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times Soundings 39 explores some of the effects of neoliberal hegemony – internationally, in society, and in our heads – while also pointing to areas of resistance. Articles on China, Pakistan, Africa, the EU and BP engage with the global power of multinational companies and their supporting institutions. A second group of features looks at the deeply embedded nature of the structures of neoliberalism – in corporate responsibility rhetoric, in the sucking in of social networking sites into the corporate world, and in the steady movement towards privatisation in broadcasting. A third section looks at the ‘broken society’ debate, with discussion on the Cameron Tories, Britain’s melancholia, binge drinking and violence against women.
Editorial
China: changing
the rules of the game
Lin Chun
Pakistan: an uncertain
ally
Shaun Gregory
Africa and globalisation
Ray Bush
A dead end for the EU?
John Grahl
Exit
strategy: BP and the fuelling of Heathrow
James Marriott
Are we
all neo-liberals now? 'Responsibility' and corporations
Grahame
Thompson
Mining the wealth of online communities
Mark
Andrejevic
Ofcom, regulation and reform
Jonathan Hardy
Fraternity without equality, and
other Conservative ideals
Jonathan Rutherford
Melancholic
nation
Paul Hoggett
The Great British Binge Drinking Debate
Guy Redden
Paradoxical progress: responding to sexual violence
Liz Kelly
Poems
Maitreyabandhu, Nicki Hastie, András Gerevich,
Chris Beckett, Maria Jastrzebska
Reviews
Suzanne Moore, Marian Barnes
Paths through utopias John Jordan and Isa Fremeaux
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