Ethnographies of Neoliberalism by Carol J. Greenhouse (English) Paperback Book

Description: Ethnographies of Neoliberalism by Carol J. Greenhouse What happens when citizens are refashioned as consumers? Drawing on diverse disciplines and ethnographies from five continents, this collection considers neoliberal reform from the standpoint of peoples self-understandings as social and political actors. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 peoples 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 neoliberalisms 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. Author Biography Carol J. Greenhouse is Department Chair and Arthur W. Marks 19 Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University. She is the author of The Paradox of Relevance: Ethnography and Citizenship in the United States, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press, as well as coeditor of Ethnography in Unstable Places: Everyday Life in the Context of Dramatic Political Change and editor of Democracy and Ethnography: Constructing Identities in Multicultural Liberal States. Table of Contents Introduction—Carol J. GreenhousePART I. STATE INVESTMENTS IN INSECURITY1 Security and the Neoliberal State: British Political Imaginaries After 7/7—Kathleen Hall2 The War on Terror and the Paradox of Sovereignty: Declining States and States of Exception—Joseba Zulaika3 Liberalism Against Neoliberalism: Resistance to Structural Adjustment and the Fragmentation of the State in Russia and Hungary—Kim Lane Scheppele4 Japan as Mirror: Neoliberalisms Promise and Costs—Amy BorovoyPART II. POLITICS IN THE PUBLIC-PRIVATE DIVIDE5 Local Political Geography and American Political Identity—Robert R. Rodgers, Stephen Macedo6 Urbanizing the San Juan Fiesta; Civil Society and Cultural Identity in the Barrios of Caracas—Sujatha Fernandes7 Neoliberalism, Satirical Protest, and the 2004 U.S. Presidential Campaign—Angelique HaugerudPART III. MARKETS FOR CULTURAL DIVERSITY8 The Question of Freedom: Post-Emancipation South Africa in a Neoliberal Age—Anne-Maria Makhulu9 Neoliberal Cultural Heritage and Bolivias New Indigenous Public—Robert Albro10 Neoliberal Education: Preparing the Student for the New Workplace—Bonnie Urciuoli11 Harlems Pasts in Its Present—Sandhya ShuklaPART IV. AGENCY AND AMBIVALENCE12 Performing Laïcité: Gender, Agency, and Neoliberalism Among Algerians in France—Jane E. Goodman13 The "Daughters of Soul" Tour and the Politics and Possibilities of Black Music—Maureen Mahon14 Rags to Riches: Religion, Media, and the Performance of Wealth in a Neoliberal Age—Maria Frederick15 The Temporality of No Hope—Hirokazu MiyazakiNotesReferencesList of ContributorsIndexAcknowledgments Review "Engaging. . . . Readers come away with a richer understanding of how people inside and outside government have used, resisted, and been affected by the logic of neoliberalism." * Transforming Anthropology * Promotional What happens when citizens are refashioned as consumers? Drawing on diverse disciplines and ethnographies from five continents, this collection considers neoliberal reform from the standpoint of peoples self-understandings as social and political actors. Long Description 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 peoples 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 neoliberalisms 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. Review Quote "Engaging. . . . Readers come away with a richer understanding of how people inside and outside government have used, resisted, and been affected by the logic of neoliberalism."-- Transforming Anthropology Promotional "Headline" What happens when citizens are refashioned as consumers? Drawing on diverse disciplines and ethnographies from five continents, this collection considers neoliberal reform from the standpoint of peoples self-understandings as social and political actors. Details ISBN0812222326 Short Title ETHNOGRAPHIES OF NEOLIBERALISM Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press Language English ISBN-10 0812222326 ISBN-13 9780812222326 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 320.51 Year 2012 Author Carol J. Greenhouse Imprint University of Pennsylvania Press Place of Publication Pennsylvania Country of Publication United States Edited by Carol J. Greenhouse UK Release Date 2012-11-29 AU Release Date 2012-11-29 NZ Release Date 2012-11-29 US Release Date 2012-11-29 Pages 376 Publication Date 2012-11-29 Alternative 9780812200010 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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