Capital Fixity and Mobility in Response to the 2008-09 Crisis: Variegated Neoliberalism in Mexico and Turkey

The article examines the 2008-9 crisis responses in Mexico and Turkey as examples of variegated neoliberalism. The simultaneous interests of corporations and banks relative to the national fixing of capital and their mobility in the form of global investment heavily influenced each state authority’s policy responses to the crisis at the expense of the interests of the poor, workers, and peasantry. Rather than pitching this as either evidence of persistent national differentiation or some Keynesian state resurgence, we argue from a historical materialist geographical framework that the responses of capital and state authorities in Mexico and Turkey actively constitute and reconstitute the global parameters of market regulatory design and neoliberal class rule through each state’s distinct domestic policy formation and crisis management processes. While differing in specific content the form of Mexico and Turkey’s state responses to the crisis ensured continuity in their foregoing neoliberal strategies of development and capital accumulation, most notably in the continued oppression of workers. That is, the prevailing strategy of accumulation continues to be variegated neoliberalism

Por la Intendencia de temporalidades se ha anunciado al publico que se van á dar en arrendamiento todas las fincas que pertenecian á los Conventos extinguidos

Public annoucement on behalf of the Directory of the Temporalidades. Oblong quarto. 1p

On behalf of the Temporalidades it is announced to the public that all the landholdings belonging to the suppressed convents will be made available for lease

Public annoucement on behalf of the Directory of the Temporalidades. Oblong quarto. 1p.This document is an English translation of the "Por la Intendencia de temporalidades se ha anunciado al publico que se van á dar en arrendamiento todas las fincas que pertenecian á los Conventos extinguidos." Translated by Lorena Gauthereau-Bryson. The language of the original document is Spanish

El Ciudadano Ramon Rayon, General de Brigada Y Gobernador Del Distrito Federal [Mexico], 12 de marzo 1835

Initialed in manuscript by Governor Rayon. Describing the national debt of the Mexican states and declaring that Sonora (of which Arizona is still a part) and Sinaloa are responsible for payment of at least twenty percent of that debt. (oversize

Decree from Ramon Rayon, Brigadier General and Governor of the Federal District of Mexico, March 12, 1835

Initialed in manuscript by Governor Rayon. Describing the national debt of the Mexican states and declaring that Sonora (of which Arizona is still a part) and Sinaloa are responsible for payment of at least twenty percent of that debt. (oversize)This document is an English translation of the "El Ciudadano Ramon Rayon, General de Brigada Y Gobernador Del Distrito Federal [Mexico], 12 de marzo 1835." Translated by Lorena Gauthereau-Bryson. The language of the original document is Spanish