Neoliberalism and Welfare: Interview with Susanne Soederberg

Our 'special series on neoliberalism' continues with an interview on ‘Neoliberalism and Welfare’ with our guest Susanne Soederberg. Studying subjects such as the political economy of housing and the geopolitics of indebtedness, Soederberg published the monograph Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry: Money, Discipline and the Surplus Population. In her latest work, Urban Displacements: Governing Surplus and Survival in Global Capitalism, Soederberg analyses the housing question through the case studies of Berlin, Vienna and Dublin.

Neoliberalism and the State: Interview with Pınar Bedirhanoğlu

In the first interview of our series, we spoke with Pınar Bedirhanoğlu on "neoliberalism and the state" in a broad intellectual framework ranging from the capitalist state to the modern state form, from the political Islamist transformation of society in Turkey to corruption across the globe, from class relations transformed by financialization to the struggle of labor. We hope that this in-depth discussion will serve to clear up a myriad of confusion about the state-market-society triangle, on which there has been much debating but no consensus has yet been reached.

Neoliberalism and Imperialism: Interview with Intan Suwandi

Our special series on neoliberalism, which we initiated with an interview with Pınar Bedirhanoğlu, titled "Neoliberalism and the State", continues with an interview with Intan Suwandi, where we discussed imperialism. Focusing primarily on the transformation of imperialist relations of exploitation in the neoliberal globalization process, the interview covers many issues ranging from the current forms of global division of labor to the post-Covid-19 world

Special series on Neoliberalism

This interview series will serve to both critique a social reality fraught with contradictions sharpened by the day and rethink the theoretical arsenal indispensable to the construction of an egalitarian society.