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Dear colleagues,
Please find below a call for paper abstracts for a working group on
Authoritarian Neoliberalism at the Development Days Conference
"Authoritarianism and Development", 16-17 February 2017, Helsinki
(Deadline: 15 December 2016)
More information on the Conference can be found here:
http://www.kehitystutkimus.fi/conference/
The complete list of working groups/panels can be found here:
http://www.kehitystutkimus.fi/conference/working-groups
WG 7: Authoritarian Neoliberalism: Embedding Capitalist Development in
Non-Democratic Regimes
Chair: Bonn Juego, University of Jyväskylä ([log in to unmask])
Democratization has long been the defining theme of development
research and policy. Particularly since the post-Cold War period,
neoliberalism has been promoted as the dominant development paradigm
for capitalist modernization of what used to be known as the Third
World. Through policies on state restructuring and market reforms,
proponents of neoliberalism link—discursively, at least—the objective
of socio-economic development with the normative for political
democratization.
However, the political institutions of authoritarianism have endured
in developing countries and emerging economies through the height of
neoliberal globalization in the 1980s–1990s, the rise of China at the
turn of the 21st century and the protracted Atlantic economic crises
in recent years. Arguably, neoliberal globalization’s uneven and
combined development processes have not made it impossible for the
capitalist mode of production to be adapted to domestic authoritarian
power structures.
This working group will examine how and why both neoliberalism and
authoritarianism are—or have proved to be—conducive to each other. It
will empirically and theoretically reflect upon the specificities of
an emergent political-economic regime which can be referred to as
“authoritarian neoliberalism” whereby capitalist development processes
are embedded in authoritarian politics. Empirically, it will present
actual cases that show how entrenched local elite interests
represented by authoritarian states take advantage of the accumulation
opportunities opened up by market-oriented development policies of
privatization and liberalization.
Theoretically, it will review the ideological antecedents of the
concept of authoritarian neoliberalism from the history of political
and economic thought which have attempted to blend together the
mutually reinforcing tendencies of capitalism and authoritarianism. By
doing so, it will also highlight the structural contradictions and
social contestations from which change may occur in these emerging
varieties of authoritarian neoliberalism in the context of
contemporary crises in the global political economy of development.
--
Ilona Steiler
PhD Candidate
Development Studies
Department of Political and Economic Studies
P.O.Box 18 (Unioninkatu 35)
00014 University of Helsinki
FINLAND
ilona.steiler[at]helsinki.fi
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