Neoliberal Contentions: Diagnosing the Present

Lois Harder (Curatore)

Catherine Kellogg (Curatore)

University of Toronto Press, 2023

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.

• Curatore: Lois Harder, Catherine Kellogg
• Editore: University of Toronto Press
• Anno: 2023
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 304 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 157 mm
• Peso: 560 gr.
• EAN: 9781487560881

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