TY - JOUR AU - Heeg, Susanne PY - 2019/06/25 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Neoliberalism and Neoliberalization: Helpful Devices for the Analysis of Urban Development in the Middle East and North Africa JF - Middle East - Topics & Arguments JA - meta VL - 12 IS - 1 SE - DO - 10.17192/meta.2019.12.7834 UR - https://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/ep/0003/article/view/7834 SP - 18-26 AB - <div>Neoliberalism is a widely used in social&nbsp;science to refer to processes such as&nbsp;privatization, deregulation, commodification, and austerity. Quite often in this&nbsp;interpretative framework, neoliberalism&nbsp;is also associated with the dismantling of&nbsp;the welfare state, the opening up of free&nbsp;trade and investment, and an increased&nbsp;emphasis on the private sector. In the academic discussion, various authors criticize&nbsp;the use of the term because it lacks analytical clarity and/or is used as a political&nbsp;slogan to denounce social and economic&nbsp;change. The aim of the article is neither to&nbsp;question the analytical dimension nor to&nbsp;develop an irrefutable definition, but to&nbsp;provide insight into the strength of a&nbsp;place- and time-sensitive discussion of&nbsp;neoliberalism.</div> ER -