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The struggle against neoliberalism

Terry Flew (QUT): Six Theories of Neoliberalism. Sean Phelan (Massey): Critiquing "Neoliberalism": Three Interrogations and a Defense. Peter Kriesler and John Nevile (UNSW): The Collapse of Neoliberal Capitalism: Causes and Cures: A Review Article. Jedediah S. Purdy (Duke): Neoliberal Constitutionalism. Robin James (UNC): Neoliberal Noise: Attali, Foucault and the Biopolitics of Uncool. Gordon Hull (UNC): Biopolitics Is Not (Primarily) About Life: On Biopolitics, Neoliberalism and Families. Marie-Eve Sylvestre (Ottawa): Narratives of Punishment: Neoliberalism, Class Interests and the Politics of Social Exclusion. Andrew Williams (Exeter): Neoliberalism, Big Society and Progressive Localism. From Soundings, Beatrix Campbell on the need for a gender revolution: Within neoliberalism sexism constantly finds new cultures and contexts, while violence and sexual aggression continue to attract impunity; class and generation under neoliberalism: Ben Little on how the problems of young people are a direct result of the emerging new class settlement; and after Thatcher: Sheila Rowbotham, Lynne Segal, Hilary Wainwright, Pragna Patel on still trying to piece it all together. From carbon democracy to the right to the city: Koenraad Bogaert on the struggle against neoliberalism. Chris Taylor on plantation neoliberalism: Is an intense fixation on present conditions of labor simply the best means of making slavery disappear? Neoliberalism as obsessional neurosis: Japhy Wilson on how neoliberalism is not a monolithic shock doctrine — it is an anxious form of crisis management, which evolves through its failed attempts to conceal a repressed truth. The monster of governmentality: Bruce Robbins reviews The New Way of the World: On Neoliberal Society by Christian Laval and Pierre Dardot.