Abstract
Although a predominantly economic process whereby public goods are turned into private assets, neoliberal privatization strategies have played an essential role in shaping those narrative components making up a divisive culture of ownership, with which contemporary social life is explained, defined and assessed. The task of this chapter consists in revealing the structures of economic and political power connected to, along with the cultural resources mobilized in, the process itself that have been responsible for cultivating the culture of ownership in question.
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Such a strategy was more recently pursued by the British Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron.
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Masquelier, C. (2017). Privatization. In: Critique and Resistance in a Neoliberal Age. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-40194-6_6
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