Thinking Beyond Neoliberalism: Alternative Societies, Transition, and Resistance

Series Editor’s Foreword
Foreword
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Thinking Beyond Neoliberalism: Theorising the Future in the Present
Naming the Beast: Defining ‘Neoliberalism’
Neoliberal Economics
Neoliberal Subjecthood
Neoliberal Governmentality
Neoliberal Ideology
Neoliberal (Geo-)Politics
Actually Existing Neoliberalism
Theorising Alternative Societies, Transition, and Resistance
Conclusion
References
The Future in the Present
Mapping Alternative Economies
Communism
Attempts at Communism
Assessing State Socialism
Co-Operative Ownership
Participatory Economics and Alternative Work
Freeganism and the Alternative Economy
Community Wealth Building and the Democratic Economy
From an Extractive to a Circulatory Economy
Institutional Change and Socialism
Localism and Scaling Up
National and Public Ownership
Alternatives and Their Critics
References
Co-operatives and Socialism: The Promises and Contradictions of a System of Worker Ownership
Introduction
What Makes a Co-operative Socialist?
Alienation, Management, and Work in Co-operatives
Division of Labour
Capitalist Social Relations
Market Relations
The Role of Co-operatives in Capitalism
Co-operatives and Transformation
Conclusion: What Is to Be Done?
References
Why the Post-Covid World needs a Universal Basic Income
The Adaptability of Neoliberal Politics
The Need for a Basic Income
Could Basic Income Really Give Everyone a Stake in Society?
Conclusion
References
Theorising the Possible
Regaining the Future: Temporality and Left Politics
Chronos and Kairos
Chronological Dominance
Crises as Extended Chronological Moments
The Formal and Real Subsumption of Social Life
Reclaiming the Future
Conclusion
References
There is no Place like Hope: Ernst Bloch’s Utopian Consciousness
Utopias in Social and Political Theory
Neoliberalism and Utopia
Striving, Longing, Hoping
Bloch’s Account of ‘Noch-Nicht’
Bloch and Neoliberalism
Conclusion
References
Connection Lost: Fully Automated Luxury Communism, Critical Theory and Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Introduction
Manufacturing Tomorrow: Establishing F.A.L.C.
Finding the Space for Change and Unpacking F.A.L.C.’s Issues
The Opportunity for Synthesis
Conclusion
References
The Pathology of Normalcy and Consensual Validation: Thinking Beyond Neoliberalism with Erich Fromm
A Background on Fromm
Neoclassical Economics vs. Normative Humanism
How is This Consensually Validated?
Covid-19 in the Time of Neoliberal Social Pathology
What Can Be Done?
References
Institutional Transition and Resistance
Employability as Exploitability: A Marxist Critical Pedagogy
The Employability Agenda and the Neoliberal University
Policy Making in HE and Employability Metrics
A Growing Academic Field
Pedagogy for Exploitability, or the Counter-Conduct of Employability
Explaining the Rise of the Employability Agenda
A Counter-Conduct Pedagogy for Exploitability: How to Know When to Quit a Job
Concluding Thoughts
Bibliography
Neoliberal Creep and Reach: Education Services Within the UK
Introduction
Beyond the Second Post-War Settlement
France
Germany
United Kingdom
The Blair-Brown Governments
Coalition and Conservatives from 2010
The Impact of Neoliberalism on Education Services in England
The Two Faces of English Education
Golden Age Drive to Comprehensive Education
The Neoliberal and Neoconservative March on Education
New Labour: New Neoliberalism
Post-16 Education and the Workforce
Neoliberal War Against Trade Union Power
Small Change: Small Challenge
Grass-Roots Campaigns
There is Nothing like a Star
Conclusion
Annex
References
Conclusion
Conclusion: Observations from the Precipice
Actual Alternatives
Theorising Postneoliberal Transition
Institutional Resistance and Counter-Conduct
Conclusion
References
Index