Violent Neoliberalism: Development, Discourse, and Dispossession in Cambodia [Hardcover]

Violent Neoliberalism explores the complex unfolding relationship between neoliberalism and violence. Employing a series of theoretical dialogues on development, discourse and dispossession Cambodia, this study sheds significant empirical light on the vicious implications of free market ideology and practice.PART I: DEVELOPMENT 1. Violent Politics: Authority, Terror, and the New Devaraja 2. Violent Kleptocracy: The Articulations of Neoliberalism and Patronage PART II: DISCOURSE 3. Violent Orientalism: Imagining the "Savage Other" 4. Violent Symbolism: Good Governance and the Making of Neoliberal Subjects PART III: DISPOSSESSION 5. Violent Accumulation: The Trilateral of Logics and The Creation of Property 6. Violent Evictions: Oral Possession and Legal Transgression 7. Memento Mori: The Mortality of Neoliberalism

Grounding his book on previously published scholarly articles and chapters, Springer (geography, Univ. of Victoria, BC) presents a full-throated critique of Neoliberalism [which] has become the dominant political economic arrangement in our world today. & The volume is well written and contains a useful bibliography. Of interest principally to scholars and graduate students whose interests are in issues of ideology and social development and their interrelationship. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and up. (A. Magid, Choice, Vol. 53 (10), June, 2016)

Empirically-grounded, and theoretically-rich, this revolutionary book constitutes the most provocative account of contemporary Cambodia yet written. It is, though, much more, in that Springer provides a radically new way of thinking about the complex intersection of violenceand economic development. Violent Neoliberalism will challenge and transform how scholars must think through political economy. - James Tyner, Professor, Department of Geography, Kent State University, Ohio, USA

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