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Neoliberalisation of Local Communities: A Content Analysis of Selected Texts from Antipode – A Radical Journal of Geography, 2010-2013

The paper represents a study of papers published in Antipode – A Radical Journal of Geography, from 2010 to 2013, in which, as to the author’s assessments, a highly critical stance towards contemporary neoliberalism exists. Hence Antipode publishes “a radical analysis of geographical issues and its intent is to engender the development of a new and better society”, a critical stance towards neoliberalism in the papers published is of course expected. However, it is the intent of this paper what kind of critical stance was present in the texts published in Antipode in the period of four years. A basic content analysis was used, in order to analyse the discourse that was used to describe, characterize and critically judge the contemporary relationship of neoliberalism towards local communities, especially regarding nature and natural resources. The topics followed in the study were privatization of natural resources and natural monopolies, as well as privatization of nature and nature- based activities in local communities. The focus of the analysis was on the words used to describe neoliberalisation of the aforementioned areas of social life and the context in which those words were used, through the analysis of full citations.

neoliberalisation ; neoliberalism ; Antipode ; local communities ; public space ; nature.

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