Neoliberalism, Economic Radicalism, and the Normalization of Violence [electronic resource] /
Berdayes, Vicente.editor.
Murphy, John W.editor.
This compelling volume analyzes the wide-scale societal impact of neoliberal economic policy on contemporary life and behavior. Synthesizing perspectives from politics and economics with insights from psychology and linguistics, it argues that market-driven public institutions promote antisocial thinking, discourage critical reflection, and inure individuals to inequity and cruelty. Chapters cite the ubiquity of violence in modern society, from the marketing of the military to impersonal mass upheavals in the job market, as devaluing human worth and thus self-worth. But the editors also assert that these currents are not terminal, and the book concludes by identifying conditions potentially leading to a more civil and egalitarian future. Included in the coverage: The language of current economics: social theory, the market, and the disappearance of relationships. Neoliberalism and education: the disfiguration of students. Slicing up societies: commercial media and the destruction of social environments. Neoliberalism and the transformation of work. Economics, the network society, and the ontology of violence. A new economic order without violence. Given the centrality of economic events on the global stage, Neoliberalism, Economic Radicalism, and the Normalization of Violence stands out as both a springboard for discussion and a call to action, to be read by political and cultural economists, political scientists, and sociologists.
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Series Editors Introduction; Contents; Contributors; Chapter-1; Introduction: Language, Social Order, and Neoliberal Violence; Modes of Degradation; Existence Within the Machine; No Exit; New Inspiration; Conclusion; References; Chapter-2; The Language of Current Economics: Social Theory, the Market, and the Disappearance of Relationships; Nominalists and Fragmentation; Realism and Domination; The Market and Society; The Overlooked In-Between; Conclusion; References; Chapter-3; Neoliberalism and Education: The Disfiguration of Students; A Quick Look at Neoliberalism
Neoliberalism and Public Education in the USAMoving Forward with Dignity: Rethinking the World Through Education; References; Chapter-4; The Entrepreneur as Hero?; The Hero's and the Heroic Adventure; Entrepreneurship: Its Markings and Process; The Entrepreneur as Risk-Taker; The Twenty-First-Century Odyssey; Entrepreneurship and the Global Knowledge-Based Economy; Critique of Entrepreneurship; The Narrative; References; Chapter-5; Neoliberalism and the Production of Enemies: The Commercial Logic of Yahoo! News; Theories of Media and News Production; Yahoo! News and Internet Advertising
Selling ProductsSelling Partisanship; Internet News and Commercialized Media; Conclusion; References; Chapter-6; Slicing Up Societies: Commercial Media and the Destruction of Social Environments; The Political Economy of Violent Media Content; Commercial Media and Symbolic Violence; References; Chapter-7; Neoliberalism and the Transformation of Work; Progressivism and the Roaring Twenties; Keynesianism, the Welfare State, and the "Golden Age of Controlled Capitalism" (1940s-1970s); Neoliberalism and the Business Rebellion
1980s-2010s: Reaganism, NAFTA and Welfare Reform, and Corporate/Business HegemonyNeoliberalism and the Normalization of Violence Against Working People; Wage Stagnation, Unaffordability, and Job/Economic Insecurity: The Rise of the Precariat; Attack on Labor Unions: Making Workers Defenseless Against Employers; Globalization, Automation, and Disposability; Job Loss and Subjective Well-Being; The Rise of the Neoliberal Penal State; Conclusion: Challenging Neoliberal Violence; References; Chapter-8
Globalization, Neoliberalism, and the Spread of Economic Violence: The Framework of Civilizational AnalysisNeoliberal Economics: The Great Achievement?; Globalization and Neoliberalism: The Perspective of Civilizations; Globalization, Democracy, and Technical Expertise; Critique of Globalization and the "Founding" of Social Order; Postscript; Suggested Readings ; Chapter-9; Economics, the Network Society, and the Ontology of Violence; The Network Society and Global Capitalism; The Centered Ontology of the Network Society; Network Ontology and Market Logic; The Dissolution of the Social Bond
The Symbolic Violence of the Network
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
This compelling volume analyzes the wide-scale societal impact of neoliberal economic policy on contemporary life and behavior. Synthesizing perspectives from politics and economics with insights from psychology and linguistics, it argues that market-driven public institutions promote antisocial thinking, discourage critical reflection, and inure individuals to inequity and cruelty. Chapters cite the ubiquity of violence in modern society, from the marketing of the military to impersonal mass upheavals in the job market, as devaluing human worth and thus self-worth. But the editors also assert that these currents are not terminal, and the book concludes by identifying conditions potentially leading to a more civil and egalitarian future. Included in the coverage: The language of current economics: social theory, the market, and the disappearance of relationships. Neoliberalism and education: the disfiguration of students. Slicing up societies: commercial media and the destruction of social environments. Neoliberalism and the transformation of work. Economics, the network society, and the ontology of violence. A new economic order without violence. Given the centrality of economic events on the global stage, Neoliberalism, Economic Radicalism, and the Normalization of Violence stands out as both a springboard for discussion and a call to action, to be read by political and cultural economists, political scientists, and sociologists.
International economics.
Political economy.
Economic policy.
Sociology, general.
International Economics.
International Political Economy.
Economic Policy.