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Assembling Neoliberalism

Expertise, Practices, Subjects

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Editors:
  1. Vaughan Higgins

    1. School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Albury, NSW, Australia

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  2. Wendy Larner

    1. Office of the Provost, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

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  • Examines how neoliberalism is constructed and defined across various disciplines
  • Explores how neoliberalism contains diverse and even incongruous elements
  • Utilizes 'assemblage thinking' to build on existing theories

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction: Assembling Neoliberalism

    • Vaughan Higgins, Wendy Larner
    Pages 1-19

  4. Practices

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107
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    2. Assembling Citizenship in Austere Times

      • Samuel Kirwan, Morag McDermont, John Clarke
      Pages 109-129

    3. (Re)assembling Neoliberal Logics in the Service of Climate Justice: Fuzziness and Perverse Consequences in the Fossil Fuel Divestment Assemblage

      • Robyn Mayes, Carol Richards, Michael Woods
      Pages 131-149

    4. The Mouse That Died: Stabilizing Economic Practices in Free Trade Space

      • Nick Lewis, Richard Le Heron, Hugh Campbell
      Pages 151-170

    5. Mapping Neoliberalism: Animal Health and the Spatial Practices of Disease Management

      • Gareth Enticott, Vaughan Higgins
      Pages 171-193

    6. Mapping Happiness, Managing Urban Emotions

      • Jessica Pykett, John Cromby
      Pages 195-216

  5. Subjects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217
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    2. Sharing Subjects and Legality: Ambiguities in Moving Beyond Neoliberalism

      • Bronwen Morgan, Declan Kuch
      Pages 219-241

    3. “Doing Good”: Affect, Neoliberalism, and Responsibilization Among Volunteers in China and the United States

      • Lisa M. Hoffman, Hope Reidun St. John
      Pages 243-262

    4. The Resilient Subject

      • Lisa J. Hill, Wendy Larner
      Pages 263-281

    5. Economic, Experiments, Evidence: Poor Behavior and the Development of Market Subjects

      • Christian Berndt, Marc Boeckler
      Pages 283-302

  6. Conclusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 303-303
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    2. Conclusion: Awkward Assemblages

      • Wendy Larner, Vaughan Higgins
      Pages 305-312
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About this book

This book examines how neoliberalism is constituted from multiple, diverse elements; how these elements are brought together and made to cohere; and the challenges, contestations, and consequences of such. Informed by assemblage thinking, the collection builds on research that emphasizes the forms of experimentation, adaptation, and mutation through which neoliberalism is enacted and rendered workable across different spaces. Contributors provide original case studies on topics such as democratic administration, carbon markets, the sharing economy, behavioral economics, disease management, free trade, and youth volunteering.  They interrogate the forms of expertise through which neoliberalism is rendered knowable; the diverse socio-technical practices that make neoliberalism governable; and the practices, effects, and tensions involved in the assembling of neoliberal subjects.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Albury, NSW, Australia

    Vaughan Higgins

  • Office of the Provost, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

    Wendy Larner

About the editors

Vaughan Higgins is Associate Professor of Sociology at Charles Sturt University, Australia. His research encompasses the sociology of science and technology, and the sociology of agriculture and food. He is co-editor of Calculating the Social: Standards and the Reconfiguration of Governing with Wendy Larner.

Wendy Larner is Provost at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.  Her research sits in the interdisciplinary fields of globalization, governance, and gender. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and the Academy of Social Sciences, UK.    ​

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Assembling Neoliberalism

  • Book Subtitle: Expertise, Practices, Subjects

  • Editors: Vaughan Higgins, Wendy Larner

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58204-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-58203-4Published: 07 April 2017

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-58204-1Published: 06 April 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 331

  • Number of Illustrations: 7 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Political Sociology, Social Theory, Cultural Studies

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