Neoliberal Contentions: Diagnosing the Present

Neoliberalism has significantly influenced social life and research in the social sciences since the 1980s, shaping relationships between citizens and the state, consumers and the market, and individuals and groups. "Neoliberal Contentions" offers original essays that explore neoliberalism in various guises, including economic policy and restructuring, resource extraction, multiculturalism and equality, migration and citizenship, health reform, housing policy, and 2SLGBTQ communities. It challenges 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 and resisted.

Format: Hardback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 26 January 2023
Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Neoliberalism has had a significant impact on social life and research in the social sciences since the 1980s. It 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, including 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 Brodies scholarship as a springboard for their own distinct analyses of pressing political and social issues. Acknowledging neoliberalisms 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.

Weight: 560g
Dimension: 234 x 157 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781487560881