Disorienting Neoliberalism

Global Justice and the Outer Limit of Freedom

Benjamin L. McKean (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

310 Seiten

2020
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-008780-7 (ISBN)

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In the world neoliberalism has made, the pervasiveness of injustice and the scale of inequality can be so overwhelming that meaningful resistance seems impossible. Disorienting Neoliberalism argues that combatting the injustices of today's global economy begins with reorienting our way of seeing so that we can act more effectively. Within political theory, standard approaches to global justice envision ideal institutions, but provide little guidance for people responding to today's most urgent problems. Meanwhile, empirical and historical research explains how neoliberalism achieved political and intellectual hegemony, but not how we can imagine its replacement.

Disorienting Neoliberalism argues that people can and should become disposed to solidarity with each other once they see global injustices as a limit on their own freedom. Benjamin L. McKean reorients us by taking us inside the global supply chains that assemble clothes, electronics, and other goods, revealing the tension between neoliberal theories of freedom and the hierarchical, coercive reality of their operations. In this new approach to global justice, he explains how neoliberal institutions and ideas constrain the freedom of people throughout the supply chain from worker to consumer. Rather than a linked set of private market exchanges, supply chains are political entities that seek to govern the rest of us. Where neoliberal institutions train us to see each other as competitors, McKean provides a new orientation to the global economy in which we can see each other as partners in resisting a shared obstacle to freedom — and thus be called to collective action.

Drawing from a wide range of thinkers, from Hegel and John Rawls to W. E. B. Du Bois and Iris Marion Young, Disorienting Neoliberalism shows how political action today can be meaningful and promote justice, moving beyond the pity and resentment global inequality often provokes to a new politics of solidarity.

Benjamin L. McKean is Associate Professor of Political Science at The Ohio State University. He is a political theorist whose research concerns global justice, populism, and the relationship between theory and practice. His work has been published in academic journals including American Political Science Review and Political Theory as well as in popular media including The Washington Post and Jacobin.

Introduction: Injustice in a Disorienting World
Chapter 1: Neoliberal Theory as a Source of Orientation
Chapter 2: Seeling (Like) Supply Chain Managers
Chapter 3: The Outer Limit of Freedom
Chapter 4: Ugly Progress and Unhopeful Hope
Chapter 5: The Significance of Solidarity
Chapter 6: Why Sovereignty Is Not the Solution
Conclusion: Freedom and Resentment Amid Neoliberalism
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	12.10.2020
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	236 x 157 mm
Gewicht	590 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	0-19-008780-3 / 0190087803
ISBN-13	978-0-19-008780-7 / 9780190087807
Zustand	Neuware