This book examines the impact of neoliberalism on society, bringing to the forefront a discussion of violence and harm, the inherent inequalities of neoliberalism and the ways in which our everyday lives in the Global North reproduce and facilitate this violence and harm. Drawing on a range of contemporary topics such as state violence, the carceral state, patriarchy, toxic masculinity, death, sports and entertainment, this book unmasks the banal forms of violence and harm that are a routine part of life that usurp, commodify and consume to reify the existing status quo of harm and inequality. It aims to defamiliarize routine forms of violence and inequality, thereby highlighting our own participation in its perpetuation, though consumerism and the consumption of neoliberal dogma. It is essential reading for students across criminology, sociology and political philosophy, particularly those engaged with crimes of the powerful, state crime and social harm.
Author(s): Victoria E. Collins, Dawn L. Rothe
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group
Year: 2020
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF
Pages: 175
Tags: Neoliberalism: Political Aspects; Violence: Political Aspects; Equality
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword
Chapter 1 An introduction to the violence of neoliberalism: Crime, harm and inequality
Crime versus harm?
Our guiding theme and structure of the book
Summary
References
Chapter 2 Neoliberalism, consumerism and the global market
The harms of neoliberal consumption
Theoretical frame
The human cost of neoliberal market consumerism
Conclusion
Note
References
Chapter 3 Self-defense or neocapitalist rhetoric?
Self-defense: the state, violence and the responsibility of the individual
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 4 The commoditized spectacle: Sports, violence and entertainment
Sports and consumption
Sport, hyper-commodification and the spectacle
Conclusion
Note
References
Chapter 5 The cycle of oppression and inequality
Theoretical framework
‘The’ refugee
‘The’ homeless
‘The’ immigrant—aka the illegal immigrant
Summary thoughts
Notes
References
Chapter 6 Neoliberalism as a tool and toolmaker in defining the value of the dead
Defining the value of life and the dead
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 7 Neoliberalism, the carceral state and violence
The carceral logics of neoliberalism through nationalism, patriotism and the military
Corporatized extension of the carceral state
Surveillance is part of the carceral logics and governmentality
Conclusion
Note
References
Chapter 8 Neoliberalism and the selling of patriarchy
The pervasiveness of the commodification and consumption of patriarchy: violence against women consumed
Conclusion
Chapter 9 The environmental death march: Destruction, greed, profit and consumption
Climate change
Trump, Republican rollbacks and priorities—symbolic or ignored responses to climate change
Damn, we can’t blame it all on them?
Conclusion
References
References
Chapter 10 The silent role of non-profit organizations in the neoliberalism trap
Non-profits: global and local carceral logics and the neoliberal trap
Conclusion
References
Chapter 11 The commodification and illusion of resistance
Resistance commodified
Conclusion
References
Chapter 12 Concluding thoughts
A way forward, backward, sideways or is there an end?
References
Index
