The Discourse of Neoliberalism

An Anatomy of a Powerful Idea

Simon Springer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

156 Seiten

2016
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
978-1-78348-652-6 (ISBN)

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Explores the internal workings of neoliberalism by dissecting the diverse interpretations that have been advanced in academia. Using a critical geographical approach the book arrives at a discursive understanding of neoliberalism by combining interpretations from political economy with poststructuralist thought.

Why should we be worried about neoliberalism if we are not able to fully appreciate its deleterious effects? How can we fully appreciate its intricacies and power without attending to and seeking to potentially reconcile the various critical theorizations of how it actually operates?

The Discourse of Neoliberalism offers a critical political economy-meets-poststructuralist perspective on the relationship between neoliberalism and power. By advancing a geographical approach to understanding the discursive formations and material consequences of neoliberalism, the book exposes how processes of neoliberalization are shot through with violence. It argues that reading neoliberalism as a discourse better equips us to understand the power of this variegated economic formation as an expansive process of social-spatial transformation that is intimately bound up with the production of poverty, inequality, and violence across the globe. It illuminates the vital and ongoing power of neoliberalism in order to open up a critical space for thinking through how life beyond neoliberalism might be achieved.

Simon Springer is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Victoria, Canada.

Introduction: Neoliberalism- Descanting the Insalubrious / 1. Expansions, Variegations and Formations / 2. Between Hegemony and Governmentality / 3. Anxious Geopolitics / 4. Delusion, Disillusion and Denial / 5. Of Violence and Victims / 6. Zombie Apocalypse / Conclusion: From Enslavement to Obliteration / Bibliography / Index

Reihe/Serie	Discourse, Power and Society
Zusatzinfo	1 charts;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 224 mm
Gewicht	240 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	1-78348-652-X / 178348652X
ISBN-13	978-1-78348-652-6 / 9781783486526
Zustand	Neuware