See also: Klein

Naomi Klein born the May 5th 1970 with Montreal is a journalist, author, scenario writer and activist Canadian.

Biography

The family history of Naomi Klein is tinted of political activism. His/her large parents were Marxist American credits in the Années 1930 and 1940. His/her grandfather was returned from his station of organizer at Disney after having organized there the first Grève of the history of the studios.

His/her parents emigrated with the Canada in protest against the Guerre of Vietnam. His/her father, doctor, became a member of the movement Physicians for Social Responsibility . His/her mother carried out documentary discussed against the Pornographie, Not has Love Story . His/her brother, Seth, are director of the office of British Columbia of the Canadian Center for political alternatives.

As much of children of the generation Hippie, Naomi Klein rejected initially the political opinions of his/her parents and became enchanted by the consumer society and the marks. At 17 years, its rebellion of teenager stopped Net when his/her mother had an attack. It left the school on side to take care of it.

The career of writer of Klein started with his contributions to the newspaper The Varsity , a studying newspaper of the University of Toronto from which it was editor association. She took share with the feminist movement in 1989 at the time of the Tuerie of the polytechnic school of Montreal. She off obtained the Miliband purse of the London School Economics .

Naomi Klein became one representing of the Altermondialisation thanks to its best-seller No Logo (2000), kind of “bible” of the movement anticapitalist of the end of the Années 1990. She denounces the reduction of public space to the profit of the multinationals which are essential through their logos. She evokes the exploitation of the misery which lead according to her the modern multinationals such as McDonald's, Nike, Coca-Cola, Starbucks or Wal-Mart.

She also wrote Fences and Windows (2002) as well as articles for The Nation , The Globe and Mail , Harper' S Magazine , The Guardian and In Thesis Times , and took part in the realization of a film ( The Take ) on the phenomenon of the companies self-managed by the employees in Argentine with her husband the journalist of Canadian television Avi Lewis.

No Logo

See also: No Logo

According to it the Mondialisation made it possible to make in particular pass the production in the last plan by relegating it to the level of subcontracting in the free zones of the countries of the South. The companies thus could invest in the Marketing, i.e. to invest not in the product, but in its name. It advances that the displacement of the production to the last row of the economic chain led to cuts of manpower in the industrialized countries with the profit of precarious employment. She considers that the increase in the investment in the marketing and the process of concentration of the large companies dispossess the consumers of choice. She pushes the reflection until speaking about the dispossession of the community property to the profit of the private company. At the end of its work, Naomi Klein indicates that the marks function like metaphors of the economic system.

The Shock doctrines

The third book of Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrines: The Small channel off Disaster Capitalism , starts by treating handbook of torture the Kubark CounterIntelligence Interrogation handbook of the the CIA which describes various manners of leading a prisoner to regress until an infantile state, which Naomi Klein calls a psychological shock. This shock is used as a metaphor through the book for all the crises - natural disasters, wars, terrorist attacks - which, thanks to the psychological shock, the differently impossible realization of major economic reforms allows.

A criticism of Milton Friedman of the school of Chicago is analyzed in particular through Indonesia de Suharto of 1965, the coup d'etat of Pinochet in Chile in 1973, until the contemporary events.

The criticism of current massive privatizations of the Iraqi economy under the provisional authority of the coalition forms a wide version of the original article of Klein essay Baghdad: Year Zero published in the newspaper Harper' S Weekly . It advances there that the United States benefitted from the governmental vacuum in Iraq to found an extremely liberal economic system and to yield at Shell and BP vast oil reserves of the country.

The American army is also pointed finger for its outsourcing of the “Guerre against Terror” with Halliburton and Blackwater the USA with fatal consequences for the Iraqi inhabitants. The authorities of the Orleans News are also shown to have used the traumatism post-tsunami to carry out important reforms in the public services, like the permanent closure of hospital, social housing and schools.

Naomi Klein evokes the emergence of a new economy: the economy of safety and the crisis situations which would exceed in importance cinema industry or of the music.

Publications

  • No Logo: the tyranny of the marks
  • Fences & Windows
  • To die for McDo in Iraq: American colonization, Iraqi resistance
  • Newspaper of one fighting: News of the face of universalization , Actes Sud, 2005
  • The Shock Doctrines - The Small channel off Disaster Capitalism , Metropolitan Books, 2007,576 pages. ISBN-10: 0805079831. ISBN-13: 978-0805079838.

Cinema

  • The Take Co-realized with Avi Lewis 2004,

External bonds

  • Official site
  • Article of the journalist LISA-Marie Gervais in the newspaper the Duty , edition of September 6th, 2007, on The Shock Doctrines - The Small channel off Disaster Capitalism .

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