Social justice and neoliberalism: global perspectives * Adrian Smith, Alison Stenning and Katie Willis (eds)
2009; Oxford University Press; Volume: 10; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/jeg/lbp050
ISSN1468-2710
Autores Tópico(s)Social Policy and Reform Studies
ResumoSocial Justice and Neoliberalism: Global Perspectives offers the latest foray into a burgeoning new literature that is slowly beginning to eclipse the previously held notion that neoliberalism is a monolithic, homogenous and inexorable economic force that proceeds undifferentiated regardless of its geographical points of contact. In this useful new collection, Adrian Smith, Alison Stenning and Katie Willis have replaced such outdated and unsophisticated understandings with an appreciation for actually experienced, domesticated and pluralized neoliberalisms. The geographic particularities and contextual specificities of neoliberalism are foregrounded throughout the contributing chapters, revealing neoliberalization as a hybridized 'mobile technology' (Ong 2007). Social Justice and Neoliberalism explores four major themes: (i) a consideration of how neoliberalism has been resisted; (ii) the entanglements of neoliberalization with identity formation and subjectivation; (iii) the impacts neoliberal implementation has on opportunities for achieving social justice; and (iv) an exploration of alternative economic practices that arise from, or exist alongside neoliberalization through the lens of the 'diverse economies' literature and its critical questioning of 'the economic' as a coherent category. The ways in which neoliberalism articulates with existing political economic circumstances is the book's central concern, as Social Justice and Neoliberalism 'seeks to ground neoliberalism in local struggles over everyday existence and the social reproduction of the lives of peoples and communities embroiled in the ever-widening reach of marketization' (p. 2).
Referência(s)