Work or Alienation? A Conceptual Understanding of Academic Labour Process in Neo-liberal University System

Capital and Labour Contestation in India in the Neo-liberal Era

This paper applies a number of social theories to understand contestation between labor and capital in India in the neo-liberal era. Examining the role of the state in redefining what is social and anti-social in the context of activism on the part of labor, this paper analyses the relationship between state and society in facilitating the embedding of a neoliberal regime in India on the one ha...

Human Rights in the Neo-liberal Imagination

f/sla from learner perspectives: a social activity or a cognitive process

in the past couple of decades sociocultural theory of sla and its implications in efl contexts have attracted attentions of research circles worldwide and aroused some controversies. firth and wagner (1997) have questioned the principles of the cognitive view which gives importance to mental constructs in favor of sociocultural view which highlights social and contextual constructs. but if soci...

The Terms of the Neo-Liberal Consensus

And so the most spectacular crash of the world's most neo-liberal government ushered in the neo-liberal consensus. From now on both major contending parties in the British state accept the essential neo-liberal tenets: markets should rule under the guidance of entrepreneurs, with minimal intervention from government; taxes and public spending, and in particular the redistributive effect of dire...

Latin America's Exclusionary Rural Development in a Neo-liberal World