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Can Mainstream Critical Analyses Explain the State Transformation in Turkey?

Theory & Research In many countries today states are intervening in social relations with more authoritarian policies in order to overcome economic, political, and social crises. Neoliberalism and authoritarianism are presented as polar opposites in main-stream liberal criticism. The purpose of this article is to emphasise the limitations of such an interpretation by considering the main arguments of the most prominent mainstream critical analyses of authoritarianism in Turkey

By Melehat Kutun

The First Months of Lula’s Government and Neo-Liberal Stuckness

Theory & Research On 8 January, Brazil and the world were shocked by images of the same Brasilia now filled with supporters of Jair Bolsonaro in a coup attempt. The attack was defeated and the Supreme Federal Court (STF) responded vigorously, but the sensation of a not-so-new era returned: projections of a transformative future gave way to the feeling of imprisonment in a past that permanently restores our historical dilemmas to the present.

Housing crisis in a time of democratic backsliding | CAPS22

Theory & Research By looking into housing status, entitlements, infrastructure and policies, the panel “Housing crisis in a time of democratic backsliding” provided an analysis that helps to explain social contradictions and what kind of political action is possible by people excluded and/or repressed given authoritarian spatial dynamics in a society

By Sabrina Fernandes

Milton Santos: space, technique, and globalization

Theory & Research The relationships between the local and the global in the shaping of space comprise a set of fundamental categories of Milton Almeida dos Santos, one of the greatest Brazilian thinkers in the second half of the twentieth century

COVID as the (Second) Death of Neoliberalism?

In Perspective If COVID-19 emergency measures are aimed more at safeguarding the profits of banks and large corporations than securing wages and welfare programmes, then this crisis is in fact an opportunity to increase wealth inequality.

By Pedro Salgado