Social Harm and Neoliberalism : The Problem of Ignorance.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gregson, John.

Series:

Studies in Social Harm Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (189 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2025.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Social Harm and Neoliberalism The Problem of Ignorance

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction: The Problem of Social Harm

Introduction

Structure and outline

Neoliberalism: contestations and conceptual approaches

2 Harm Causation and Sustainment

Harm and social structure

Harm causation: Pemberton, Bauman and moral indifference

The contributions of ultra realism

Beyond moral indifference and the positive motivation to harm: the importance of ignorance

Developing agnotology through governmentality

Developing the framework: liberal modernity and MacIntyre

Neoliberalism as agnotology

3 Ignorance, Social Harm, Neoliberalism

Ignorance as concept

Ignorance and social harm

Neoliberalism and ignorance

Social ignorance

Strategic ignorance

4 Agnotology and Crisis Narratives: Finance, Austerity and Health

The financial crisis and ignorance

Austerity and agnotology

The COVID crisis and agnotology

Crises, agnoses and social harm

5 Governmentality, Subjectivity, Agnotology

Introduction: An agnoses of subjectivity

Governmentality

Neoliberal subjectivity

Neoliberal ignorance and techniques of governance

Agnoses, subjectivity and vulnerability

From neoliberal governmentality to liberal modernity

6 The Problem of Liberal Modernity

Why MacIntyre?

Telos, morality and social life

Liberalism and rights

Social structure and liberal individualism

Social structure, subjectivity and social harm

Social structure: practical rationality and compartmentalization

Conclusion: Where to now?

7 Social Practices and Communities of Resistance

Social harm: debates and issues.

Aristotelianism

Social practices and communities of resistance

Resistance in practice

8 Conclusion

References

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5292-2364-4

9781529223644