Description
Neoliberalism remains a flashpoint for political contestation around the world. For decades now, neoliberalism has been in the process of becoming a globally ascendant default logic that prioritizes using economic rationality for all major decisions, in all sectors of society, at the collective level of state policymaking as well as the personal level of individual choice-making. Donald Trump's recent presidential victory has been interpreted both as a repudiation and as a validation of neoliberalism窶冱 hegemony.
Rethinking Neoliberalism brings together theorists, social scientists, and public policy scholars to address neoliberalism as a governing ethic for our times. The chapters interrogate various dimensions of debates about neoliberalism while offering engaging empirical examples of neoliberalism窶冱 effects on social and urban policy in the USA, Europe, Russia, and elsewhere. Themes discussed include:
- Relationship between neoliberalism, the state, and civil society
- Neoliberalism and social policy to discipline citizens
- Urban policy and how neoliberalism reshapes urban governance
- What it will take politically to get beyond neoliberalism.
Written in a clear and accessible style, Rethinking Neoliberalism is a sophisticated synthesis of theory and practice, making it a compelling read for students of Political Science, Public Policy, Sociology, Geography, Urban Planning, Social Work and related fields, at both the advanced undergraduate and graduate levels.
Table of Contents
Introduction [Sanford F. Schram and Marianna Pavlovskaya] Part 1: Theorizing Neoliberalism: The Individual, the Subject and the Power of the State 1. Nothing Personal [Jodi Dean] 2. The Secret Life of Neoliberal Subjectivity [Mitchell Dean] 3. Foucault窶冱 Three Ways of Decentering the State: Perspectives on the State, Civil Society and Neoliberalism [Kaspar Villadsen] Part 2: Reconstructing the Individual via Social Policy 4. Investing in Social Subjects: The European Turn to Social Investment as the Human Capital Theory of Social Citizenship [Bettina Leibetseder] 5. Ontologies of Poverty in Russia and Duplicities of Neoliberalism [Marianna Pavlovskaya] 6. Neoliberalism Viewed from the Bottom Up: A Qualitative Longitudinal Study of Benefit Claimants窶� Experiences of the Unemployment System [Sophie Danneris] 7. Neoliberal Talk: The Routinized Structures of Document-Focused Social Worker-Client Discourse [Maureen Matarese and Dorte Caswell] Part 3: The Neoliberal Disciplinary Regime: Policing Indentured Citizens 8. Criminal Justice Predation and Neoliberal Governance [Joshua Page and Joe Soss] 9. Neoliberalism and Police Reform [Leonard Feldman] Part 4: Urban Governance: At Home and Abroad 10. Neoliberalizing Detroit [Jamie Peck and Heather Whiteside] 11. Political Dissent Amman, Jordan: Neoliberal Geographies of Protest and Policing [Jillian Schwedler] Part 5: Forward: Working Through Neoliberalism 12. The Knight's Move: Social Policy Change in an Age of Consolidated Power [Sanford F. Schram] 13. Neoliberalism: Towards A Critical Counter-Conduct [Barbara Cruikshank]
