Abstract
This article discusses two different phases of neoliberalism as city government practice in Brazil: the first one as progressive neoliberalism and the second as authoritarian, austere, and militarized management of social collapse. In the first part of the text, I use the works of Christian Laval and Pierre Dardot (2009 [2013] and 2016) and Dardot et. al (2021) to inscribe the proposed debate in the transition between two expressions of neoliberalism, initially as world reason or political rationality and later as war strategy. In the second part, such phases will be observed through recent transformations in city government practices, using some examples related to the latest housing and land regularization programs.
neoliberalism; social movements; political philosophy
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Prepared by the authors. 2018. Made with QGIS 2.18.9.Source: roads and hydrography (Open street maps, 2018); location of municipalities (Malha Municipal IBGE, 2018); data on projects from Minha Casa Minha Vida for Residential Leasing Fund, FAR-A (Caixa Econômica Federal, 2018) using the Electronic Citizen Information System (Portal e-Sic, 2018).
Prepared by the authors. 2018. Made with QGIS 2.18.9.Source: roads and hydrography (Open street maps, 2018); location of municipalities (Malha Municipal IBGE, 2018); data on projects from Minha Casa Minha Vida for Residential Leasing Fund, FAR-A (Caixa Econômica Federal, 2018) using the Electronic Citizen Information System (Portal e-Sic, 2018).
Prepared by the authors. 2018. Made with QGIS 2.18.9.Source: roads and hydrography (Open street maps, 2018); location of municipalities (Malha Municipal IBGE, 2018); data on projects from Minha Casa Minha Vida for Residential Leasing Fund, FAR-A (Caixa Econômica Federal, 2018) using the Electronic Citizen Information System (Portal e-Sic, 2018).
Prepared by the authors. 2018. Made with QGIS 2.18.9.Source: roads and hydrography (Open street maps, 2018); location of municipalities (Malha Municipal IBGE, 2018); data on projects from Minha Casa Minha Vida for Residential Leasing Fund, FAR-A (Caixa Econômica Federal, 2018) using the Electronic Citizen Information System (Portal e-Sic, 2018).
Prepared by the authors. 2018. Made with QGIS 2.18.9.Source: roads and hydrography (Open street maps, 2018); location of municipalities (Malha Municipal IBGE, 2018); data on projects from Minha Casa Minha Vida for Residential Leasing Fund, FAR-A (Caixa Econômica Federal, 2018) using the Electronic Citizen Information System (Portal e-Sic, 2018).