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The triple-sidedness of “I can't breathe”

The COVID-19 pandemic, enslavement, and agro-industrial capitalism

Don Nonini

to terms with Europe's own troubled imperial history of enslavements and challenging its current neo-nationalist or fascist resurgence under declining neoliberal capitalism ( Kalb 2020 ). Future initiatives of both solidarity with Black Lives Matter

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Introduction

Legal regimes under pandemic conditions: A comparative anthropology

Geoffrey Hughes

counterproductive, as citizens crowded the main thoroughfares anxiously waiting for supplies, it is indicative of how quickly a veneer of neoliberal consensus can give way to a diversity of local constructions of state capacity and community organization amidst a

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Editorial Introduction

The Cases of Japan, Australia, and the United States

Harry G. J. Nijhuis and Laurent J.G. van der Maesen

neoliberal politics that prevail in many areas of American society. The argument raised in this contribution also refers to the debate regarding the adverse impacts of reductionist tendencies in the positivist, atomistic human sciences. By reducing problems

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Editorial Introduction

The Cases of Italy and China

Harry G. J. Nijhuis and Laurent J.G. van der Maesen

immense differences between China and India? The posed questions refer to complicated issues: the utilitarian-individualistic pattern of thought; its connection with the concept of liberalism and contemporary neoliberalism; the concept and practices of

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Carolina Ramírez

social revolt of October 2019. This was a process of mobilizations and protests that expressed popular discontent with the unequal access and privatization of social security, education, health, and even water systems—all consequences of the neoliberal

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The Societal Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic Explained via Three Frameworks

Harry G. J. Nijhuis and Laurent J.G. van der Maesen

and unequivocally framed. The neoliberal economist Friedrich Hayek rightly criticized this messy typological tradition of the use of the term “social” ( Piper 1997 ). In the COVID discourse, the same equivocal use of the term “social” appeared, among

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The Case of South Africa

The Societal Impact of COVID-19

Krish Chetty

, combined with a request for the working-class majority to wait patiently for the trickle-down effects of the neoliberal macroeconomic framework, which, according to Alexander, would lead to a social breakdown. Furthermore, the effects of blatant greed and

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The Case of the United Kingdom

Mapping Localism, Resilience, and Civic Activism in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Tony Bradley, Issam Malki, Curtis Ziniel, and Asad Ghalib

by David Featherstone and colleagues (2012) , who contrast two forms of localism: “austerity” and “progressive.” These authors argue that “austerity localism” represents “roll-back neoliberalism,” whereby market rationality is privileged to certain

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Shivi Grover and Leemamol Mathew

socioeconomic landscape toward neoliberalism allowed the IT sector to boom, making India the outsourcing hub for software and hardware work. This allowed multinational IT companies to proliferate as they set up bases in India while catering to clients in the

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Anna Tsetoura

assumption of the neoliberal doctrine ( Westbroek et al. 2020 ). In European countries economic goals tend to supplant other values ( Tsetoura 2015 ). This is now being furthered by the EU's goals pertaining to digital economy in the context of the European