It offers various responses to the negative impacts of neoliberalism and its growing inability to deal with the upcoming contradictions and crises. The contributors are mainly scholar-activists from different parts of the world, who present perspectives on social, political and/or economic transformations. They deal with shifting terrains of social struggles and compromises, taking place on different scales, in various contexts and by different actors. All postneoliberal approaches have in common that they constitute a rupture with specific aspects of 'neoliberalism'. The contributors explore different aspects of a possible postneoliberalism, focusing on continuities and discontinuities, which vary in depth, complexity and scope, and relate to everyday practices as well as comprehensive concepts.

Contents:

Postneoliberalism : catch-all word or valuable analytical and political concept? - Aims of a beginning debate; Ulrich Brand and Nicola Sekler

Ways out of the crisis of neoliberalism; Michael Brie

Postneoliberalism and its bifurcations; Ana Esther Cecena

Postneoliberalism and post-Fordism - Is there a new period of capitalist mode of production? Alex Demirovic

Postneoliberalism from and as a counter-hegemonic perspective; Nicola Sekler

Postneoliberalism or postcapitalism? The failure of neoliberalism in the financial market crisis; Elmar Altvater

'Neoliberalism' and development policy - Dogma or progress? Kurt Bayer

Environmental crises and the ambiguous postneoliberalising of nature; Ulrich Brand

The crisis of neoliberalism and the impasse of the union movement; Gregory Albo

Women peasants, food security and biodiversity in the crisis of neoliberalism; Christa Wichterich

On recent projects and experiences of the suffi ciency economy: a critique; Chanida Chanyapate and Alec Bamford

Struggles against Wal-Martisation and neoliberal competitiveness in (southern) China - Towards postneoliberalism as an alternative? Ngai-Ling Sum

Postneoliberalism in Latin America; Emir Sader

Notes on postneoliberalism in Argentina; Verónica Gago and Diego Sztulwark

Realistic postneoliberalism - A view from South Africa; Patrick Bond;

Development Dialogue 2009: January, No. 51, Postneoliberalism - A beginning debate; More information:
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