Full Description
Thanks to the rise of neoliberalism over the past several decades, we live in an era of rampant anxiety, insecurity, and inequality. While neoliberalism has become somewhat of an academic buzzword in recent years, this book offers a rich and multilayered introduction to what is arguably the most pressing issue of our times. Engaging with prominent scholarship in media and cultural studies, as well as geography, sociology, economic history, and political theory, author Julie Wilson pushes against easy understandings of neoliberalism as market fundamentalism, rampant consumerism, and/or hyper-individualism. Instead, Wilson invites readers to interrogate neoliberalism in true cultural studies fashion, at once as history, theory, practice, policy, culture, identity, politics, and lived experience. Indeed, the book's primary aim is to introduce neoliberalism in all of its social complexity, so that readers can see how neoliberalism shapes their own lives, as well as our political horizons, and thereby start to imagine and build alternative worlds.
Contents
Introduction
Living in Competition
Part I: Critical Foundations
Chapter One
A New Hegemony: The Rise of Neoliberalism
Chapter Two
Neoliberal Truths and Consequences: The Four Ds
Chapter Three
The Cultural Powers of Neoliberalism: A Case Study
Part II: Neoliberal Culture
Chapter Four
The Hustle: Self-Enterprise and Neoliberal Labor
Chapter Five
The Moods of Enterprise: Neoliberal Affect and the Care of the Self
Chapter Six
Enterprising Democracy: Neoliberal Citizenship and the Privatization of Politics
Conclusion
Living in Common
