Neoliberalism Reloaded: Authoritarian Governmentality and the Rise of the Radical Right

Matías Saidel

Published by De Gruyter 2023

Neoliberalism Reloaded

Authoritarian Governmentality and the Rise of the Radical Right

Matías Saidel

Volume 13 in the series De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110723939

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Neoliberalism Reloaded: Authoritarian Governmentality and the Rise of the Radical Right analyzes the violent enforcement of neoliberal governmentality and its relationship to the emergence of a new political and cultural Right that combines political authoritarianism, ethnocentric nationalism, racism, misogyny, and antifeminism with neoliberal economic principles. Many critical thinkers have defined this post-2008 crisis phase as a fascist moment of neoliberalism since far-Right movements and parties are not only enhancing their political representation but also setting the agenda of today’s politics. However, such a crucial political moment needs more precise analytical tools.

In this framework, Neoliberalism Reloaded: Authoritarian Governmentality and the Rise of the Radical Right seeks to understand the emergence of the New Right and punitive neoliberalism not only as a reaction to a crisis of accumulation but also as an outcome of neoliberal reason and the historical neoliberal alliance with conservative and reactionary political forces. Therefore, far from thinking this moment as exceptional, this book seeks the roots of today’s punitive neoliberalism in its theoretical framework and in the violence inherent to neoliberal capitalism towards those racialized, colonized, genderized and precarized populations that cannot adjust to the norm of competitiveness. Thus, Neoliberalism Reloaded seeks to contribute to understanding the challenges of our present as a necessary step to imagine alternative futures.　　

Based on thorough research but written in an accessible style
Offers cutting-edge research in critical theory, combining traditions and disciplines in an original way
Explores new forms of popular resistance, with real-world examples

Author / Editor information

Matías Saidel has obtained his PhD in Theoretical and Political Philosophy (2011) with a thesis on the ontological and impolitical perspectives on the common developed by Jean-Luc Nancy, Giorgio Agamben and Roberto Esposito. Currently he works as Researcher at the Argentinean National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) and as Professor of Political Philosophy and Researcher at the Faculty of Social Work of the National University of Entre Ríos, Argentina. He has also taught postgraduate seminars on the Common and on Neoliberal Capitalism at the National University of Rosario, National University of Comahue and National University of Entre Ríos (Argentina) and was a visiting scholar at Cornell University (2010) and Madrid Complutense University (2018). He has published more than 30 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on the common(s), neoliberalism and biopolitics. He has also edited a book of interviews with the Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito.

Reviews

“A remarkable examination of the most significant criticisms of neoliberalism; a precise and accurate reading of the evolution and/or involution of neoliberal policies; finally, a dynamic and non-static history of the latter that concludes with an original thesis: neoliberalism reloaded.”
Maurizio Lazzarato, author of The Intolerable Present: The Urgency of Revolution, Capital Hates Everyone: Fascism or Revolution and The Making of the Indebted Man: An Essay on the Neoliberal Condition

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Neoliberal reason Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	16
2 The neoliberal era and the crisis of liberal democracy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
3 The new neoliberalism: neoliberal fascism or neoliberalism reloaded? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
4 Authoritarian neoliberalism and the rise of the new radical right Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
5 Towards a genealogy of contemporary right-wing populism. An approach to the national-(neo)liberal trend in Europe and the United States Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
6 Anti-communism without communism? The construction of feminism as a strategic enemy of the new radical right and the dilemma of social reproduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
7 Rethinking the common(s) in neoliberal capitalism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
8 Epilogue: Neoliberalism reloaded Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics in the field of political science, critical theory, sociology and political theory; journalists.
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 199
Keywords: Punitive Neoliberalism; Neofascism; Neoliberal Governmentality; Dispossession; Right-wing Populism

eBook

Published: January 30, 2023
ISBN: 9783110723939

Hardcover

Published: January 30, 2023
ISBN: 9783110723267