World-Culture and the Neoliberal World-System: An Introduction

Deckard, Sharae; Shapiro, Stephen

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Section: Neo-liberalism Theorymentioning

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“…The theory of neoliberalism has gained momentum in shaping the world, which has led some circles to claim that we live in the age of neoliberalism (Deckard, 2019). According to Deckard (2019), neoliberalism is a paradigm predicated on the hope that the application of reason and universal ethics to International Relations can lead to a more orderly, just and cooperative world, and that international anarchy and war can be policed by institutional reforms that empower international organisations and laws. The basis of the theory rests on the assumption that democratic governance, liberal commercial enterprise, international law and organisation, collective security and ethically inspired statecraft can collectively improve life on planet earth that is if all things are equal.…”

Section: Neo-liberalism Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Miscarriage of Justice in Legal System

Achile¹

2023

IJLP

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Purpose: The aim of the study is to examine the miscarriage of justice in the Legal system Methodology: This study adopted a desktop methodology. This study used secondary data from which include review of existing literature from already published studies and reports that was easily accessed through online journals and libraries. Findings: The study reveals that countries have many numerous legal and institutional framework governing justice, nevertheless the law has failed to promote justice due to poor and shallow investigative process, corruption, incompetent forensic science and witness misidentification. The study also shows that there are innocent people who are serving sentences or have been pushed for crime they did not commit and the factually guilty walking free Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: The study was anchored on theory of justice and neo-liberalism theory. The study recommends that there is need to develop a sophisticated and insightful working framework of criminology of wrongful prosecution. The study recommends that researchers should continue to identify the weaknesses in the police investigative and interview process and to propose reform.

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Section: Neo-liberalism Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Neo-liberalism Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Miscarriage of Justice in Legal System

Achile¹

2023

IJLP

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“…[…] Readers hunger for large stories that … offer them some sort of large-scale vision' (Palumbo-Liu et al, 2011: 9). This issue takes its cue from those materialist scholars who draw on world-systems theory to argue that world-culture is best conceptualised with regard to the capitalist world-system, and, consequently, that the concept of combined and uneven development provides fruitful avenues through which to compare the aesthetic properties of seemingly diverse cultural forms (WReC, 2015;Macdonald, 2017;Shapiro and Barnard, 2017;Deckard and Shapiro, 2019;Lawrence, 2020;Mukherjee, 2020;Niblett, 2020;Poyner, 2020;Deckard, 2021;Lazarus, 2022;Oloff, 2023;Deckard et al, 2024).…”

Section: Social Reproduction and World-culturementioning

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Social Reproduction Feminism and World-Culture: Introduction

Deckard,

Houlden

2023

Feminist Theory

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Over twenty years ago, Amrita Basu, Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan and Liisa Malkki argued that 'capitalism depended on sexism in order to be global ' (2001: 943). This special issue revisits and updates that claim by combining the critical lenses of social reproduction feminism, world-systems and world-ecology. As Basu et al. rightly observed, '[p]utting gender at the very center of considerations of globalization enables us to understand globalization as a set of very uneven processes that are based upon older hegemonic formations as well as new subjects and practices ' (2001: 943). In deploying a reinvigorated social reproduction feminismwhich attests to the importance of the daily work of creating and supporting the emotional and physical needs of life outside of that which capital is willing to pay forwe interrogate both hegemonic and newer, gendered labour practices at the heart of the contemporary moment. Our contributors' analyses of selected world-cultural production reflect how the battle for bodily autonomy, reproductive rights, equality of remuneration and recognition of 'women's work' as work rages on, in illustration of the global intensification of what Silvia Federici (2017) has called 'a true war against women'. 1Recent years have been characterised by the enduring sexual division of labour and caring work, increasingly gendered labour precarity, ongoing workplace limitations for women, endemic rape culture, the escalation of the battle for reproductive rights, entrenched racialised distinction between women's productive and reproductive labours and the continuing stigmatisation of trans lives. Yet the international war on women is not the only long-term crisis rapidly reaching critical mass. Ecological catastrophe and the climate violence wrought by capitalism feed into, and combine with,

