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The neoliberal subject : resilience, adaptation and vulnerability
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ISBN: 1783487720 Year: 2016 Publisher: London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International,

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Political practices, agencies and institutions around the world promote the need for humans, individually and collectively, to develop capacities of resilience. We must accept and adapt to the 'realities' of an endemic condition of global insecurity and to the practice of so-called sustainable development. But in spite of claims that resilience make us more adept and capable, does the discourse of resilience undermine our ability to make our own decisions as to how we wish to live? This book draws out the theoretical assumptions behind the drive for resilience and its implications for issues of political subjectivity. It establishes a critical framework from which discourses of resilience can be understood and challenged in the fields of governance, security, development, and in political theory itself. Each part of the book includes a chapter by David Chandler and another by Julian Reid that build a passionate and provocative dialogue, individually distinct and offering contrasting perspectives on core issues. It concludes with an insightful interview with Gideon Baker. In place of resilience, the book argues that we need to revalorize an idea of the human subject as capable of acting on and transforming the world, rather than being cast in a permanent condition of enslavement to it.--


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Europe since 1989 : a history
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ISBN: 1400882893 Year: 2016 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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The year 1989 brought the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. It was also the year that the economic theories of Reagan, Thatcher, and the Chicago School achieved global dominance. And it was these neoliberal ideas that largely determined the course of the political, economic, and social changes that transformed Europe-both east and west-over the next quarter century. This award-winning book provides the first comprehensive history of post-1989 Europe.Philipp Ther-a firsthand witness to many of the transformations, from Czechoslovakia during the Velvet Revolution to postcommunist Poland and Ukraine-offers a sweeping narrative filled with vivid details and memorable stories. He describes how liberalization, deregulation, and privatization had catastrophic effects on former Soviet Bloc countries. He refutes the idea that this economic "shock therapy" was the basis of later growth, arguing that human capital and the "transformation from below" determined economic success or failure. Most important, he shows how the capitalist West's effort to reshape Eastern Europe in its own likeness ended up reshaping Western Europe as well, in part by accelerating the pace and scope of neoliberal reforms in the West, particularly in reunified Germany. Finally, bringing the story up to the present, Ther compares events in Eastern and Southern Europe leading up to and following the 2008-9 global financial crisis.A compelling and often-surprising account of how the new order of the New Europe was wrought from the chaotic aftermath of the Cold War, this is essential reading for understanding Europe today.


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Dialogue social, relations du travail et syndicalisme : perspectives historiques et internationales
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ISBN: 2763732445 Year: 2016 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Presses de l'Université Laval,

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Le néolibéralisme : un autre grand récit
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ISSN: 1965829X ISBN: 9782350961255 2350961257 Year: 2016 Publisher: Paris: Les prairies ordinaires,

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Depuis plusieurs siècles, les grands débats de société ont eu pour pivot la relation entre marché et organisation. Marx aborde le capitalisme en termes de structure, comme l'instrumentalisation de la rationalité marchande par la marchandisation de la force de travail. Mais c'est en termes de tendance historique qu'il en vient à l'organisation, à partir du développement de la grande entreprise. Il la décrypte comme une autre sorte de rationalité, qui finira par échapper aux capitalistes et fournira, après l'abolition de la propriété privée et du marché, le tissu même du socialisme. Mais la théorie de Marx comporte deux insuffisances. D'abord, sur l'analyse du pouvoir. La lutte de classe est une lutte entre trois pôles et non pas deux : la classe populaire, la classe dirigeante et la classe capitaliste. Ensuite, sur celle du territoire. Comprendre les "régimes d'hégémonie", c'est comprendre comment le jeu de luttes et d'alliances entre ces trois pôles s'articule avec le système-monde. La théorie proposée ici fait tenir ensemble des concepts venus notamment de Marx, Gramsci, Foucault et des recherches sur la globalisation. Elle tente de formuler une théorie de la société et de l'histoire modernes visant à identifier la nature du néolibéralisme et son impact sur les conditions d'existence, les pratiques et les perspectives des êtres humains aujourd'hui


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L'étrange survie du néolibéralisme
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ISBN: 9782889280094 2889280098 Year: 2016 Publisher: Paris: Diaphanes,

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Lorsqu'en 2008, la banque d'investissement Lehman Brothers fait faillite, on aurait pu s'attendre à ce que l'ère néolibérale touche à sa fin. Mais c'eût été méconnaître la véritable nature du néolibéralisme, qui ne se résume pas à la suprématie du marché sur l'État. Retraçant les batailles idéologiques et politiques qui opposèrent keynésiens - partisans du levier étatique - et "néolibéraux" - thuriféraires du marché -, Colin Crouch démontre que cette bipolarisation du débat ne permet plus de comprendre les enjeux contemporains du système néolibéral. "L'étrange survie du néolibéralisme" s'efforce en effet de révéler comment ce combat s'est soldé par l'avènement de très grandes entreprises, un nouveau pouvoir qui fait désormais pièce à l'État comme aux marchés. Loin de s'apparenter à un aride examen des théories néolibérales, ce texte très accessible cherche à penser le rôle de la "société civile", la seule force, selon l'auteur, en mesure de faire face à la triade formée par le marché, l'État et les conglomérats.


