Resisting Neoliberalism with Shalmali Guttal

Earth Matters · Nov 20, 2016

Shalmali Guttal has worked for decades researching, writing and organising around the impacts of neoliberal development in Southeast Asia. She says that the ideology of private over public interest has become widespread in Asia in the last three decades, with detrimental effects for Indigenous people, women, workers and the environment. Shalmali argues that the new generation of proposed and operating free trade agreements are the most aggressive in pushing neoliberal polices we’ve yet seen, giving the examples of the intellectual property regulations governing medicines and seeds. In the…