Neoliberalism

Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) had been organizing long before 1994, but the New Year’s Day uprising is very significant to their beginnings as it propelled them onto a national and international spotlight. Rooted in their cause was anti-neoliberalism as it related to the indigenous struggle. The date of the revolution was not random, but chosen because it was the day that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect. The main concern for the rebels, many of whom…

"The New Right" supported neoliberalism. In the 1970s, western governments, academia, and media understood relationship between state and market according to the same liberal consensus in WWII. The "Golden Age of Capitalism" government, capital, and labor had reached uneasy agreement that markets produced social ruin when left to their own devices. The state needed to mitigate inequality to provide basic services and to even out capitalism's boom-bust cycle. "Neoliberalism" was first used by…

I have had vast extremes when visiting art museums. I remember going to the Nelson Atkins Museum as a high school field trip. After getting off the bus we were greeted by a docent that led us through the museum stopping at paintings of his choice and telling us about that painting and his opinions on it. While passing past others with just a brief description of the artist and art. There was no interaction, as students we were quiet, we listened, and we were quite bored. We never got a chance to…

Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer, trailblazer of the feminism, and a political philosopher who advocated the revolution and the women’s rights during the Enlightenment. And she was the first woman who asserted women’s rights. She is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Before the Enlightenment era, women cannot even fall under the category of human being. They didn’t have political rights, economical rights, rights to own property, and rights that were very fundamental…

distillery’s transformation from industrial production to commercial consumerism as a cultural arts hub is an example of such a pretext. That is, gentrification takes advantage of using creative art to sugar coat the effects of neoliberalism (Blackwell, 2006). Neoliberalism creates “landscapes of desirability” as does New Urbanism (Lehrer, 2006). Both of these economic schools of thought believe that a more economical and “urban” lifestyle is better suited to cities like Toronto to make for…

For instance, illegal graffiti escapes the dangerous ideals of oppressive neoliberalism. Under the extreme free-market capitalism-supporting model of neoliberalism, Henry Giroux argues, “everything either is for sale or is plundered for profit” (Giroux 1). Barring some rare exceptions, graffiti artists have mostly shunned opportunities to have their work exploited for…

The 21st century has seen the most temperature records broken in recorded history and since the 1950s, every continent has had a substantial increase in temperature. Increases which have led to abnormal changes in the weather such as wilder storms and hurricanes, as well as extensive droughts. You may come to ask yourself as to why this is happening and Naomi Klein believes she has the answer to your questions. Klein, an established author and a well known social activist, has written This…

it was not deterritorialized). Neoliberalism strives in flexible accumulation, where both physical capital and finance are allowed mobility. The state and labor became too powerful and costly under Fordism, causing capital to revolt with globalization and neoliberalization, including free…

slash DACA leading to the deportation of even more immigrants, it begs the question: why do immigrants choose to come to the United States in the first place? In the case of those who emigrated from the Latin Americas, factors of violence and neoliberalism catapulted their countries into immense instability and polarized class inequalities causing them to leave for the more stable shores of America (Main) (Murphy 4-17-18). Government policies tried to control this mass exodus, but other policies…

which created women who are willing to spend money on hosts and men who are willing to provide those women hosting services, which developed hosting industry in Tokyo. To discuss the rise of the industry, it is crucial to understand the role neoliberalism plays in the post industry society. In the 1980s, the governmental policies on economic and labor systems emphasized individual freedom of choice, and this neoliberal ideal urged young men, including hosts to seek individual success by…