Neoliberalism’s Agnosticism: Domestic and Immigration Policies and the Model Family in Canada and the United States

Abstract

This collection brings together a diverse range of analyses to interrogate policy changes and to grapple with the on-going transformations of neoliberalism in both North America and various Latin American states.; The contradictions and transformations of neoliberalism in Latin America : from structural adjustment to "empowering the poor" / Marcus Taylor -- Post-neoliberalism and the new left in the Americas : the pathways of economic and trade policies / Pablo Heidrich and Diana Tussie -- Struggling between autonomy and institutional transformations : social movements in Latin America and the move toward post-neoliberalism / Ulrich Brand and Nicola Sekler -- Post-neoliberalism and the emergence of human rights politics in international finance / Elizabeth Friesen -- Hugo Chávez and the search for post-neoliberal policy alternatives in Venezuela / Judy Meltzer -- From naked barbarism to barbarism with benefits : neoliberal capitalism, natural gas policy, and the Evo Morales government in Bolivia / Jeffery R. Webber -- Is there a post-neoliberal policy toward foreign direct investment in Argentina and Chile? / Paul Alexander Haslam -- The World Bank and the poverty reduction strategy of Nicaragua : toward a post-neoliberal world development order? / Arne Ruckert -- The "re-branding" of neoliberalism : competing hegemonies and systemic dilemmas impacting educational development in heavily indebted Latin American states / Adam Davidson-Harden -- Neoliberalism and the micropolitics of domination in the United States / Mary Hawkesworth -- Poverty policy and politics in Canada and Mexico : "inclusive" liberalism? / Rianne Mahon and Laura Macdonald -- The shaping of motherhood through social investment in children : examples from Canada and Mexico / Lucy Luccisano and Glenda Wall -- Neoliberalism's agnosticism : domestic and immigration policies and the model family in Canada and the United States / Lois Harder -- Colombia's neoliberal regime of governance : securitization by dispossession / Cristina Rojas -- Afterword : Post-neoliberal politics and pathways / Laura Macdonald and Arne Ruckert.