Thursday, February 24, 2011

Neoliberalism as Liberation

http://www.palestine-studies.org/journals.aspx?id=10924&jid=1&href=fulltext

* Neoliberalism as Liberation: The Statehood Program and the Remaking of the Palestinian National Movement. The Palestinian statehood-by-2011 program, framed through neoliberal institution building, redefines and diverts the Palestinian liberation struggle. Focusing on its economic aspects, and in particular the underlying neoliberal thought that goes beyond narrow economic policy applications, this essay argues that the program cannot succeed either as the midwife of independence or as a strategy for Palestinian economic development. Read the article