Political power and practices of resistance

MARIO PECHENY; JANET JAKOBSEN; ANA AMUCHÁSTEGUI; MAJA HORN

Paradoxes of Neoliberalism. Sex, Gender and Possibilites for Justice

Taylor & Francis - Routledge

Año: 2022; p. 159 - 188

The goal of this volume has been to develop a conversation amongst scholars living and working in different areas of the world (Argentina, Denmark, the Dominican Republic, Hong Kong, India, Mexico, Nigeria, South Korea, the United States, and the US Virgin Islands) about their understandings of neoliberalism, the imbrication of gender and sex in neoliberal political economies, and current possibilities for achieving justice.Through our conversations across sites, we have come to understand neoliberalism as a concatenation of differential, often productively incoherent, projects ? some political, some economic. Some places are the direct subject of structural adjustment policies imposed by transnational institutions, some have moved beyond these direct policies toward new social and political formations, and some were never subject to structural adjustment directly but have nonetheless experienced a range of neoliberal effects, such as a proliferation of non-governmental and semi-governmental organizations. Interactions among gender, sexuality, economics, and politics also vary across this range of neoliberal policies, practices, and effects. Sometimes, gender and sexuality are the legitimating site for policies that bundle together economics and changes to the structure of the state, like those pertaining to ?sex trafficking? (Chapter 4). In other instances, sexual politics are an implicit dimension of broader policies on issues ranging from migration (Chapter 5) to the growth of financial services accompanied by a concomitant expansion of inequality (Chapter 3).