of actually
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Peck & Tickell, 2007; Larner, 2000), this paper argues that neoliberlization defies easy definition because of it’s many processes and facets. The Paper builds this argument in three stages, using Canada’s political landscape as a case stud whenever possible. First, neoliberlization as a political-economic theory is discussed. Next, it is described as a political project beginning in Canada in the early 1980s. Finally, neoliberalism as an ideology is described by referencing contemporary research on anti-poverty sentiment in Canada. The paper concludes, with a summary of arguments, and speculates about opportunities for people to resists neoliberalism through individual and collecting
Peck & Tickell, 2007; Larner, 2000), this paper argues that neoliberlization defies easy definition because of it’s many processes and facets. The Paper builds this argument in three stages, using Canada’s political landscape as a case stud whenever possible. First, neoliberlization as a political-economic theory is discussed. Next, it is described as a political project beginning in Canada in the early 1980s. Finally, neoliberalism as an ideology is described by referencing contemporary research on anti-poverty sentiment in Canada. The paper concludes, with a summary of arguments, and speculates about opportunities for people to resists neoliberalism through individual and collecting