well resilience is just one concept used in development studies

there are many other such as contestation in its different forms

see attached....much more in that vein if you Google it

what are you actually looking for?

Ronaldo,

I was wondering if it was going to be focused on a particular area. Say, famine, natural disaster (tsunami/earthquake type thing), possibly a health issue like Ebola.

Is there a Marxist approach in contrast to a neoliberal approach? What approaches are common and is there an intention to contrast a few against neoliberalism or just critique the neoliberal approach towards building resilience.

I have no agenda, I am merely interested in how broad or narrow the study was going to be. It is far from my area of expertise so I am not presuming to criticise.

Thank you.

Dominic

I didn’t mean agenda in a negative sense

just what did you want to do

let me think about it

there are many critical takes in neoliberalism

is it environmental issues you are engaging with?

Dominic,

The neoliberal rationality has certainly permeated across the world. Nevertheless, relevant examples of contrasting economic frameworks can be found in Latin America. From the early 2000s, we witnessed the rise of anti-neoliberal ruling governments (what has generally been regarded as the Latin American "Pink Tide"). What united these governments (from Kirchner's Argentina to Lula's Brazil, Ortega's Nicaragua, Zelaya's Honduras, Correa's Ecuador, Mujica's Uruguay, Evo's Bolivia, amongst others, was a vision of economic development for Latin America based on social-democratic principles, a more equitable distribution of wealth and the state as the guarantor of welfare. These governments have preponderantly relied on resource extractivism (mining, oil extraction, etc.) in order to channel these revenues into social welfare and invest them in infrastructure. In this sense, although these governments have been deemed as the epitome of the "Latin American 21st century left", in fact their policies can be best described as Keynesian.

All in all, these framework for economic development in Latin America has challenge not only the neoliberal project but has also brought back to the people the struggle against US imperialism in the region.

Dominic,

Attached is my thesis. It takes a human rights approach to the problem of neoliberalism.