Global Economic Crisis and the Politics of Diversity

1. Introduction: Global Economic Crisis and the Politics of Diversity
Yildiz Atasoy

Part I. Commodification and Environmental Governance

2. Understanding Neoliberalism as Economization: The Case of the Environment
Fikret Adaman, Yahya M. Madra

3. Neoliberalism, Nature, and Changing Modalities of Environmental Governance in Contemporary Turkey
Leila M. Harris, Mine Işlar

Part II. Market Developmentalism and Livelihood Change

4. Tarnished Yet Tenacious: Examining the Track Record and Future of Public-Private Partnership Hospitals in Canada
Heather Whiteside

5. The Industrial Development of Nanotechnology and Its Likely Implications for Labour
Noela Invernizzi

6. Global Economic Crisis and the ‘Spatial Fix’ of China’s World Factory: The Great ‘Long March’ Inland
Jun Zhang

7. Childcare Policy Reform and Women’s Labour Force Participation in China
Xinying Hu

Part III. State Restructuring and Economic Development

8. Brazil: Neoliberal Restructuring or Rejuvenation of the Developmental State?
James M. Cypher

9. Can China’s Growth Lead the World Out of the Global Economic Crisis?
Paul Bowles

10. Crisis, Social Class, and the ‘Fixing’ of Capitalism in Mexico
Hepzibah Muñoz Martinez

Part IV. Alternative Forms of Politics

11. Alternative Policy Groups and Transnational Counter-Hegemonic Struggle
William K. Carroll

12. Conclusion: Rethinking the Politics of Diversity
Yildiz Atasoy

Keywords: Economics, Economic Policy, Political Sociology, Political Economy, International Relations, Globalization, Sociology, general