ABSTRACT
This special issue (SI) of Globalisations brings together six contributions focused on the political
relationship between citizens, civil society, and neoliberal development policy. The dramatic
increase of ‘access to finance’ investments, newly gender-sensitive approaches to building neolib-
eral labour markets, the universal promotion of public-private partnerships and the ‘development
financing’ of extractive industries see citizens, social movements, and non-governmental organis-
ations (NGOs) engaged in and against neoliberalism in ever more intensive configurations. The
precise form of this engagement is conditioned by the perceived and real opportunities and
risks of an agenda which seeks to incorporate ‘emerging’ and ‘frontier markets’ within a world
market, with repercussions for state-society relations, citizens, and civil society.
