Thinking Beyond Neoliberalism: Alternative Societies, Transition, and Resistance

ISBN-13: 9783030826680 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 284 str.

Neal Harris; Onur Acaroglu

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Foreword

Introduction: Transition, Transformation, Resistance: Theorising the Future by co-editor Neal Harris

Part 1: The Future Beckons: Alternative Visions

Chapter One: ‘Alternative Economies’, Luke Martell

Chapter Two: ‘Worker Ownership, Self-Management, and the Promise of a Co-operative Economy’, Robin Jervis

Chapter Three: ‘Fully Automated Luxury... What?’ Neal Harris

Part 2: The Journey: Theorising Transition and Resistance

Chapter Four: Understanding Intercultural Experience: Super-Diversity, Social Learning and Cultural Trends Toward Transition, Estevao Bosco

Chapter Five: Regaining the Future: The Temporal Complexity of Transitional Politics, Onur Acaroglu

Chapter Six: Socialist transition through a Sacred Entanglement with the Earth: Transforming States of Exception into Revolutionary Fervour, Arnab Chakraborty

Part 3: Classes, Collectives, Groupings: Transition and Subjectivity

Chapter Seven: ‘The masses will rise again’: Rosa Luxemburg, the concept of the masses and the question of non-revolutionary working class, Dana Mills

Chapter Eight: Glimpsing the future in neoliberal subjectivities:‘Self-optimisation’ as a resource for transition, Will Leggett

Chapter Nine: Acephalic Resistance: Evaluating the Contemporaneity of ‘New’ Social Movements through the case of ‘the Yellow Vests’, Denis Chevalier-Bousseau

Part 4:  Transition through the Institutions

Chapter Ten: Neoliberalism’s Material and Ideological Profit from Incarceration: A Call for Abolition, Anna Wimbledon

Chapter Eleven: Desire beyond Market Forces: Queerness in India after the removal of Article 377, Anup Sharma 

Chapter Twelve: Films as Cognitive Machines: A Discussion through the Apparatus Theory, Ufuk Gürbüzdal

Chapter Thirteen: Hippocrates Pronounced Dead: Breaking Down Neoliberal Complacency in Healthcare, Ozan Siso 

Conclusion by co-editor Onur Acaroglu

O autorze

Neal Harris is a Lecturer in Sociology at Oxford Brookes University, UK.

Onur Acaroğlu is an Instructor at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, and a co-founder of the Free University of London (FUL), UK.

Blurb

“The volume offers an interesting range of perspectives on future possibilities beyond the present and the aftermath of neoliberalism. It is of interest to students, academics, and activists concerned with radical social and political transformation in contemporary societies.”

–Gerard Delanty, Professor of Sociology and Professor of Social and Political Thought, University of Sussex, UK

“This collection convenes contributions aiming to analyse, fight, and overcome the most threatening danger for humankind and democracy today: neoliberalism. The contributors make clear that there are arenas of struggle and resistance, spaces of hope, and actors invested in an emancipatory trajectory against the neoliberal processes of marketisation and commodification that leave the world in the hands of racketeers who are responsible for the unimaginable wealth of the few, and the extreme poverty of the many.”

–Heinz Sünker, Rudolf-Carnap-Senior-Research-Professor, Bergische Universität of Wuppertal, Germany

“Thinking Beyond Neoliberalism is an excellent volume that moves us beyond the dogmatic confines of neoliberalism to imagine possibilities for transition. The interdisciplinary tone and the fearless attempt to engage with the big questions of our time makes this book essential reading for anyone interested in building a better world.”

–Susanne Soederberg, Professor of Global Development Studies, Queen’s University, Canada

This book brings together leading academics and activists to address the possibilities for qualitative social change beyond neoliberalism, providing introductory essays on alternative societies, transition, and resistance. Bringing together discussions on universal basic income, actually existing communism, parecon, circular economies, workers co-operatives, ‘fully automated luxury communism,' trade unionism, and party politics, the volume provides one of the first scholarly interventions to systematically evaluate possibilities for transition and resistance across theoretical, political, and disciplinary traditions.

Neal Harris is a Lecturer in Sociology at Oxford Brookes University, UK.

Onur Acaroğlu is an Instructor at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, and a co-founder of the Free University of London (FUL), UK.