Ethnographies of Neoliberalism / / ed. by Carol J. Greenhouse.

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• MitwirkendeR: Albro, Robert,; Borovoy, Amy,; Fernandes, Sujatha,; Frederick, Marla,; Goodman, Jane E.,; Greenhouse, Carol J.,; Hall, Kathleen,; Haugerud, Angelique,; Macedo, Stephen,; Mahon, Maureen,; Makhulu, Anne-Maria,; Miyazaki, Hirokazu,; Rodgers, Robert R.,; Scheppele, Kim Lane,; Shukla, Sandhya,; Urciuoli, Bonnie,; Zulaika, Joseba,
• HerausgeberIn: Greenhouse, Carol J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.)

Since 2008, the global economic crisis has exposed and deepened the tensions between austerity and social security-not just as competing paradigms of recovery but also as fundamentally different visions of governmental and personal responsibility. In this sense, the core premise of neoliberalism-the dominant approach to government around the world since the 1980s-may by now have reached a certain political limit. Based on the premise that markets are more efficient than government, neoliberal reforms were pushed by powerful national and transnational organizations as conditions of investment, lending, and trade, often in the name of freedom. In the same spirit, governments increasingly turned to the private sector for what were formerly state functions. While it has become a commonplace to observe that neoliberalism refashioned citizenship around consumption, the essays in this volume demonstrate the incompleteness of that image-as the social limits of neoliberalism are inherent in its very practice.Ethnographies of Neoliberalism collects original ethnographic case studies of the effects of neoliberal reform on the conditions of social participation, such as new understandings of community, family, and gender roles, the commodification of learning, new forms of protest against corporate power, and the restructuring of local political institutions. Carol J. Greenhouse has brought together scholars in anthropology, communications, education, English, music, political science, religion, and sociology to focus on the emergent conditions of political agency under neoliberal regimes. This is the first volume to address the effects of neoliberal reform on people's self-understandings as social and political actors. The essayists consider both the positive and negative unintended results of neoliberal reform, and the theoretical contradictions within neoliberalism, as illuminated by circumstances on the ground in Africa, Europe, South America, Japan, Russia, and the United States. With an emphasis on the value of ethnographic methods for understanding neoliberalism's effects around the world in our own times, Ethnographies of Neoliberalism uncovers how people realize for themselves the limits of the market and act accordingly from their own understandings of partnership and solidarity.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. State Investments in Insecurity -- Chapter 1. Security and the Neoliberal State -- Chapter 2. The War on Terror and the Paradox of Sovereignty -- Chapter 3. Liberalism Against Neoliberalism -- Chapter 4. Japan as Mirror -- Part II. Politics in the Public-Private Divide -- Chapter 5. Local Political Geography and American Political Identity -- Chapter 6. Urbanizing the San Juan Fiesta -- Chapter 7. Neoliberalism, Satirical Protest, and the 2004 U.S. Presidential Campaign -- Part III. Markets for Cultural Diversity -- Chapter 8. The Question of Freedom -- Chapter 9. Neoliberal Cultural Heritage and Bolivia's New Indigenous Public -- Chapter 10. Neoliberal Education -- Chapter 11. Harlem's Pasts in Its Present -- Part IV. Agency and Ambivalence -- Chapter 12. Performing Laïcité -- Chapter 13. The "Daughters of Soul" Tour and the Politics and Possibilities of Black Music -- Chapter 14. Rags to Riches -- Chapter 15. The Temporality of No Hope -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments