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Interrogating the Neoliberal Lifecycle

The Limits of Success

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Editors:
  1. Beverley Clack

    1. Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK

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  2. Michele Paule

    1. Oxford Brookes University, Harcourt Hill Campus, Oxford, UK

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  • The contributors offer an exciting and timely interdisciplinary engagement with this most hotly contested of political theories
  • Examines lived experiences under neoliberal policy regimes rather than local and global (re) productions of culture
  • Offers reflections on every stage of the life cycle

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Welcome to the Neoliberal Life Cycle!

    • Beverley Clack, Michele Paule
    Pages 1-16

  4. The University Under Neoliberalism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
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    2. Paying for Success “Outside Your World”: Antagonising Neoliberal Higher Education

      • Louise Livesey
      Pages 97-126

    3. Universities: The Neoliberal Agenda

      • Bob Brecher
      Pages 127-142

  6. Death and Dying

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 213-213
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    2. Old Age and the Neoliberal Life Course

      • Susan Pickard
      Pages 215-234

    3. Death and Dying in “Third Way” Death Manuals: Shaping Life and Death After Neoliberalism

      • Beverley Clack
      Pages 235-252

  7. Afterword

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 253-253
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    2. Afterword: Advice for a Life Beyond Neoliberalism?

      • Beverley Clack, Michele Paule
      Pages 255-262

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 263-268
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About this book

In this timely collection, contributors from a number of disciplines discuss neoliberal visions of success, and the subsequent effects they have on the construction of the lifecycle. Frequently mentioned in popular political discourse, the notion of neoliberalism is often deployed as shorthand for the consensus that austerity is necessary and the hard-working individual can survive it. This volume unpicks and interrogates the term by engaging with the interface between the political ubiquity of neoliberal forms and its lived experience in neoliberal societies, cutting across a multiplicity of factors including gender, age, and access to education. Impressive in its wide scope and analysis, Interrogating the Neoliberal Lifecycle presents an informed discussion not only of the limits of the neoliberal paradigm but also of possible alternatives. 

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“This edited volume makes for an important contribution in the fields of gerontology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology, the main focus of this volume was the first world. … this volume would benefit both academics as well as policymakers from a range of disciplines as it provides various alternative perspectives to the ‘good and successful life’ … .” (Jagriti Gangopadhyay, Anthropology & Aging, Vol. 42 (1), 2021)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK

    Beverley Clack

  • Oxford Brookes University, Harcourt Hill Campus, Oxford, UK

    Michele Paule

About the editors

Beverley Clack is Professor of Philosophy of Religion at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Her research applies feminist ideas to the philosophy of religion, and considering the uses of politics and psychoanalysis for a contemporary philosophy.


Michele Paule is Senior Lecturer in Culture, Media and Education at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Her research explores discourses of gender and youth in educational and media contexts, particularly issues relating to girlhood and power. 



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Interrogating the Neoliberal Lifecycle

  • Book Subtitle: The Limits of Success

  • Editors: Beverley Clack, Michele Paule

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00770-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

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

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-00769-0Published: 24 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-00770-6Published: 14 December 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 268

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Political Sociology, Cultural Studies, Aging, Social Policy

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