Critique and resistance in a neoliberal age : towards a narrative of emancipation / Charles Masquelier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Masquelier, Charles, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neoliberalism.

Physical Description:

xiii, 272 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]

Contents:

Acknowledgements; Contents; 1: Introduction; Defining Neoliberalism; The Core Functions of Emancipatory Critique; Defetishizing Social Reality; Exploring the Mechanisms of Domination; Diagnosing the Nature of, and Prospects for, Resistance; Structure of the Book; Part I: Neoliberal Processes; 2: Introduction of Part I; 3: Financialization; The Core Features of Financialization; Financialization and the Socio-Economic Structure; On the Financialization of Culture; Financialization and the "Inflation of Culture"; 4: Flexibilization; Flexibilization as Economic Process

From Flexibilization to Precarization On the Cultural Dimension of Flexibilization; Defetishizing Flexibility; 5: Personal Responsibilization; Personal Responsibilization and the Neoliberal State; Explaining the Rise of the "Entrepreneurial Self"; Bringing Neoliberalism Back in the Analysis; Ideology and Personal Responsibilization; 6: Privatization; From Economic Process to Cultural Force; Privatization and the New Cultural "Condition"; Privatization and Ideology; 7: The Neoliberalization of Nature; Social Theory and Nature: Some Preliminary Considerations

Neoliberal Processes and Nature More Than a Mere Reorganization of Nature; 8: Conclusion of Part I; Part II: Domination; 9: Introduction of Part II; 10: Probing Neoliberal Domination; Class Domination; Race, Gender and Domination; Exploring the Links Between Economic and Cultural Domination; Environmental Domination and the Four Neoliberal Processes; Linking Social and Environmental Domination: Conceptual Premises; 11: Conceptualizing Neoliberal Domination; Economic Facts, Economic Power and Political Power; The Moral Authority of Neoliberal Economic Facts

Ideology and Economic Facts: Some Preliminary Considerations Economic Facts and Symbolic Domination; Social, Environmental and Symbolic Domination; 12: Modernization and the Neoliberal Condition; The Problem with Self-Adjustment; The Transmutation of Values and De-modernization; The Transmutation of Values Illustrated; 13: Conclusion of Part II; Part III: Resistance; 14: Introduction of Part III; 15: Making Sense of Contemporary Social Movements; The Movements in Context; The Movements and the Neoliberal Regime of Symbolic Domination; Imagining a World Beyond Economic Rationality

16: Conceptualizing Resistance The "Double Movement" Thesis and Symbolic Domination; On the Interplay of the Economy and Culture in Resistance; Nature and the Conceptualization of Resistance; 17: On the Agent of Resistance; An Agent in Conceptual Evolution; The Subject as "Collective Will"; Leaving Anthropocentrism Behind, but Not Emancipation; 18: Conclusion of Part III; Part IV: Emancipation; 19: Introduction of Part IV; 20: Emancipatory Political Action Reimagined; Defining Emancipation; The Rise of Individualization and Apparent Demise of Emancipatory Action

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1137401931

9781137401939

OCLC:

959953225