Since the 1980s, neoliberalism has had a major impact on social life and, in turn, research in the social sciences. Emerging from the crisis of the Keynesian welfare state, neoliberalism describes a social transformation that has impacted relationships between citizens and the state, consumers and the market, and individuals and groups.
Neoliberal Contentions offers original essays that explore neoliberalism in its various guises. It includes chapters on economic policy and restructuring, resource extraction, multiculturalism and equality, migration and citizenship, health reform, housing policy, and 2SLGBTQ communities. Drawing on the work of influential Canadian political economist Janine Brodie, the contributors use Brodie's scholarship as a springboard for their own distinct analyses of pressing political and social issues.
Acknowledging neoliberalism's crises, failures, and contradictions, this collection contends with neoliberalism by "diagnosing the present," situating the phenomenon within a broader historical and political-economic context and observing instances in which neoliberal rationality is reinforced as well as resisted.
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Höhe: 232 mm
Breite: 156 mm
Dicke: 26 mm
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978-1-4875-6088-1 (9781487560881)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Lois Harder is Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and a professor of political science at the University of Victoria.
Catherine Kellogg is a professor and chair in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta.
Steve Patten is Dean of Arts and a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta.
Introduction
Lois Harder, Catherine Kellogg, and Steve Patten
1. Turbulent Times: Towards A Conjunctural Analysis of Neoliberalism and the Politics of the Present
John Clarke
2. Neoliberal False Economies and Paradoxes of Social Reproduction
Isabella Bakker
3. Lean on Everything? Lean Management's Awkward Place in Neoliberalism
Justin Leifso
4. Present Day Puzzles in Neoliberalism and Problems for Multiculturalism and Equality:
Re-patriating Immigration Policy, A Tale of Two Provinces
Alexandra Dobrowolsky
5. Challenging Narratives to Neoliberalism in Media Representations of American Health Reform: Lessons from the United States
Brent Epperson
6. Happiness and Governance: Some Notes on Orthodox and Alternative Approaches
Catherine Kingfisher
7. Mental Health, Recovery, and Prevention: Re-thinking the Governance of Mental Abnormality in Canada
Janet Phillips
8. Apologies and Raids: Public Sex, LGBTQ2S Communities, and Neoliberalism in the Detention State
Alexa DeGagne
9. Trump, Indigenous Refusal, and the End of Neoliberalism?
Isabel Altamirano-Jimenez
10. Situating Noncitizenship: Humanitarian Aid, Self-Reliance Schemes, and Migrant Agency
Suzan Ilcan
11. Making Canadians: Citizenship Acquisition and Foreign Adoption
Lois Harder
12. Neoliberal Conversations and Contentions
Janine Brodie
Index
