Newness and Responsibility: Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine
Adam Kaasa
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Issue 07
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Adam Kaasa reviews Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Allen Lane, 2007). Klein’s thesis that over the past 50 years, shock is the context within which unpopular free-market policies are able to penetrate democratic institutions and buffer themselves from democratic resistance is explored using the concept of newness and responsibility
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Adam Kaasa is an MPhil/PhD candidate in the Cities Programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research focus is on transnational discussions of modernism and the resulting articulation of citizenship practice in the built environment, specifically working around the transatlantic architectural and political scene of Mexico in the early twentieth century. At the LSE he is a Research Associate for the Urban Age Programme, an investigation into the future of cities, and runs the NYLON seminars in London, a branch of the Culture Project directed by Richard Sennett (LSE) and Craig Calhoun (NYU).
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