Tag Archives: Israel

Futures and ethnographies of ‪neoliberalism‬

Posted on October 8, 2014 by Oleg Komlik

The special issue of Cultural Anthropology “Futures of ‪Neoliberalism‬” (open access) offers theoretically-astute and fine-grained ethnographic analyses of the effects of profound changes across the Globe in various fields: workers’ wageless and disrupted life in ‪‎Brazil‬, governance of young right-extremists in … Continue reading →

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The Global Political Economy of Israel

Posted on June 5, 2011 by Oleg Komlik

Over the past century, Israel has been transformed from an agricultural country, to a welfare-warfare state, to a globally integrated “market economy” characterised by great income disparities. What lies behind this transformation? Why the shift in emphasis from “war profits” … Continue reading →