In a cynical ploy for jobs and revenue‚ Gary‚ Indiana’s mayor‚ Democrat Karen Freeman-Wilson‚ is currently pushing a proposal that would allow the multinational corporation and America’s second largest private jailer GEO Group to build an immigrant detention facility in the deindustrialized Rust Belt city‚ a city already ravaged by neoliberal economics and corporate globalization. The facility‚ according to GEO Group and Freeman-Wilson‚ will house 800 prisoners‚ possibly employ 2o0 workers‚ cost
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The emergence of Occupy Movement plays a huge role in defining the protest and how it will progress. Piven and Claus believe that occupy movement happen because individuals in society must have a change. The emergence of a protest movement entails a transformation both of consciousness and of behavior .People realize that they are unhappy with they way that our government is lead which lead them to rebel. One other theory that ties into a change in conscious is the Arab Spring.The “Arab Spring”
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Introduction Over the past century‚ most Latin American governments have heavily relied on state intervention in the markets to fuel economic growth and ‘development.’ Political and economic instability in the region throughout the 20th century set the stage for people to put their faith in a powerful state that promised stability and security. Many Latin American countries would put their faith in the Import-Substitution Industrialization (ISI) economic model‚ which was an “inward-oriented”
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Department of Politics Course Descriptions 201 3 - 1 4 Autumn term courses PO71016A Art & Politics 1: Theory History Event Numbers of this course are limited and are on a first come first served basis . Students wishing to take this course not enrolled on the MA Art and Politics must contact the course co - ordinator (b.buckley@gold.ac.uk) for permission to join. Lecturer: Dr Bernadette Buckley 30 CATS Autumn Monday 13.00 - 17.00 This is a core module for MAAP‚ meaning that
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health‚ education and improvement of public services. Another benefit is the social inclusion through participatory stimuli‚ as well as increased productivity and economic stability (Gragnolati‚ Jorgense & Rocha‚ 2011). With the definition of neoliberalism that primary education becomes an education for all‚ which would ensure the sustainability of the debtor countries. However‚ at this time the design changed‚ because the concept of globalization in which they believe in equality between the countries
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Non-Tariff Barriers to Trade‚ Ithaca‚ NY‚ 1990. Grieco‚ Joseph M.‚ Understanding the Problem of International Cooperation: The Limits of Neoliberal Institutionalism and the Future of Realist Theory‚ in: Baldwin‚ David A. (ed.)‚ Neorealism and Neoliberalism: The Contemporary Debate‚ New York 1993‚ 339–62. 3 Kant‚ Immanuel‚ Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch‚ in: Kant‚ Political Writings‚ 2nd edition‚ trans by Nisbet‚ H.B. ed. by Reiss‚ Hans‚ Cambridge 1991‚ 93–130 (original title: Zum ewigen
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The 1987 classic is set in a futuristic‚ crime-ridden Detroit. The film centres on a Detroit police officer‚ Alex Murphy‚ who is transformed into a crime-fighting cyborg known as RoboCop. RoboCop is a creation of the Omni Consumer Product (OCP)‚ the corporation who has OCP wishes to create a utopian “Delta City”‚ a shining beacon of consumerism they hope to erect from the crime-ridden ruins of Detroit. Officer Alex Murphy‚ who has been recently relocated to Detroit’s most dangerous area‚ is brutally
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The term ’globalisation’ has been subjected to a variety of interpretations. Though it may simply mean global interconnectedness‚ it includes a number of interlinked and complex economic‚ technological‚ cultural‚ environmental and political processes. As a student of Law in A‘levels the idea of how the future will be linked to technology and what pro’s and con’s does it hold for us caught my attention. In the beginning‚ it was my notion that the advancement in the technology is a result of globalisation
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POLITICAL ISLAM IN THE ERA OF NEOLIBERALISM The main topics The post-Islamist Turn (Asef Bayat) The relationship between the urban dispossessed and radical Islam (Asef Bayat) Understanding of political Islam from a historical materialist perspective (the debate between Amin and Tariq Amin-Khan) “What is post-Islamsim”: First of all‚ it should be clarified at the very beginning that the categories “Islamism” and “post-Islamism” serve primarily as theoretical constructs to signify change‚ difference
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Racism never stands still. It changes shape‚ size‚ contours‚ purpose‚ function‚ with changes in the economy‚ the social structure‚ the system and‚ above all‚ the challenges‚ the resistances‚ to that system. The racism we are faced with today is not the racism we faced 40‚ 50 years ago‚ when we first came here. Then‚ post-war Britain was in dire need of our labour – and‚ to facilitate that‚ the Nationality Act of 1948 made us all British citizens. The Commonwealth Immigrants Act of 1962 was the
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