Introduction: Neoliberalism- Descanting the Insalubrious / 1. Expansions, Variegations and Formations / 2. Between Hegemony and Governmentality / 3. Anxious Geopolitics / 4. Delusion, Disillusion and Denial / 5. Of Violence and Victims / 6. Zombie Apocalypse / Conclusion: From Enslavement to Obliteration / Bibliography / Index
Simon Springer is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Victoria, Canada.
The Discourse of Neoliberalism: An Anatomy of a Powerful Idea by
Simon Springer is a welcome addition to the scholarly body of
literature that now traces the intellectual development of an idea
and policy platform from the viewpoint of geography. It is a
passionate account that works through an approach taking the best
of Marx and Foucault to understand the emergence of the most
powerful and enduring discourse of the postwar era. Highly
recommended.
*Michael A. Peters, Professor, University of Waikato, New
Zealand*
Simon Springer applies his analysis of neoliberalism as a highly
fruitful amalgamation of critical political economy and
poststructuralist approaches. He shows how neoliberalism is about a
productive and destructive complex of power that is enacted through
manifold dimensions. For emancipatory social forces, the "Discourse
of Neoliberalism" is important because it helps to formulate ways
out of the crisis of capitalism and beyond an increasingly
authoritarian neoliberalism. Respective tales and strategies must
always start with a clear understanding of what exists and its
contradictory dynamics. As the search for alternatives intensifies,
this book is a must read.
*Ulrich Brand, Professor of International Politics, University of
Vienna*
In this significant work of social and political theory, Simon
Springer once again sets the standard for contemporary geographical
thought. For anyone who has read Springer's work before then you
know what to expect; for those who haven't, then you're in for a
treat. Insight, rigour, thoughtfulness, wisdom, and, most
important, passion, all too often missing from academic writing;
Springer's new book, The Discourse of Neoliberalism, has got it
all, and in abundance. In thinking through neoliberalism as a
discourse, Springer provides the surgical tools to not only dissect
neoliberalism as a violent and degrading project, but also excise
its intellectual threads when and where we find them woven
throughout our everyday political rationalities.
*Kean Birch, Associate Professor, York University, Canada*
In The Discourse of Neoliberalism, Simon Springer wields a wrecking
ball through the hollow edifice of the neoliberal project. Behind
its monolithic facade, neoliberalism is revealed as a miserable
rag-bag of perniciously performative discourses that persist
despite their ideological putrefaction. Yet beneath the undead hand
of the market and the hidden fist of the state, Springer unearths a
deeper reality of cooperation, voluntary association, and mutual
aid.
*Japhy Wilson, University of Manchester, author of Jeffrey Sachs:
The Strange Case of Dr Shock and Mr Aid*
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