ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses debates around neoliberalism and the contemporary moment by examining what the authors have called the 'politics of legality in a neoliberal age'. How they theorise neoliberalism matters a great deal, as different accounts of, it can lead to very different conclusions about how to respond to the politics of our time. Neoliberalism is an unfinished project, and the only adequate response to the Financial Crisis is to finally liberate 'free market' capitalism from the last vestiges of the regulation restraining it. Zeynep Kivilcim argues that, 'Articulating human rights discourse in local struggles in a neoliberal age', concludes the collection itself by focusing empirically upon a particular instance of popular mobilisation against neoliberal economic policies. The instance that they focuses upon is the campaign against the Turkish state's plan to construct two thousand hydroelectric power plants by the end of 2023.
