The Neoliberal Subject - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Neoliberal Subject write by David Chandler. This book was released on 2016-03-23. The Neoliberal Subject available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Political practices, agencies and institutions around the world promote the need for humans, individually and collectively, to develop capacities of resilience. We must accept and adapt to the ‘realities’ of an endemic condition of global insecurity and to the practice of so-called sustainable development. But in spite of claims that resilience make us more adept and capable, does the discourse of resilience undermine our ability to make our own decisions as to how we wish to live? This book draws out the theoretical assumptions behind the drive for resilience and its implications for issues of political subjectivity. It establishes a critical framework from which discourses of resilience can be understood and challenged in the fields of governance, security, development, and in political theory itself. Each part of the book includes a chapter by David Chandler and another by Julian Reid that build a passionate and provocative dialogue, individually distinct and offering contrasting perspectives on core issues. It concludes with an insightful interview with Gideon Baker. In place of resilience, the book argues that we need to revalorize an idea of the human subject as capable of acting on and transforming the world, rather than being cast in a permanent condition of enslavement to it.
Consciousness and the Neoliberal Subject
Consciousness and the Neoliberal Subject - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Consciousness and the Neoliberal Subject write by Jon Bailes. This book was released on 2020-04-08. Consciousness and the Neoliberal Subject available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Consciousness and the Neoliberal Subject outlines a theory of ideological function and a range of ideological positions according to which individuals rationalise and accept socio-economic conditions in advanced consumer capitalist societies. Through a critical examination of the social and psychoanalytic theories of Herbert Marcuse, Fredric Jameson, and Slavoj Žižek, the author extends the understanding of ideology to consider not only the unconscious attachment to social relations, but also the importance of conscious rationalisation in sustaining ideologies. In this way, the book defines different ideologies today in terms of the manner in which they conditionally internalise a dominant neoliberal rationality, and considers the possibility that entrenched social norms may be challenged directly, through conscious engagement. It will appeal to scholars of social and political theory with interests in ideology, neoliberalism, psychoanalytic thought and critical theory.
Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism
Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism write by Chris Hann. This book was released on 2018-03-28. Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bringing together ethnographic case studies of industrial labor from different parts of the world, Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism explores the increasing casualization of workforces and the weakening power of organized labor. This division owes much to state policies and is reflected in local understandings of class. By exploring this relationship, these essays question the claim that neoliberal ideology has become the new ‘commonsense’ of our times and suggest various propositions about the conditions that create employment regimes based on flexible labor.
Brains, Media and Politics
Brains, Media and Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Brains, Media and Politics write by Rodolfo Leyva. This book was released on 2019-11-25. Brains, Media and Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Following the 2007–2008 global financial crisis, a number of prominent academics, journalists, and activists were quick to pronounce the demise of neoliberal capitalism and governance. This rather optimistic prediction, however, underestimated the extent to which neoliberalism has shaped the 21st-century world order and become entrenched in our sociopolitical and cognitive fabric. Indeed, 11 years after the crisis, and in spite of the significant levels of socioeconomic inequality, psychological distress, and environmental destruction generated by neoliberal policies and corresponding business and cultural practices, the ideological hegemony of neoliberalism has not been supplanted, nor has it really faced any serious unsettling. How, then, has neoliberalism inflected and shaped our “common-sense” understandings of what is politically, economically, and culturally viable? To help answer this question, this book combines leading theories from sociology, media-communication research, developmental psychology, and cognitive science, and draws on primary evidence from a unique mix of ethnographic, survey, and experimental studies – of young people’s leisure practices and educational experiences, of young adults’ political socialisation processes in relation to exposure to social networking sites, and of the effects of commercial media viewing on material values and support for social welfare. In doing so, it provides a nuanced and robustly empirically tested account of how the conscious and non-conscious cognitive dimensions of people’s subjectivities and everyday social practices become interpellated through and reproductive of neoliberal ideology. As such, this book will appeal to scholars across the social and behavioural sciences with interests in neoliberalism, political engagement, enculturation, social reproduction, and media effects.
Undoing the Demos
Undoing the Demos - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Undoing the Demos write by Wendy Brown. This book was released on 2015-02-06. Undoing the Demos available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a book for the age of resistance, for the occupiers of the squares, for the generation of Occupy Wall Street. The premier radical political philosopher of our time offers a devastating critique of the way neoliberalism has hollowed out democracy.