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De quoi le capitalisme est-il le nom ? : métamorphoses du capitalisme
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ISBN: 9782840018919 2840018918 Year: 2016 Publisher: Paris : Maxima-Laurent du Mesnil éditeur,

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La 4ème de couverture indique : "Depuis le tounant du XXIe siècle, la recherche d'un nouveau modèle de société a donné lieu à des débats de plus en plus animés sur les alternatives possibles au capitalisme néo-libéral anglo-saxon. Ces controverses ont notamment agité les milieux européens, confrontés aux excès du capitalisme financier. La plupart des ouvrages et des articles consacrés au capitalisme s'attachent à en dénoncer les dérives et à explorer les nouvelles voies de régulation des marchés et de restauration des valeurs sociales, mais ils remontent rarement à ses sources, véhiculent parfois des idées reçues et propagent des mythes diffusés dans l'opinion publique au travers du prisme des médias. L'objectif de ce livre est au contraire de retracer l'évolution des idées, des institutions et des grands systèmes qui fondent les différentes formes du capitalisme : agraire, industriel, financier, entrepreneurial, managérial, salarial, coopératif, social, socio-culturels, post-moderne (capitalisme 3.0). L'auteur restitue les fondements de ces modèles, en révèle les aspects cachés et en dégage les idées porteuses d'avenir. Il propose ainsi au lecteur à la fois un panorama inattendu des réalités que masque le terme générique de capitalisme et une réflexion économique et sociale qui renouvelle notre perception de l'évolution du monde."


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Ruling ideas : how global neoliberalism goes local
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ISBN: 0190620102 0190600411 0190600403 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press,

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Why do some countries govern by moderate neoliberalism while others by a radical version? Looking at Spain and Romania, Ruling Ideas points to the role of local intellectual traditions, the strength of international alternatives, the resources of the local advocates of neoliberalism, and their vulnerability to external coercion.


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The origins of neoliberalism
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ISBN: 0231541740 9780231541749 0231177763 9780231177764 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York Columbia University Press

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Dotan Leshem recasts the history of the West from an economic perspective, bringing politics, philosophy, and the economy closer together and revealing the significant role of Christian theology in shaping economic and political thought. He begins with early Christian treatment of economic knowledge and the effect of this interaction on ancient politics and philosophy. He then follows the secularization of the economy in liberal and neoliberal theory.Leshem draws on Hannah Arendt's history of politics and Michel Foucault's genealogy of economy and philosophy. He consults exegetical and apologetic tracts, homilies and eulogies, manuals and correspondence, and Church canons and creeds to trace the influence of the economy on Christian orthodoxy. Only by relocating the origins of modernity in Late Antiquity, Leshem argues, can we confront the full effect of the neoliberal marketized economy on contemporary societies. Then, he proposes, a new political philosophy that re-secularizes the economy will take shape and transform the human condition.


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The discourse of neoliberalism : an anatomy of a powerful idea
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ISBN: 9781783486519 9781783486526 9781783486533 Year: 2016 Publisher: London ; Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield International,

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Why should we be worried about neoliberalism if we are not able to fully appreciate its deleterious effects? How can we fully appreciate its intricacies and power without attending to and seeking to potentially reconcile the various critical theorizations of how it actually operates? The Discourse of Neoliberalism offers a critical political economy-meets-poststructuralist perspective on the relationship between neoliberalism and power. By advancing a geographical approach to understanding the discursive formations and material consequences of neoliberalism, the book exposes how processes of neoliberalization are shot through with violence. It argues that reading neoliberalism as a discourse better equips us to understand the power of this variegated economic formation as an expansive process of social-spatial transformation that is intimately bound up with the production of poverty, inequality, and violence across the globe. It illuminates the vital and ongoing power of neoliberalism in order to open up a critical space for thinking through how life beyond neoliberalism might be achieved.


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Neoliberal capitalism and precarious work : ethnographies of accommodation and resistance
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ISBN: 178195495X Year: 2016 Publisher: Cheltenham, United Kingdom : Edward Elgar Publishing,

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Since the renaissance of market politics on a global scale, precarious work has become pervasive. Divided into two parts, the first section of this cross-disciplinary book analyses the different forms of precarious work that have arisen over the past thirty years. These transformations are captured in ethnographically orientated chapters on sweatshops; day labour; homework; unpaid contract work of Chinese construction workers; the introduction of insecure contracting in the Korean automotive industry; and the insecurity of Brazilian cane cutters. The editors and contributors then collectively

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