ABSTRACT
Neoliberalism is easily one of the most powerful discourses toemerge within the social sciences in the last two decades, and the number of scholars who write about this dynamic and unfolding process of socio-spatial transformation is astonishing. Even more surprising though is that there has, until now, not been an attempt to provide a wide-ranging volume that engages with the multiple registers in which neoliberalism has evolved.
The Routledge Handbook of Neoliberalism seeks to offer a comprehensive overview of the phenomenon of neoliberalism by examining the range of ways that it has been theorized, promoted, critiqued, and put into practice in a variety of geographical locations and institutional frameworks. With contributions from over 50 leading
authors working at institutions around the world the volumes seven sections will offer a systematic overview of neoliberalism’s origins, political implications, social tensions, spaces, natures and environments, and aftermaths in addressing ongoing and emerging debates.
The volume aims to provide the first comprehensive overview of the field and to advance the established and emergent debates in a field that has grown exponentially over the past two decades, coinciding with the meteoric rise of neoliberalism as a hegemonic ideology, state form, policy and program, and governmentality. It includes a substantive introductory chapter and will serve as an invaluable resource for undergraduates, graduate students, and professional scholars alike.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|90 pages
Origins
part II|102 pages
Political implications
part III|87 pages
Social tensions
chapter 20|15 pages
Health and the embodiment of neoliberalism
chapter 24|10 pages
Retooling social reproduction for neoliberal times
part IV|88 pages
Knowledge productions
chapter 25|11 pages
Education, neoliberalism, and human capital
chapter 27|11 pages
Financial economics and business schools
chapter 31|9 pages
Neoliberalism as austerity
part V|85 pages
Spaces
chapter 34|12 pages
Neoliberalism and rural change
chapter 36|11 pages
Peripheries of neoliberalism
chapter 38|9 pages
In the spirit of whiteness
part VI|81 pages
Natures and environments
chapter 45|11 pages
Making bodily commodities
part VII|75 pages
Aftermaths