Monthly Archives: March 2008

Editorial: The Neoliberalization of Knowledge

Richard Peet Clark University    In the past, the means of publication of academic journal articles were controlled by academic and professional institutions. But over the last twenty years, control over the dissemination of scientific knowledge has increasingly been privatized.
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  • Volume 1, Number 1 (2008)

The Biopolitics of Baghdad: Counterinsurgency and the Counter-City

Derek Gregory University of British Columbia at Vancouver   Soon  after  the  invasion  of  Iraq  in  2003,  the US  military  began  to  explore  culture-centric warfare as a means of finding the terms for both occupation and counterinsurgency.  The power of
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  • Volume 1, Number 1 (2008)

Imperialism, Resources and Food Security, with reference to the Indian Experience

Utsa Patnaik Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi   This paper analyzes the reasons for declining incomes and nutritional standards of agriculture-dependent populations of developing countries under recent neoliberal economic reforms by taking up the case of India. Located mainly in
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  • Volume 1, Number 1 (2008)