Citation

Springer S. Geoforum 2008; 39(4): 1520-1525.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.geoforum.2008.01.003

PMID

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Abstract

This paper steps into recent debates concerning the (f)utility of neoliberalism as an 'actually existing' concept by reminding the reader that without a Marxian political economy approach, one that specifically includes neoliberalisation as part of its theoretical edifice, we run the risk of obfuscating the reality of capitalism's festering poverty, rising inequality, and ongoing geographies of violence as something unknowable and 'out there'. By failing to acknowledge such nonillusory effects of neoliberalisation and refusing the explanatory power neoliberalism holds in relating similar constellations of experiences across space as a potential basis for emancipation, we precipitously ensure the prospect of a violent future.