Matthew Lau
Biographic Data
| ID | 3681808 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Lau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Lau |
| SIGNATURE | LAU M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Hate and Be Silent
Walter Benjamin and filmmaker Jia Zhangke both use the trope of silence to register a critique of the effects of capitalist development on their respective societies that is fundamentally romantic. For Benjamin and Jia, the strength of the romantic sensibility is its break with more systematic or traditional methods of capitalist critique. Their work is therein more open to the contingencies and possibilities of their historical moments. That sil…
In Faint Praise of the World Bank's Gender Development Policy
1. The Standard Critique of Structural Adjustment Programmes Outside the field of economics, it is customary among social scientists to deride the World Bank for its neoliberalism. The standard argument is that the structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) favoured by the bank in the 1980s and 1990s sought to impose free market conditions on the less developed countries. However, offering aid in exchange for more international trade, foreign invest…
In Faint Praise of the World Bank's Gender Development Policy
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In Faint Praise of the World Bank's Gender Development Policy
1. The Standard Critique of Structural Adjustment Programmes Outside the field of economics, it is customary among social scientists to deride the World Bank for its neoliberalism. The standard argument is that the structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) favoured by the bank in the 1980s and 1990s sought to impose free market conditions on the less developed countries. However, offering aid in exchange for more international trade, foreign invest…
In Faint Praise of the World Bank's Gender Development Policy
Hate and Be Silent
Walter Benjamin and filmmaker Jia Zhangke both use the trope of silence to register a critique of the effects of capitalist development on their respective societies that is fundamentally romantic. For Benjamin and Jia, the strength of the romantic sensibility is its break with more systematic or traditional methods of capitalist critique. Their work is therein more open to the contingencies and possibilities of their historical moments. That sil…
Economics (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Praise (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Commodity (1 work) · Debt (1 work) · Economic Growth and Development (1 work)