We write the 'month after' the economic crisis has revealed in stark terms the social and economic insecurities of global capitalism that many around the world have been struggling and suffering with for years. Now that the bubble of capitalism has 'officially' burst and the investments of the privileged are in jeopardy, might the exposed hazards of all-out deregulation signal that we are at the beginning of the end of neoliberalism or at least ready to curb some of its excesses?rnWe also-more thrillingly-write the 'morning after' the US electorate decisively and enthusiastically voted in Barack Obama, our first biracial president, an antiwar candidate in a time of war, a community organizer, and outspoken advocate for the working poor and middle class. His election represents a sea change signaling opposition to the imperial presumptions and political economic principles that have characterized the last eight years of US politics, and also marks a moment of extraordinary symbolic and material significance that shifts the grounds on which identity is produced, performed, and given meaning in the US.
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