New Left Review 99, May-June 2016 - Softcover
Julia Buxton: Venezuela After Chávez As Maduro clings on to the presidency, a leading analyst discusses the crumbling of Chavista hegemony and a revival of the right amid collapsing oil revenues, a malfunctioning economy, street protests, and the long-term corruption. Göran Therborn: An Age of Progress? Contradictions of social evolution: climate change, stagnant incomes and social exclusion entwined with rising per capita GDP and lengthening life-spans, challenges to racism and sexism, and a capacity for the humans to take control of its destiny. Joachim Becker: Europe's Other Periphery The fate of the East Euro economies in the transition from COMECON to EU. Manali Desai: Gendered Violence and India's Body Politic Falling demand for female labour and rising dowry thresholds as factors behind mounting attacks on women; gang-rape as an instrument of caste-oppression; a culture of impunity in conflict zones; son-preference, girl-aversion and the missing. Manali Desai surveys the modalities of violence against women since Independence. Rodrigo Ochigame, James Holston: Filtering Dissent Hailed as organizational tools of the oppressed, social media have also emerged as powerful surveillance apparatuses, but could existing power structures be reinforced even by the very algorithms they use to order data? Brazil's Guarani and Kaiowá peoples. Sven Lütticken: The Coming Exception The artwork has long been understood as a political-economic anomaly, while art practice is sometimes seen as a stand-in for liberated human activity. Ece Temelkuran: Good Enough for the Middle East? Ece Temelkuran on Cihan Tuğal, The Fall of the Turkish Model. Unsparing dissection of AKP-Erdoğan rule. Fictions of Capital Nicholas Dames on Leigh Claire La Berge, Scandals and Abstractions. Periodizing study of financial fiction from Wall Street to American Psycho.
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- PublisherNew Left Review
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 13 9770028606034
- BindingPaperback
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