Hilarious consequence of neoliberalism example #69420: the hollowning out and eventual inversion of the core-studies-periphery dynamic.
Start with all the huge government, academic, and business institutions dedicated to managing imperialism, which produced a tremendous amount of knowledge and area experts that made the periphery legible to the core. All of that gets defunded, cut, or outsourced due to neoliberalism, which also produces a steady stream of educated people flowing from core to periphery to teach ESL classes. A few decades later your core-studies-periphery institutions are failing right as the core becomes more legible than ever to the people of the periphery.
Hilarious consequence of neoliberalism example #69420: the hollowning out and eventual inversion of the core-studies-periphery dynamic.
Start with all the huge government, academic, and business institutions dedicated to managing imperialism, which produced a tremendous amount of knowledge and area experts that made the periphery legible to the core. All of that gets defunded, cut, or outsourced due to neoliberalism, which also produces a steady stream of educated people flowing from core to periphery to teach ESL classes. A few decades later your core-studies-periphery institutions are failing right as the core becomes more legible than ever to the people of the periphery.