Schram / PAVLOVSKAYA Rethinking Neoliberalism

Resisting the Disciplinary Regime
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-73648-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

This book is a collection of essays from a two-year long faculty seminar on neoliberalism at Hunter College, CUNY. Various presenters contributed chapters, some examining particular theoretical issues and others more empirical in orientation, focusing on politics, policymaking and issues of governance. An organizing theme for the collection is that neoliberalism is a hegemonic governing ethic regimenting subordinate populations into a market-centered society. For decades now, neoliberalism has been ascendant as the 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. Neoliberalism promotes a market-centered society and disciplines people to be compliant in adhering to its strictures, incentivizing market consistent behavior and punishing people when they fail to comply. The chapters in this volume were in most cases completed before Donald Trump became the U.S. President, with some commentators arguing that his victory represents a repudiation of neoliberalism as a regime of governance. Others have argued that Trump personally embodies a neoliberal approach to governing. Regardless, the analyses collected in this volume are likely to endure in relevance beyond his presidency. For now, neoliberalism remains a flashpoint for political contestation. The essays collected in this volume interrogate neoliberalism critically and therefore provide resources for resisting its ongoing hegemony.

This collection of papers is from an impressive group of scholars. They provide important insights on neoliberalism as an ideology and as a practice. Key themes in the various chapters include:

- Theoretical debates vital for understanding the origins of neoliberalism as an ideology

- 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 consistently clear and accessible style, Rethinking Neoliberalism offers new and important insights and analyses for understanding neoliberalism, its origins, its philosophical and ethical orientations, and its influence on politics, policymaking and governance today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schram, Sanford F.

PAVLOVSKAYA, MARIANNA

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Konservativismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Liberalismus, Libertarismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Introduction

Sanford F. Schram and Marianna Pavlovskaya

Part 1 Theorizing Neoliberalism: The Individual, the Subject and the Power of the State

Chapter 1 Nothing Personal

Jodi Dean

Chapter 2 The Secret Life of Neoliberal Subjectivity

Mitchell Dean

Chapter 3 Foucault’s Three Ways of Decentering the State: Perspectives on the State, Civil Society and Neoliberalism

Kaspar Villadsen

Part 2 Reconstructing the Individual via Social Policy

Chapter 4 Investing in Social Subjects: The European Turn to Social Investment as the Human Capital Theory of Social Citizenship

Bettina Leibetseder

Chapter 5 Ontologies of Poverty in Russia and Duplicities of Neoliberalism

Marianna Pavlovskaya

Chapter 6 Neoliberalism Viewed from the Bottom Up: A Qualitative Longitudinal Study of Benefit Claimants’ Experiences of the Unemployment System

Sophie Danneris

Chapter 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

Chapter 8 Criminal Justice Predation and Neoliberal Governance

Joshua Page and Joe Soss

Chapter 9 Neoliberalism and Police Reform

Leonard Feldman

Part 4 Urban Governance: At Home and Abroad

Chapter 10 Neoliberalizing Detroit

Jamie Peck and Heather Whiteside

Chapter 11 Political Dissent Amman, Jordan: Neoliberal Geographies of Protest and Policing

Jillian Schwedler

Part 5 Forward: Working Through Neoliberalism

Chapter 12 The Knight's Move: Social Policy Change in an Age of Consolidated Power

Sanford F. Schram

Chapter 13 Neoliberalism: Towards A Critical Counter-Conduct

Barbara Cruikshank

Über Autor(innen)

Sanford Schram teaches at Hunter College, CUNY where he is Professor of Political Science and Faculty Associate at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute. He also teaches at the CUNY Graduate Center. His published books include Words of Welfare: The Poverty of Social Science and the Social Science of Poverty (1995) and Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race (2011)—co-authored with Joe Soss and Richard Fording. Both books won the Michael Harrington Award from the American Political Science Association. His latest book is The Return to Ordinary Capitalism: Neoliberalism, Precarity, Occupy (Oxford University Press, 2015). Schram is the 2012 recipient of the Charles McCoy Career Achievement Award from the Caucus for a New Political Science.

Marianna Pavlovskaya is a Professor of Geography at Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center. She has a MA in geography from Moscow State University and a PhD in geography from Clark University. Her major fields include urban geography, feminist geography, and critical GIS (Geographic Information Science). Her current research examines neoliberalism and the production of economic difference in post-Soviet Russia, the role of the census, statistics, and geo-spatial data in constitution of the social body, the relationship between gender, class, and work-related migration, and the emergence of the solidarity economy in the United States. Her work appeared in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Geoforum, Europe-Asia Studies, Environment and Planning A, Cartographica, Urban Geography, and many edited volumes. She worked on international research projects with colleagues from Norway, Uganda, and Russia.