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

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 t...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
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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