Social Resilience in the Neoliberal Era

This book integrates institutional and cultural analysis to understand neoliberalism as a syncretic social process and to explore the sources of social resilience.

Peter A. Hall (Edited by), Michèle Lamont (Edited by)

9781107659841, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 29 April 2013

416 pages, 22 b/w illus. 9 tables
23.4 x 15.5 x 2.5 cm, 0.57 kg

'Well cited and researched, each chapter explores the socially disruptive effects of neoliberal policies and unpredictable, grassroots-level responses to such policies in countries across the world. The book's interdisciplinary nature gives it a fresh perspective. A worthwhile read for students of international, social, and economic policy. Summing up: highly recommended.' R. Price, Choice

What is the impact of three decades of neoliberal narratives and policies on communities and individual lives? What are the sources of social resilience? This book offers a sweeping assessment of the effects of neoliberalism, the dominant feature of our times. It analyzes the ideology in unusually wide-ranging terms as a movement that not only opened markets but also introduced new logics into social life, integrating macro-level analyses of the ways in which neoliberal narratives made their way into international policy regimes with micro-level analyses of the ways in which individuals responded to the challenges of the neoliberal era. The product of ten years of collaboration among a distinguished group of scholars, it integrates institutional and cultural analysis in new ways to understand neoliberalism as a syncretic social process and to explore the sources of social resilience across communities in the developed and developing worlds.

Introduction Peter A. Hall and Michèle Lamont
Part I. Neoliberalism: Policy Regimes, International Regimes and Social Effects: 1. The neoliberal era: ideology, policy, and social effects Peter Evans and William H. Sewell, Jr
2. Narratives and regimes of social and human rights: the Jack Pines of the neoliberal era Jane Jenson and Ron Levi
3. Neoliberal multiculturalism? Will Kymlicka
Part II. The Social Sources of Individual Resilience: 4. Responses to discrimination and social resilience under neoliberalism: the case of Brazil, Israel, and the United States Michèle Lamont, Jessica S. Welburn and Crystal Fleming
5. Stigmatization, neoliberalism, and resilience Leanne S. Son Hing
6. Security, meaning, and the home: conceptualizing multi-scalar resilience in a neoliberal era James Dunn
Part III. Social Resilience on a Macro-Scale: 7. Neoliberalism and social resilience in the developed democracies Lucy Barnes and Peter A. Hall
8. Social resilience in the neoliberal era: national differences in population health and development Daniel Keating, Arjumand Siddiqi and Quynh Nguyen
Part IV. Communities and Organizations as Sites for Social Resilience: 9. Neoliberalism in Québec: the response of a small nation under pressure Gérard Bouchard
10. Can communities succeed when states fail them? A case study of early human development and social resilience in a neoliberal era Clyde Hertzman and Arjumand Siddiqi
11. Cultural sources of institutional resilience: lessons from chieftaincy in rural Malawi Ann Swidler
12. The origins and dynamics of organizational resilience: a comparative study of two French labor organizations Marcos Ancelovici.

Subject Areas: Comparative politics [JPB]