A neoliberális állam történetisége
The historicity of the neoliberal state

Summary/Abstract: Studies of neoliberalism seem sometimes to consider the Western neoliberal trajectory as the neoliberal trajectory per se. However, conceptions of the state in the neoliberal age are deeply shaped by the specificities of the states that they study. Therefore, the development of an analytical perspective that considers the production of neoliberalism ‘at a global scale’ must take into account the trajectories of a variety of states. For even if a theory has universal ambitions, implementations or effects of theory always happen in a reality with its own historical, social and economic configuration. In an area dominated by an increasing number of Western centred theories, Africa provides an excellent occasion to decentre the analysis. Not least because in many ways Africa has been on the vanguard of austerity and reforms of the kind now affecting many European countries. I hope to move beyond a Western-centred view of neoliberal expansion in order to show that considering the ‘historicity of the state’ from a comparative perspective is necessary to understand neoliberal implementation and its variations.

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