Not-quite-neoliberal natures in Latin America: An introduction

Hybrid regulatory landscapes: The human right to water, variegated neoliberal water governance, and policy transfer in Cape Town, South Africa, and Accra, Ghana

“…We are nonetheless influenced by scholarship on counter-neoliberal trends in water governance (e.g. Bakker, 2013;de Freitas, Marston, & Bakker, 2015;Harris & Roa-García, 2013; Roa-García, Urteaga-Crovetto, & Bustamante-Zenteno, 2015). iv In South Africa, interviews were conducted with representatives from the City of Cape Town, two local NGOs (one of which is prominent in policy debates on demand management), and a specialist on the subject from the University of Western Cape.…”

Reflecting on neoliberal natures: An exchange

“…However, like all things neoliberal (or geographical for that matter), we need to take some care not to portray identicality where it does not, and perhaps cannot, exist. For example, there is a vibrant literature on ‘not quite’ neoliberal natures in Latin America (de Freitas et al., 2015) that has explored the natures and policies that were produced by ‘pink tide’ governments, against the grain of austerity, but often with the same bipolar approach to environmental protection and extraction present elsewhere.…”

Ecuador’s experiment in living well: Sumak kawsay, Spinoza and the inadequacy of ideas

“…It is perhaps for this reason that the Ecuadorian state distances itself from the appellation 'post-neoliberal'. To that end, geographers and social scientists have since insisted on a more circumspect reading of novel modes of governance in Latin America as 'not-quite-neoliberal' (see Anthias and Radcliffe, 2015;de Freitas et al, 2015;Ruckert et al, 2016;Zimmerer, 2015). It is a deliberately diffident term; one that acknowledges the need to be analytically circumspect when dealing with notions that imply definitive breaks in time and space.…”