Polarizing Development

Lucia Pradella works at the University of Venice, Ca' Foscari, and is a Research Associate in the SOAS Department of Development Studies. She is author of Polarizing Development: Alternatives to Neoliberalism and the Crisis (Pluto, 2014), Globalisation and the Critique of Political Economy (2014) and L'Attualità del 'Capitale' (2010).Thomas Marois is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London. He is the author of Polarizing Development: Alternatives to Neoliberalism and the Crisis (Pluto, 2014) and States, Banks and Crisis: Emerging Finance Capitalism in Mexico and Turkey (2012).

• Foreword 1. Polarising Development – Introducing Alternatives to Neoliberalism and the CrisisPart I: Alternative Themes 2. Beyond Impoverishment: Western Europe in the World Economy - Lucia Pradella3. Banking on Alternatives to Neoliberal Development - Thomas Marois 4. The Political Economy of Development: Statism or Marxism? - Benjamin Selwyn5. The Globalisation of Production and the Struggle for Workers’ Unity: Lessons from Bangladesh - John Smith6. The ‘Rise of the South’ - Alfredo Saad-Filho7. Hegemony in Question: U.S. Primacy, Multi-Polarity and Global Resistance - Jerome Klassen8. Neoliberalism, Crisis and International Migration - Pietro Basso9. Neoliberalism, Social Reproduction and Women’s Resistance: Lessons from Cambodia and Venezuela - Sarah Miraglia and Susan Spronk 10. Exploding in the Air: Beyond the Carbon Trail of Neoliberal Globalisation - Andreas Malm11. Defend, Militate and Alternate: Public Options in a Privatised World - David A. McDonald 12. Utopian Socialism and Marx’s Capital: Envisioning Alternatives - Hugo RadicePart II: Alternative Cases 13. Beyond Neoliberalism and New Developmentalism in Latin America: Towards an Anti-Capitalist Agenda - Abelardo Mariña-Flores14. Crisis and Class, Advance and Retreat: The Political Economy of the New Latin American Left - Jeffery R. Webber15. Taking Control: Decommodification and Peasant Alternatives to Neoliberalism in Mexico and Brazil - Leandro Vergara-Camus16. The Rise of East Asia: A Slippery Floor for the Left - Dae-oup Chang17. Labour as an Agent of Change: The Case of China - Tim Pringle18. Alternatives to Neoliberalism in India - Rohini Hensman19. Musical Chairs on the Sidelines: The Challenges of Social Transformation in Neocolonial Africa - Baba Aye 20. Challenging Neoliberalism in the Arab World - Adam Hanieh21. Socialist Feminist Alternatives to Neoliberalism in Turkey - Demet Ozmen Y lmaz22. Uneven Development and Political Resistance against EU Austerity Politics - Angela Wigger and Laura Horn 23. Crisis, Austerity and Resistance in the United States - David McNallyList of Contributors Index

'Not only rejects neoliberalism and its alleged alternative, new developmentalism, on theoretical grounds; it also provides real solutions as to how neoliberal capitalism should be challenged'