David Harvey: Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism.

Holgersen, Ståle

doi:10.18261/issn1500-1571-2016-02-03-13

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“…In analyzing neoliberal structures, this article draws on the theoretical writings of David Harvey (2005Harvey ( , 2007Harvey ( , 2014. For Harvey, the primary driver of neoliberalism is establishing a comprehensive self-regulating market accompanied by legal mechanisms "to redistribute, rather than to generate, wealth and income … T]his was [and is] achieved under the rubric of accumulation by dispossession" (Harvey, 2007, p. 159).…”

Section: Neoliberal Structures and Revolutionary Agencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Revolution, Change, and Democratic Transition in Egypt Since 2011: A Critical Political Economy Approach

Koussa

2023

Contemporary Review of the Middle East

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The causes, consequences, and trajectory of the 2011 uprising in Egypt have been and continue to be a subject of scholarly debate. This article is situated within this debate with a particular focus on the role of political economy factors in engendering democracy and democratic transition. The key research objectives are to address why the Egyptian people came together in 2011 in an unprecedented show of solidarity to overthrow the Hosni Mubarak regime, to evaluate the interpretive frames for this uprising from two overlapping but fundamentally opposed perspectives—liberal democracy and radical democracy; to assess the extent to which the adoption of neoliberalism, accompanied by poverty and inequality, played a role in fomenting the countermovement against the regime; and to identify the underlying structures and process that links the 2011 uprising to the regime of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The article concludes that the imposition of a neoliberal regime of capital accumulation, with dispossession and upward wealth redistribution at its heart, created the conditions for the rise of radical democratic mass movements that overthrew both Mubarak and Mohammed Morsi. The article further underlines that the regime of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi not only halted the democratic reforms demanded by the Egyptian people but continues, at a faster pace, to impose the same neoliberal economic restructuring that catalyzed the uprising in the first place.

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Section: Neoliberal Structures and Revolutionary Agencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Revolution, Change, and Democratic Transition in Egypt Since 2011: A Critical Political Economy Approach

Koussa

2023

Contemporary Review of the Middle East

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“…The early 1970s constitute a key time period in the transition to neoliberalism. According to David Harvey, “the liberation of money creation from its money‐commodity restraints in the early 1970s happened at a time when profitability prospects in productive activities were particularly low and when capital began to experience the impact of an inflexion point in the trajectory of exponential growth” (Harvey, 2014, p. 240). This inflexion point in the trajectory of exponential growth is the first impact of a physical limit on post‐World War II capitalism.…”

Section: Economics Energy and Capitalismmentioning

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Energy and spirit: Extraction, thermodynamics, and change

Crockett

2023

Dialog

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This article suggests new ways to think about energy and thermodynamics beyond an extractive, fossil‐fuel model. The predominant economic model of the modern world has been driven by the extraction and exploitation of fossil fuels—first coal and then oil. These are powerful forces, although their development is more complicated than we might suspect. At the same time, they influence the new science of thermodynamics, which is tied to heat and heat engines that are fueled by carbon‐based inputs extracted from the earth. By attending to the work of Nicolas Georgescu‐Roegen, however, we can see how energy and thermodynamics can be linked to a different economic model that is not primarily extractive. And this opens up to new perspectives on energy and change, including one that views energy more explicitly in terms of spirit. We can think about energy as something that avoids the dichotomy of matter and spirit in a way such that it participates in both.

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“…On a global scale, in spite of achievements and success during the late 1970s to overcome the "stagflation" period (Steger & Roy, 2010), free market policies are one of the factors contributing to the spread of economic inequality all over the world along with other consequences such as exhaustion of resources, poverty, and corrosion of cultures and liberal democratic institutions (Bell, 2019;Ostry et al, 2016). The phrase "Disaster Capitalism" was used by Naomi Klein (2007) to make reference to the required crises implemented by free-market politicians and economists for institutionalizing the anti-welfare policies; the systematic crises that are necessary for reproducing capitalist governance, through which its instabilities get modified and adjusted to the status quo of each era (Harvey, 2014).…”

Section: Post-war Period Structural Adjustment Policies and The Forma...mentioning

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Outsiders on the storm: Precarity, persecution, and despair in Iranian political‐economic context

Shahbazi

Mortazavi

Lavasani

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Appl Psychoanal Studies

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Understanding the political and socio-economic origins of the psyche depends on examining hegemonic psychodynamics in society and their resonance in the mental space of individuals. This study explains the dominant psychic atmosphere of Iranian participants in the Iranian political and economic context. A qualitative study was conducted through deep interviews with 17 participants from both upper and lower social classes. Based on the results, it seems that through the encounter of citizens with each other and the dominant order, the implemented strategies lead to feelings of insecurity and precarity which loosen the social libidinal ties among citizens and hinder society from reaching integration and cohesion.

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David Harvey: Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism.

Cited by 32 publications

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Revolution, Change, and Democratic Transition in Egypt Since 2011: A Critical Political Economy Approach

Revolution, Change, and Democratic Transition in Egypt Since 2011: A Critical Political Economy Approach

Energy and spirit: Extraction, thermodynamics, and change

Outsiders on the storm: Precarity, persecution, and despair in Iranian political‐economic context

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