Social Resilience in the Neoliberal Era
Author | : Peter A. Hall |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2013-04-22 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781107034976 |
ISBN-13 | : 1107034973 |
Rating | : 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: What is the impact of three decades of neoliberal narratives and policies on communities and individual lives? What are the sources of social resilience? This book offers a sweeping assessment of the effects of neoliberalism, the dominant feature of our times. It analyzes the ideology in unusually wide-ranging terms as a movement that not only opened markets but also introduced new logics into social life, integrating macro-level analyses of the ways in which neoliberal narratives made their way into international policy regimes with micro-level analyses of the ways in which individuals responded to the challenges of the neoliberal era. The product of ten years of collaboration among a distinguished group of scholars, it integrates institutional and cultural analysis in new ways to understand neoliberalism as a syncretic social process and to explore the sources of social resilience across communities in the developed and developing worlds.