Neoliberal Contentions : : Diagnosing the Present / / ed. by Lois Harder, Steve Patten, Catherine Kellogg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• MitwirkendeR: Altamirano-Jiménez, Isabel,; Bakker, Isabella,; Brodie, Janine,; Clarke, John,; Degagne, Alexa,; Dobrowolsky, Alexandra,; Epperson, Brent,; Harder, Lois,; Ilcan, Suzan,; Kellogg, Catherine,; Kingfisher, Catherine,; Leifso, Justin,; Patten, Steve,; Phillips, Janet,
• HerausgeberIn: Harder, Lois,; Kellogg, Catherine,; Patten, Steve,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 1 b&w figure

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART ONE Scoping Neoliberalism -- 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 Neoliberalism and Resource Extraction: Colonial Continuities -- PART TWO Neoliberalism Meets Policy -- 4 Lean on Everything? Lean Management’s Awkward Place in Neoliberalism -- 5 Puzzles in Neoliberalism and Problems for Multiculturalism and Equality: Repatriating Immigration Policy – A Tale of Two Provinces -- 6 Challenging Narratives to Neoliberalism in Media Representations of American Health Reform: Lessons from the United States -- PART THREE Happy, Resilient Individuals -- 7 Happiness and Governance: Some Notes on Orthodox and Alternative Approaches -- 8 Mental Health, Recovery, and Prevention: Rethinking the Governance of Mental Abnormality in Canada -- 9 Situating Non-citizenship: Humanitarian Aid, Self-Reliance Schemes, and Migrant Agency -- PART FOUR Producing Neoliberal Citizens -- 10 Apologies and Raids: Public Sex, 2SLGBTQ Communities, and Neoliberalism in the Detention State -- 11 Making Canadians: Citizenship Acquisition and Foreign Adoption -- Conclusion: Neoliberal Conversations and Contentions -- Contributors