Day 1 Imperialism and the nation-state
Theme I Transformation of politics: Can the nation-state resist?
Institutional dismantlement of the developmental state and prospects for representative democracy
New forms of imperialist supervision through the agenda of human rights and democracy
Military control of the periphery: Unilateral intervention, private armies, lessons from the Iraqi invasion
New (“peaceful”) techniques of “regime change”
Theme II Resistance and alternatives to the neo-liberal agenda
Economic instability of the imperialist system: USA; EU, Asia and the rest.
Two generations of “market-friendly reforms”: Where do we stand now?
National experiences of deviations from and/or resistance to Bretton Woods institutions and at the WTO from nation-states of the South
Moderate unorthodoxy or radical departures from conventional wisdom
Day 2 Disorientation and resistance at the “grass roots”
Theme III What is happening to the class map?
The working class; marginalisation/informalisation of the reserve army of labour
New patterns of urban poverty
Contemporary forms of primitive accumulation
Destruction of agrarian relations of production: Is there a future for the peasant?
Theme IV New ontologies of adaptation and resistance
Survival under and everyday resistance to the structural violence and insecurity of ‘the market’
Organised resistance to neoliberalism: Trade unions, peasant movements, issue-based opposition, womens’ struggles
Ideological upheavals: Religion as a refuge of the poor? A means of domination? An act of resistance by popular classes?
Islamic fundamentalism: Where does it stand?
Day 3 Round table on prospects for counter-hegemonic, un-systemic, “socialist”
alternatives
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