1 Introduction: concepts for a geography of power . . . . . 1
What are concepts? | 3 Policy regimes | 4 Ideology | 10
Hegemony | 12 Interpretation | 14 Discourse | 15
Governmentality | 17 Institutional geography | 19
Geography of power | 21 Global governance | 24
Power and policy | 25
2 Economic power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Global finance capital | 29 Fordism and capital | 31
Money/power | 33 Wall Street influences | 37 Global
risk management | 42 Foreign direct investment | 46
From global risk to global angst | 50
3 Ideological power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Policy as enlightenment | 54 The geography of reason | 56
Geography of academia | 60 Hierarchies of knowledge | 61
Economics as discipline | 63 The discourse of Keynesian
economics | 65 The discourse of neoliberal economics | 72
Critique of neoliberalism | 79 Economics as tragedy | 81
4 Political power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
The great U-turn | 85 The Counter-Establishment | 88
Think tanks | 91 Freedom and democracy | 94
Government bureaucracy – the Fed | 98 Government
bureaucracy – the Treasury | 99 The IFIs | 105
The Washington Consensus | 109 After the Washington
Consensus | 113 The Washington Consensus reappraised | 115
Benevolent consensus | 118 Millennium | 125
Hope and charity | 127
5 Sub-hegemony: South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Discourse of resistance | 130 Discourse of development | 134
Disciplining the ANC | 137 Getting in GEAR | 142
Sub-hegemony | 144
6 Counter-hegemony. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
WSF alternative principles | 153 UN agencies | 155
UNCTAD | 156 UNDP | 159 Development NGOs | 160
Counter-hegemonic praxis | 164 The Bolivarian
alternative | 168 The Bolivian alternative | 176
Counter-expertise | 181
7 The three neos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Neo-imperialism | 184 Neoconservatism | 186 From
neoconservatism to neoliberalism | 189 Neoliberalism
and its discontents | 191