Ethnographies of neoliberalism / edited by Carol J. Greenhouse.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Greenhouse, Carol J., 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neoliberalism.

Ethnology.

Economics--Sociological aspects.

Economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Since 2008, the global economic crisis has exposed and deepened the tensions between austerity and social security-not just as competing paradigms of recovery but also as fundamentally different visions of governmental and personal responsibility. In this sense, the core premise of neoliberalism-the dominant approach to government around the world since the 1980s-may by now have reached a certain political limit. Based on the premise that markets are more efficient than government, neoliberal reforms were pushed by powerful national and transnational organizations as conditions of investment, lending, and trade, often in the name of freedom. In the same spirit, governments increasingly turned to the private sector for what were formerly state functions. While it has become a commonplace to observe that neoliberalism refashioned citizenship around consumption, the essays in this volume demonstrate the incompleteness of that image-as the social limits of neoliberalism are inherent in its very practice.Ethnographies of Neoliberalism collects original ethnographic case studies of the effects of neoliberal reform on the conditions of social participation, such as new understandings of community, family, and gender roles, the commodification of learning, new forms of protest against corporate power, and the restructuring of local political institutions. Carol J. Greenhouse has brought together scholars in anthropology, communications, education, English, music, political science, religion, and sociology to focus on the emergent conditions of political agency under neoliberal regimes. This is the first volume to address the effects of neoliberal reform on people's self-understandings as social and political actors. The essayists consider both the positive and negative unintended results of neoliberal reform, and the theoretical contradictions within neoliberalism, as illuminated by circumstances on the ground in Africa, Europe, South America, Japan, Russia, and the United States. With an emphasis on the value of ethnographic methods for understanding neoliberalism's effects around the world in our own times, Ethnographies of Neoliberalism uncovers how people realize for themselves the limits of the market and act accordingly from their own understandings of partnership and solidarity.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction / Greenhouse, Carol J.

Part I. State Investments in Insecurity

Chapter 1. Security and the Neoliberal State / Hall, Kathleen

Chapter 2. The War on Terror and the Paradox of Sovereignty / Zulaika, Joseba

Chapter 3. Liberalism Against Neoliberalism / Scheppele, Kim Lane

Chapter 4. Japan as Mirror / Borovoy, Amy

Part II. Politics in the Public-Private Divide

Chapter 5. Local Political Geography and American Political Identity / Rodgers, Robert R. / Macedo, Stephen

Chapter 6. Urbanizing the San Juan Fiesta / Fernandes, Sujatha

Chapter 7. Neoliberalism, Satirical Protest, and the 2004 U.S. Presidential Campaign / Haugerud, Angelique

Part III. Markets for Cultural Diversity

Chapter 8. The Question of Freedom / Makhulu, Anne-Maria

Chapter 9. Neoliberal Cultural Heritage and Bolivia's New Indigenous Public / Albro, Robert

Chapter 10. Neoliberal Education / Urciuoli, Bonnie

Chapter 11. Harlem's Pasts in Its Present / Shukla, Sandhya

Part IV. Agency and Ambivalence

Chapter 12. Performing Laïcité / Goodman, Jane E.

Chapter 13. The "Daughters of Soul" Tour and the Politics and Possibilities of Black Music / Mahon, Maureen

Chapter 14. Rags to Riches / Frederick, Marla

Chapter 15. The Temporality of No Hope / Miyazaki, Hirokazu

Notes

References

Contributors

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-298) and index.

ISBN:

9780812200010

0812200012

9781283890311

1283890313

OCLC:

794700780