Research question: What is the role that neoliberalism has played in the high levels of human trafficking within the Southeast Asian country of Thailand and how has this country been able to create policies that will sucessfully control the contiual rise of this type of transnational crime? Theoretical & Conceptual Framework: This dissertation will focus on the theory of neoliberalism, in order to critically examine the causes of human trafficking. This is first done on a universial level and then
As a result of a long period of prosperity in the United States, the crisis in the financial market has created an old spectre, the spectre of capitalist crisis. The Spectre at the Feast, published in 2009 by Andrew Gamble is a writing on the 2008 financial crisis and its consequences. Gamble is a British academic author and professor of politics at the University of Cambridge who regards himself as a political economist, and has a historical, institutionalist and comparative approach in his writings
Neoliberalism conceptualized within different frameworks and different approaches because of its incomplete, uneven and contradictory presence. Some scholars studied it as a political economy process, while some see as a bunch of policies and reform programs. Some assert as a way of state formation and some insist on the governmentality aspect of the neoliberalism. Harvey’s “A brief history of neoliberalism” and Hardt and Negri’s “Empire” set the theoretical framework of the political economy, namely
Nancy Fraser’s Feminism, Capitalism and the Cunning of History provides a comprehensive account of second-wave feminism amid three distinct phases of shifting social and political structures emerging from a post-war setting, proceeding to neo-liberalist organization and presently shifting to a state characterised by a capitalist crisis. By organizing her article into three sections, Fraser systematically deconstructs the phases of state organization and how they interact with ideals of second-wave
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practice,” etc.). In the meantime, as pointed out by Arendt, the ideals of democracy are contradicted by the material needs of capital accumulation; capitalism pulls liberalism through its elites toward totalitarian practices (Arendt 1994, p. 282). In managing the gap between the ideals of democracy and the tendency toward authoritarian liberalism, police adapt practices that respond to this structural dilemma (Davenport 1995). Whilst struggling to bridge the widening gulf between social and economic winners