Son, K.-M. The making of the neoliberal subject: Response to Whyte (2019) Political Theory, 47 (2), pp. 185-193. DOI: 10.1177/0090591718774572 Abstract In her recent essay, Jessica Whyte has challenged the tendency to repurpose Friedrich Hayek’s thought for a progressive and participatory politics. Objecting to such thinkers as Michel Foucault and William Connolly who find inspiration …
Rowe, E., Lubienski, C., Skourdoumbis, A., Gerrard, J., Hursh, D. Templates, typologies and typifications: neoliberalism as keyword (2019) Discourse, 40 (2), pp. 150-161. DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2019.1569875 Abstract Neoliberalism as a concept, ideology, or theoretical lens has emerged in the last couple of decades as a monolithic presence in education research, and the social sciences more broadly. …
Foucault, Neoliberalism, and Beyond Edited by Stephen W. Sawyer and Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins London: Rowman & Littlefield International. Publication Date: Apr 2019 Few philosophers have garnered as much attention globally as Michel Foucault. But even within this wide reception, the consideration given to his relationship to neoliberalism has been noteworthy. However, the debate over this relationship …
Ralf Havertz, Right-Wing Populism and Neoliberalism in Germany: The AfD’s Embrace of Ordoliberalism (2019) New Political Economy, 24 (3), pp. 385-403. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2018.1484715 Abstract This article analyses the ambiguous relation between right-wing populism and neoliberalism in Germany. It concentrates on the connections between and convergence of right-wing populism and ordoliberalism, a specific type of neoliberalism that …
Mitchell Dean, What is Economic Theology? A New Governmental-Political Paradigm? (2019) Theory, Culture and Society, 36 (3), pp. 3-26. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276418787622 Abstract Countering claims of its impossibility, this paper argues for economic theology as an intelligible figure of contemporary political rationality and organization, and a distinctive analytical strategy in relation to forms of liberal and neoliberal …
Bresnihan, P. Revisiting neoliberalism in the oceans: Governmentality and the biopolitics of ‘improvement’ in the Irish and European fisheries (2019) Environment and Planning A, 51 (1), pp. 156-177. DOI: 10.1177/0308518X18803110 Abstract Foucault’s account of the emergence of biopolitics in the late 18th century helps frame the political economy of ‘improvements’ as an environmental project linked …
Izsó, J. Foucault, Simon Springer, and Postneoliberalism (2019) Review of Radical Political Economics, 51 (1), pp. 147-157. DOI: 10.1177/0486613417703200 Abstract Scholarship in Foucauldian governmentality has reemerged as a critical area of contemporary political discourse and has had a pronounced effect on neoliberal and postneoliberal research in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Perhaps the …
Social Work and Neoliberalism: The Trondheim Papers, European Journal of Social Work,, vol 22 2019 A number of the papers in this special issue refer to Foucault’s work.
Asiyanbi, A.P., Ogar, E., Akintoye, O.A. Complexities and surprises in local resistance to neoliberal conservation: Multiple environmentalities, technologies of the self and the poststructural geography of local engagement with REDD+ (2019) Political Geography, 69, pp. 128-138. DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2018.12.008 Abstract Actual local engagement with neoliberal conservation is remarkably complex and dynamic. This article advances a poststructural …
Tarasova, E. (Non-) Alternative energy transitions: Examining neoliberal rationality in official nuclear energy discourses of Russia and Poland (2018) Energy Research and Social Science, 41, pp. 128-135. DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2018.04.008 Abstract Neoliberal trends are a part of the sociopolitical contexts that shape present-day energy transitions. Economic arguments extensively used in nuclear energy discourses regarding the Nuclear …
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