NEOLIBERALISM AS A "VILLAIN": A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF THEORETICAL CRITICAL STANCE TOWARDS NEOLIBERALISM IN THE TEXTS FROM ANTIPODE - A RADICAL JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHY, 2010-2013

The paper represents a study of papers published in Antipode - A Radical Journal of Geography, from 2010 to 2013, in which, as to the author's assessment, a highly critical stance towards contemporary neo-liberalism exists. Hence Antipode publishes "a radical analysis of geographical issues and its intent is to engender the development of a new and better society," and, of course, a critical stance towards neo-liberalism is expected in the papers published. However, the intent of this paper is to analyze what kind of critical stance was present in the texts published in Antipode in the period of four years (2010-2013). The period of four years was taken as a referential period, especially because it started after the year in which the Great Recession struck most of the developed economies (2009). It ends with the end of the year 2013, which was the year when almost all developed economies exited the recession or the stagnation of their economies ended. Since neoliberalism, which brought the liberalization of markets, particularly the financial one, was usually blamed as the ideology behind the outbreak of the economic crisis that shocked the world in 2008 and 2009, the intention was to show how radical the leftist critique is in its perception of neoliberalism in the era of the current economic crisis. A basic content analysis was used in order to analyze the discourse that was used to describe, characterize, and critically judge contemporary neoliberal capitalism, i.e. neoliberalism. Due to the ubiquity of the topic (neoliberalism), and the critical stance of the Antipode towards it, the research contains only the texts from the studied period, in which the word "neoliberalism" was found in the title of the text or among the key words mentioned below the abstract.