Edges of Identity

The Production of Neoliberal Subjectivities

Jonathon Louth, Martin Potter, Jonathon Louth, Martin Potter

• Publisher: University of Chester Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781908258243
• eBook ISBN: 9781908258458
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

In recent decades neoliberalism has emerged as the ruling economic, political and cultural ideology of our time. Originally construed as an economic philosophy, neoliberalism is better understood today as a broad world view that emphasises free-market policies, deregulation, individualism, self-management and personal resilience at the expense of more collective, social-democratic policies and principles. Neoliberalism is a pervasive ideology that has shaped our lives for more than 40 years, from the wide-ranging organisational structures of our global economy to our most intimate bodily practices. In this engaging and accessible volume, Jonathon Louth and Martin Potter bring together researchers working in and across Europe, Asia, Australia and North America to elucidate on the manifold ways in which neoliberalism produces our subjectivities. Taking in nations and citizenship, urban transformation, gender, work, (dis)ability, sexual performance and cognitive function, this volume demonstrates the astonishing scope of neoliberalism to inform and delimit our identities on both macro and micro levels of social and personal life. Combining thoughtful theoretical accounts with fascinating fieldwork and spanning areas of inquiry including the UK, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Pakistan, Cambodia, Japan and Australia, Edges of Identity provides a remarkable collection of global perspectives on the impact of neoliberalism in contemporary international contexts. This tenth volume in the Issues in the Social Sciences series is an absorbing introduction to the practical affects and lived realities of neoliberal ideology that will appeal both to readers encountering neoliberalism for the first time and expert scholars in the Social Sciences and Humanities.

Table of contents

• Front cover
• Inside front cover
• Title pages
• Copyright page
• Contents pages
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Contributors
• Introduction - The Production of Neoliberal Subjectivities: Constellations of Domination and Resistance - Jonathon Louth and Martin Potter
• Chapter One - Consuming Environmental Citizenship, or the Production of Neoliberal Green Citizens - Benito Cao
• Chapter Two - 'Empowered Girls' in Neoliberal Times: Malala as the Effect of Heterogeneous Discourses - Shenila Khoja-Moolji
• Chapter Three - Our Borders: Neoliberalism, Identity and Asylum Seeker Policy in Australia, 2001-2013 - Ben Revi
• Chapter Four - "The Way You Make Me Feel": Shame and the Neoliberal Governance of Disability Welfare Subjectivities in Australia and the UK - Karen Soldatic and Hannah Morgan
• Chapter Five - Subjects or Subjected? The Puzzle of Identity in Neoliberal Times - Tom Brock and Mark Carrigan
• Chapter Six - Ejaculatory Timing and Masculine Identities: The Politics of Ab/normalising Sexual Performance - Hannah Frith
• Chapter Seven - Neoliberal Ideology and Shifting 'Salarymen Identity' Under Corporate Restructuring in Japan - Nana Okura Gagne
• Chapter Eight - Urban Transformations, Work and the Idea of Social Solitude Among Two Generations of Men in Surabaya, East Java - Matteo Carlo Alcano
• Chapter Nine - Neoliberalising Mostar: Governmentality, Ethno-National Division and Everyday Forms of Resistance - Giulia Carabelli and Rowan Lubbock
• Chapter Ten: Urban Transformations in Phnom Penh: Creative Collectives, the White Building and the Production of Space - Jonathon Louth and Martin Potter
• Chapter Eleven - Exploring the Formation and Reproduction of Neoliberal Subjectivities: A Socio-cognitive Approach - Rodolfo Leyva
• Index
• Inside back cover
• Back cover