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Neoliberal Contentions
Diagnosing the Present
Lois Harder (Edited by), Catherine Kellogg (Edited by), Steve Patten (Edited by)
9781487560881
Hardback, published 26 January 2023
304 pages, 1 b&w figure
23.4 x 15.7 x 2.5 cm, 0.56 kg
Since the 1980s, neoliberalism has had a major impact on social life and, in turn, research in the social sciences. Emerging from the crisis of the Keynesian welfare state, neoliberalism describes a social transformation that has impacted relationships between citizens and the state, consumers and the market, and individuals and groups. Neoliberal Contentions offers original essays that explore neoliberalism in its various guises. It includes chapters on economic policy and restructuring, resource extraction, multiculturalism and equality, migration and citizenship, health reform, housing policy, and 2SLGBTQ communities. Drawing on the work of influential Canadian political economist Janine Brodie, the contributors use Brodie’s scholarship as a springboard for their own distinct analyses of pressing political and social issues. Acknowledging neoliberalism’s crises, failures, and contradictions, this collection contends with neoliberalism by "diagnosing the present," situating the phenomenon within a broader historical and political-economic context and observing instances in which neoliberal rationality is reinforced as well as resisted.
Introduction 1. Turbulent Times: Towards A Conjunctural Analysis of Neoliberalism and the Politics of the Present 2. Neoliberal False Economies and Paradoxes of Social Reproduction 3. Lean on Everything? Lean Management’s Awkward Place in Neoliberalism 4. Present Day Puzzles in Neoliberalism and Problems for Multiculturalism and Equality: 5. Challenging Narratives to Neoliberalism in Media Representations of American Health Reform: Lessons from the United States 6. Happiness and Governance: Some Notes on Orthodox and Alternative Approaches 7. Mental Health, Recovery, and Prevention: Re-thinking the Governance of Mental Abnormality in Canada 8. Apologies and Raids: Public Sex, LGBTQ2S Communities, and Neoliberalism in the Detention State 9. Trump, Indigenous Refusal, and the End of Neoliberalism? 10. Situating Noncitizenship: Humanitarian Aid, Self-Reliance Schemes, and Migrant Agency 11. Making Canadians: Citizenship Acquisition and Foreign Adoption 12. Neoliberal Conversations and Contentions Index
Lois Harder, Catherine Kellogg, and Steve Patten
John Clarke
Isabella Bakker
Justin Leifso
Re-patriating Immigration Policy, A Tale of Two Provinces
Alexandra Dobrowolsky
Brent Epperson
Catherine Kingfisher
Janet Phillips
Alexa DeGagne
Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez
Suzan Ilcan
Lois Harder
Janine Brodie