Neoliberal Doctrine Meets the Eastern Bloc: Resistance, Appropriation and Purification in Post-Socialist Spaces

Hirt, Sonia; Sellar, Christian; Young, Craig

doi:10.1080/09668136.2013.822711

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“…In doing so, it argues that these policies do not ‘trickle down’ to the local context and, ‘on hitting the ground’, work following a clearly predetermined pathway. Rather, the specific trajectory depends on a rich variety of national and local responses which modify the mainstream theory and ‘convert it into “actually existing”, context‐dependent realities’ (Hirt et al ., : 5).…”

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Mutating Neoliberalism: The Promotion of Italian Investors in Slovakia before and after the Global Financial Crisis

Sellar

Pástor

2015

Int J Urban Regional Res

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In the context of the literature on 'actually existing neoliberalisms', this article analyzes the policies and services supporting Italian foreign direct investment (FDI) in Slovakia. It identifies a group of organizations, both Slovak and Italian, which shape and deliver neoliberal pro-FDI policies. By studying such an 'investment promotion community' (IPC) before and after the global financial crisis of 2009, and during Italy's prolonged crisis, this article shows both the persistence and adaptability of neoliberal policies and institutions. In so doing, it highlights some of the transnational flows underpinning the 'domestication' of neoliberalism in Slovakia. These findings support recent literature arguing that post-crisis neoliberalism can be interpreted as a stunted Polanyian double movement, in which the state has improved some of its regulatory functions but without questioning the overarching neoliberal principles. Specifically, it shows that FDI policies and the support of Italian investors rest upon a professional community that has not changed much since the 2009 crisis. This community played a crucial role in embedding neoliberal rationalities in Slovakia and supports the persistence of this ideology in the post-crisis environment.

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“…In the FSU and CEE, Hirt et al . (: 11) identified three broad and overlapping ‘modulations’ of neoliberalism: resistance, appropriation and purification. In a nutshell, they argue that local elite groups intensively confronted neoliberal ideas in the post‐socialist period.…”

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Mutating Neoliberalism: The Promotion of Italian Investors in Slovakia before and after the Global Financial Crisis

Sellar

Pástor

2015

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…Russian neoliberalism is tightly connected to nationalism, which means that neoliberalism cannot be mentioned without reference to the building of the post--Soviet nation. During the Cold War, the Soviet economy was the 'arch-enemy' of neoliberalism (Hirt, Sellar & Young 2013: 1247, but neoliberalism in post--Soviet Russia is best described as national neoliberalism. Peter Rutland concludes: 'we can see a [Russian] variety of national neoliberalism emerging from the reforms of the 1990s' (Rutland 2013: 358), which points to the paradox of a strong, authoritarian state guaranteeing individual freedom and private enterprise.…”

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Svetlana Baskova’s response to Russian national neoliberalism in For Marx …

Kristensen¹

2017

Contemporary Cinema and Neoliberal Ideology

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“…More recent changes in the housing system are aff ected by the laissez faire neoliberal att itude of local state and substantial involvement of private developers that generate new social inequalities (Hirt, S. et al 2013;Kovács, Z. and Hegedűs, G. 2014). The growing intensity of post-socialist residential diff erentiation in urban sett ings are observed through underlying processes that contribute to segregation, suburbanisation, gentrifi cation and socio-economic downgrading of certain neighbourhoods (Sýkora, L. 2005;Kährik, A. and Tammaru, T. 2008;Van Kempen, R. and Murie, A.…”

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Intra-urban residential differentiation in the post-Soviet city: the case of Riga, Latvia

Krišjāne

Bērziņš

2014

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Cities in many Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries have transformed rapidly since the political and socioeconomic restructuring started in the early 1990s. Economic reforms, growing income inequalities, changes in housing system and selective residential mobility are resulting in increasing socio-spatial diff erentiation among urban neighbourhoods also in Riga. In addition, litt le is known about the ethnic dimension of intra-urban residential diff erentiation, despite the existence of sizeable minority populations. The focus on ethnicity is important, since Riga is the only capital city in the Baltic States where the ethnic majority is outnumbered by the non-Latvian minority. This paper provides empirical evidence about socio-spatial diff erentiation in Riga according to its ecological structure. Our aim is to examine the characteristics of the inhabitants by distinctive types of urban neighbourhoods with particular interest on ethnicity. The analysis is based on a recent sample survey that was carried out in 2012 and 2013. The results reveal that characteristics of population subgroups diff er among urban zones with regard to ethnic origin, age, household size and income. Less pronounced are diff erences by education, migration background and family type. The conclusion is that Riga is a relatively mixed city at the beginning of the 21 st century.

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Neoliberal Doctrine Meets the Eastern Bloc: Resistance, Appropriation and Purification in Post-Socialist Spaces

Cited by 28 publications

References 49 publications

Mutating Neoliberalism: The Promotion of Italian Investors in Slovakia before and after the Global Financial Crisis

Mutating Neoliberalism: The Promotion of Italian Investors in Slovakia before and after the Global Financial Crisis

Svetlana Baskova’s response to Russian national neoliberalism in For Marx …

Intra-urban residential differentiation in the post-Soviet city: the case of Riga, Latvia

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