PCANL Flashcards
Bogaert
Arab Spring not just rejection of authoritarianism but NL. NL is idiosyncratic. Based on accumulation by dispossession.
Restoration of class in the global south.
Arab Spring - recovery programmes represent new forms of patronage, accumulation and exploitation.
Salamandra
Old Damascus, New Damascus
Ghannam
Cairo - Dispossession of 5000 families from Bulaq, Cairo to al-Hamra
Jones
Water is the key point of contest in the region. Oil funds used by Saudi Arabia to fund desalinisation.
Saudi’s distributed wealth to enjoy complete power - Faustian bargain.
Ong
Looks at the notion of valuable citizens applied in Singapore
Heydemann
Three phases:
1. Washington Consensus - 1980s - state as problem
2. Neoinstitutionalism - 1990 - more open to state, remains central to the economy
3. Re-regulation - full on state intervention; markets as politics
1980s - Morocco - WB forced tariffs from 300% to 0-35% in Structural Adjustment Programme.
Valbjorn and Bank
ME has to be understood in an extra-regional context.
Knudsen
Cedar revolution - broke pax-Syriana. Resulted in politicisation of Hezbollah. Hariri in tomb in Martyr’s square. Solidere -> central bank
Baumann
1964 - Hariri emigrates, becomes rich in Saudi. Death as polarising
Atia
Faith Based Development Organisations - FBDOs - recognised by the WB. Taken over where state developmentalism left off. Pious neoliberalism.
Sadat
President of Egypt following Nasser
Khalidi
Reframing of the Palestinian Question through Neoliberalism.
Olmsted
GDI and GEM - marginal gains for women in neoliberal era - has not solved reproductive question.
Brenner
Neoliberalism opens up new spaces for the state.
laiklik
The principle of secularism enshrined in the operational doctrines of Kemalism.
Evidence the failing the state developmental model in Egypt
BY 1965, the sewage system in Cairo had broken down, and took some three months to repair. Congestion and high density housing dramatically impacted the conditions present within the state.
Evidence the failing the state developmental model in Egypt
BY 1965, the sewage system in Cairo had broken down, and took some three months to repair. Congestion and high density housing dramatically impacted the conditions present within the state.
Volker Shock
US jacked up interest prices causing the debts abroad to rise to crippling levels in the Global South - from 10% to 48% of GDP in the 15 most heavily indebted nations.
Hanieh
BWI institutions driving forward adoption of neoliberalism. $60 million to fund the transitions in Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco in 2011. Still privatisation, deregulation and opening to FDI.
Oil seen as strategic commodity.
Atasoy
Islam’s marriage with neoliberalism - looking at the liberalisation packages undertaken by the AKP party in 2000s which sought a greater role for Islam in the state - violating principles of Kemalism.
Ferguson
Capital does not flow, it jumps from space to space.
Amr Khaled
Da’wa star, 2008. His TV show “Sonaa Alhayat” (Life Makers) morphed into a social association per invitation during one of his episodes, where he said that serving society and working on its development is part of someone’s religion.
Bush
Poverty comes not from the exclusion but inclusion in the neoliberal economy
Amr Khaled
Da’wa star, 2008. His TV show “Sonaa Alhayat” (Life Makers) morphed into a social association per invitation during one of his episodes, where he said that serving society and working on its development is part of someone’s religion.
Citizens of Dubai
Only 10-15% are actually citizens. Flexible citizenship.
Dubai male culture
Commodified, libertine culture -> consumerist landscape. Symbolic capital held in gender, ethnicity.