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“…Neoliberalism is here defined from a world-systemic and world-ecological perspective, as ‘based less on formal characteristics and more as a dynamic phenomenon that registers the changing global composition of class relations governing the exploitation of peoples and the appropriation of natural resources’ (Deckard and Shapiro, 2019: 25). In the post-colonial context, this means attending to how the period from the 1980s onwards is characterised by the effort to, in Jameson's terms, ‘“proletarianize all those unbound social forces which gave the 60s their energy, by an extension of the class struggle, into the furthest reaches of the globe as well as the most minute configurations of local institutions”’ (cited in Deckard and Shapiro, 2019: 4). This neoliberal ‘proletarianisation’ includes the withdrawal of the state from basic provisions, the reemphasis on competitive market forces, the commodification of nature and the disciplining of radical social energies, with tremendous consequences for the labour of social reproduction.…”

Section: Neoliberalism and Contemporary Witchcraft Accusations In Yab...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There, capitalist narratives of sudden and miraculous wealth creation metamorphose in a post-revolutionary and neoliberal society stricken by ongoing and severe racial and class inequalities, leading to attacks on elderly ‘wealth gate keepers’ blamed for the lack of economic opportunities for youth (Comaroff and Comaroff, 1999: 287). Neoliberalism is here defined from a world-systemic and world-ecological perspective, as ‘based less on formal characteristics and more as a dynamic phenomenon that registers the changing global composition of class relations governing the exploitation of peoples and the appropriation of natural resources’ (Deckard and Shapiro, 2019: 25). In the post-colonial context, this means attending to how the period from the 1980s onwards is characterised by the effort to, in Jameson's terms, ‘“proletarianize all those unbound social forces which gave the 60s their energy, by an extension of the class struggle, into the furthest reaches of the globe as well as the most minute configurations of local institutions”’ (cited in Deckard and Shapiro, 2019: 4).…”

Section: Neoliberalism and Contemporary Witchcraft Accusations In Yab...mentioning

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Unruly magic: Global resource extraction, witchcraft and resistance in Yaba Badoe's The Witches of Gambaga (2011) and Wolf Light (2019)

De Loughry

2023

Feminist Theory

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Following Giovanna Di Chiro's argument for a ‘coalitional’ approach to social reproduction as environmental issue, this article examines representations of magic and witchcraft in Yaba Badoe's young adult novel Wolf Light as registering the impact of neoliberal ‘extractivist heteropatriarchal capitalism’. Accusations of witchcraft were, and still are, associated with grabs for resources, wealth and class positions occupied by women. To this we could add the notion of the environment as a further realm under threat by increasingly toxic strategies of extraction and disposal. This article extends these conceptual frameworks to consider how Yaba Badoe's speculative text, set in Ghana, Cornwall and Mongolia, depicts feminised magic and transformative supernatural powers as ways of combatting global extractivism. Significantly, ecological destruction has yet to be adequately theorised in relation to social reproduction theory. So too its cultural registration in fictions from peripheral areas long associated with extraction. Through focusing on Wolf Light, this article will theorise how the book's formal mode, alongside its figuration of witches as eco-utopian earth defenders and transformative shape-shifters, offers forms of cultural resistance. Critically, the novel builds consciously on global histories of women's oppression – including the resurgence of witchcraft accusations in Ghana, as discussed in Badoe's research for her film The Witches of Gambaga, and early modern British witch hunts. These narratives are reinvested with a focus on local struggle and resistance as imagined through the text's three main protagonists, whose shape-shifting abilities and trans-border magical connections provide a way of protesting neoliberalism's compound crises of reproduction.

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World-Culture and the Neoliberal World-System: An Introduction

Cited by 14 publications

References 26 publications

Miscarriage of Justice in Legal System

Miscarriage of Justice in Legal System

Social Reproduction Feminism and World-Culture: Introduction

Unruly magic: Global resource extraction, witchcraft and resistance in Yaba Badoe's The Witches of Gambaga (2011) and Wolf Light (2019)

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