Social Harm and Neoliberalism

The Problem of Ignorance

John Gregson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

188 Seiten

2025
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-2361-3 (ISBN)

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This book links criminological, political, moral and philosophical issues to offer a deeper understanding of the problem of social harm within the neoliberal environment. With case studies illustrating the direct and indirect harms that result from neoliberal policies or harmful inaction, it also demonstrates the harms caused by individualism.

This book links criminological, political, moral, and philosophical issues to offer a deeper understanding of the problem of social harm within the neoliberal environment.

Illustrated through case studies, John Gregson shows that social harms are a problem created not only by politics or economics, states or corporations, but also by the individualism that neoliberal societies encourage. He argues that key factors that deepen the problem of social harm include the neoliberal production of ignorance and subjectivity, along with liberal modernity itself.

John Gregson is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Leeds Beckett University.

1. Introduction: The Problem of Social Harm

2. Harm Causation and Sustainment

3. Ignorance, Social Harm, Neoliberalism

4. Agnotology and Crisis Narratives: Finance, Austerity and Health

5. Governmentality, Subjectivity, Agnotology

6. The Problem of Liberal Modernity

7. Social Practices and Communities of Resistance

8. Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	20.11.2025
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Social Harm
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5292-2361-X / 152922361X
ISBN-13	978-1-5292-2361-3 / 9781529223613
Zustand	Neuware