Assembling Neoliberalism : Expertise, Practices, Subjects

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Higgins, Vaughan (Editor), Larner, Wendy (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Cultural studies.; Social sciences > Philosophy.; Political sociology.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781137582041
• DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-58204-1
• Physical Description: XVII, 331 p. 7 illus. in color. online resource.

This book examines how neoliberalism is constituted from multiple, diverse elements; how these elements are brought together and made to cohere; and the challenges, contestations, and consequences of such. Informed by assemblage thinking, the collection builds on research that emphasizes the forms o...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Assembling Neoliberalism
• 2. Neoliberalism and Rule by Experts
• 3. Assuming Everything Except Responsibility: Can We Blame Economists for Neoliberalism?
• 4. Assembling Climate Expertise: Carbon Markets, Neoliberalism and Science
• 5. The Politics of Expertise: Neoliberalism, Governance, and the Practice of Politics
• 6. Assembling Citizenship in Austere Times
• 7. (Re)Assembling Neoliberal Logics in the Service of Climate Justice: Fuzziness and Perverse Consequences in the Fossil Fuel Divestment Assemblage
• 8. The Mouse that Died: Stabilizing Economic Practices in Free Trade Space
• 9. Mapping Neoliberalism: Animal Health and the Spatial Practices of Disease Management
• 10. Mapping Happiness, Managing Urban Emotions
• 11. Sharing Subjects and Legality: Ambiguities in Moving Beyond Neoliberalism
• 12. "Doing Good": Affect, Neoliberalism, and Responsibilization Among Volunteers in China and the United States
• 13. The Resilient Subject
• 14. Economics, Experiments, Evidence: Poor Behavior and the Development of Market Subjects
• 15. Conclusion: Awkward Assemblages. .