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The Neoliberal Subject - Resilience, Adaptation and Vulnerability (Hardcover)
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The Neoliberal Subject - Resilience, Adaptation and Vulnerability (Hardcover)
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Political practices, agencies and institutions around the world
promote the need for humans, individually and collectively, to
develop capacities of resilience. We must accept and adapt to the
'realities' of an endemic condition of global insecurity and to the
practice of so-called sustainable development. But in spite of
claims that resilience make us more adept and capable, does the
discourse of resilience undermine our ability to make our own
decisions as to how we wish to live? This book draws out the
theoretical assumptions behind the drive for resilience and its
implications for issues of political subjectivity. It establishes a
critical framework from which discourses of resilience can be
understood and challenged in the fields of governance, security,
development, and in political theory itself. Each part of the book
includes a chapter by David Chandler and another by Julian Reid
that build a passionate and provocative dialogue, individually
distinct and offering contrasting perspectives on core issues. It
concludes with an insightful interview with Gideon Baker. In place
of resilience, the book argues that we need to revalorize an idea
of the human subject as capable of acting on and transforming the
world, rather than being cast in a permanent condition of
enslavement to it.
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