{"id":4185,"date":"2020-11-11T12:21:51","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T12:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onlineclassesguru.com\/?p=4185"},"modified":"2020-11-11T12:21:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T12:21:51","slug":"the-uses-of-neoliberalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineclassesguru.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/11\/the-uses-of-neoliberalism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Uses of Neoliberalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p>Abstract: The term \u0093neoliberalism\u0094 has come to be used in a wide variety of partly overlapping and partly contradictory ways. This essay seeks to clarify some of the analytical and political work that the term does in its different usages. It then goes on to suggest that making an analytical distinction between neoliberal \u0093arts of government\u0094 and the class-based ideological \u0093project\u0094 of neoliberalism can allow us to identify some surprising (and perhaps hopeful) new forms of politics that illustrate how fundamentally polyvalent neoliberal mechanisms of government can be. A range of empirical examples are discussed, mostly coming from my recent work on social policy and anti-poverty politics in southern Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Keywords: neoliberalism, governmentality, South Africa, basic income, poverty<\/p>\n<p>In thinking about the rapidly expanding literature on neoliberalism, I am struck by how much of the critical scholarship on topic arrives in the end at the very same conclusion\u0097a conclusion that might be expressed in its simplest form as: \u0093neoliberalism is bad for poor and working people, therefore we must oppose it.\u0094 It is not that I disagree with this conclusion. On the contrary. But I sometimes wonder why I should bother to read one after another extended scholarly analysis only to reach, again and again, such an unsurprising conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>This problem in recent progressive scholarship strikes me as related to a parallel problem in progressive politics more broadly. For over the last couple of decades, what we call \u0093the Left\u0094 has come to be organized, in large part, around a project of resisting and refusing harmful new developments in the world. This is understandable, since so many new developments have indeed been highly objectionable. But it has left us with a politics largely defined by negation and disdain, and centered on what I will call \u0093the antis.\u0094 Anti-globalization, anti- neoliberalism, anti-privatization, anti-imperialism, anti-Bush, perhaps even anti-capitalism\u0097but always \u0093anti\u0094, not \u0093pro\u0094. This is good enough, perhaps, if one\u0092s political goal is simply to denounce \u0093the system\u0094 and to decry its current tendencies. And, indeed, some seem satisfied with such a politics. In my own disciplines of anthropology and African Studies, for instance, studies of state and development tend, with depressing predictability, to conclude (in tones of righteous indignation) that the rich are benefiting and the poor are getting screwed. The powerless, it seems, are getting the short end of the stick. This is not exactly a<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/onlineclassesguru.com\/orders\/ordernow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTyj99p60XCLyLk1htB7-1neRt8-2QdnenNlQ&usqp=CAU\"target=\"_http:\/\/onlineclassesguru.com\/orders\/ordernow\"\/><\/center><p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: The term \u0093neoliberalism\u0094 has come to be used in a wide variety of partly overlapping and partly contradictory ways. This essay seeks to clarify some of the analytical and political work that the term does in its different usages. 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