Overview
Neoliberal Techniques of Social Suffering: Political Resistance and Critical Theory from Latin America and Spain is the result of the critical and political commitment of various Latin American and Spanish philosophers who share a critical approach to the global “stealth revolution” in recent decades, where neoliberalism has forced the well-being and reproduction of life to adapt to a system devastating for both humans and non-humans. The authors voice the shared concern of contemporary Spanish and Latin American societies to build new conceptions of the public and the common through mobilizing affects usually disavowed in political theory. If, in Ancient Greece, the idea of strengthening the most vulnerable and weakest was deplored as the art of sophists, this collection edited by Laura Quintana and Nuria Sánchez Madrid explores the other side of our social world to revive grassroots strategies of resistance and emancipation, which are able to bring about new distributions of power, welfare, and discursive legitimation and to extend our goal of creating a radically democratic world.
Full Product Details
Author: Laura Quintana ,
Nuria Sánchez Madrid ,
María Inés Fernández Álvarez ,
Pablo López Álvarez
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint: Lexington Books
Dimensions:
Width: 15.90cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 23.80cm
Weight: 0.463kg
ISBN: 9781666915075
ISBN 10: 1666915076
Pages: 190
Publication Date: 15 August 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
The volume edited by Laura Quintana and Nuria Sánchez Madrid reads like a guide into our common malaise: everyone suffers from being an individual in neoliberalism. The suffering is self-imposed, it entered deep in our psyches, it is socially unmediated - because society, proverbially, does not exist. Our failures, as well as our resistances are a matter of our privatized self-management. Under neoliberalism, we are obligated to freedom without a social reality. This books seeks to show how and why this happened. It is a brilliant description of the neoliberal mind, culture of damage, homo economicus pedagogy fuelling global conservative mobilizations. Quintana and Sánchez Madrid gathered Latin American and Spanish scholars whose southern voices provide a different perspective - alarming and at the same time necessary, functioning almost like a wake-up call.--Adriana Zaharijevic, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade
Much has been written about neoliberal political ideologies and economic policies over the past half century. At its core, neoliberalism advocates for limited government intervention in the economy and emphasizes the importance of free markets, deregulation, privatization, and individualism. Proponents maintain that these policies promote economic efficiency and individual freedom, but critics assert that they have pronounced detrimental effects on social equity, public services, and the environment. This edited volume delves into what could be understood as the hidden injuries of neoliberalism. The eight authors examine the consequences of neoliberal policies. They shed light on how a neoliberal agenda reshaped societies, caused suffering, and privileged individualism at the expense of collective well-being. The authors explore grassroots strategies of resistance and emancipation. In doing so, they argue for the need to rethink the public and common good and harness the often overlooked emotional and affective dimensions of political theory. The result is a thought-provoking examination of the profound impact of neoliberalism on individuals, societies, and the common good. Recommended. Graduate students and faculty.
The volume edited by Laura Quintana and Nuria Sánchez Madrid reads like a guide into our common malaise: everyone suffers from being an individual in neoliberalism. The suffering is self-imposed, it entered deep in our psyches, it is socially unmediated - because society, proverbially, does not exist. Our failures, as well as our resistances are a matter of our privatized self-management. Under neoliberalism, we are obligated to freedom without a social reality. This books seeks to show how and why this happened. It is a brilliant description of the neoliberal mind, culture of damage, homo economicus pedagogy fuelling global conservative mobilizations. Quintana and Sánchez Madrid gathered Latin American and Spanish scholars whose southern voices provide a different perspective - alarming and at the same time necessary, functioning almost like a wake-up call.
""Much has been written about neoliberal political ideologies and economic policies over the past half century. At its core, neoliberalism advocates for limited government intervention in the economy and emphasizes the importance of free markets, deregulation, privatization, and individualism. Proponents maintain that these policies promote economic efficiency and individual freedom, but critics assert that they have pronounced detrimental effects on social equity, public services, and the environment. This edited volume delves into what could be understood as the hidden injuries of neoliberalism. The eight authors examine the consequences of neoliberal policies. They shed light on how a neoliberal agenda reshaped societies, caused suffering, and privileged individualism at the expense of collective well-being. The authors explore grassroots strategies of resistance and emancipation. In doing so, they argue for the need to rethink the public and common good and harness the often overlooked emotional and affective dimensions of political theory. The result is a thought-provoking examination of the profound impact of neoliberalism on individuals, societies, and the common good. Recommended. Graduate students and faculty."" --Choice Reviews ""The volume edited by Laura Quintana and Nuria Sánchez Madrid reads like a guide into our common malaise: everyone suffers from being an individual in neoliberalism. The suffering is self-imposed, it entered deep in our psyches, it is socially unmediated - because society, proverbially, does not exist. Our failures, as well as our resistances are a matter of our privatized self-management. Under neoliberalism, we are obligated to freedom without a social reality. This books seeks to show how and why this happened. It is a brilliant description of the neoliberal mind, culture of damage, homo economicus pedagogy fuelling global conservative mobilizations. Quintana and Sánchez Madrid gathered Latin American and Spanish scholars whose southern voices provide a different perspective - alarming and at the same time necessary, functioning almost like a wake-up call."" --Adriana Zaharijevic, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade Much has been written about neoliberal political ideologies and economic policies over the past half century. At its core, neoliberalism advocates for limited government intervention in the economy and emphasizes the importance of free markets, deregulation, privatization, and individualism. Proponents maintain that these policies promote economic efficiency and individual freedom, but critics assert that they have pronounced detrimental effects on social equity, public services, and the environment. This edited volume delves into what could be understood as the hidden injuries of neoliberalism. The eight authors examine the consequences of neoliberal policies. They shed light on how a neoliberal agenda reshaped societies, caused suffering, and privileged individualism at the expense of collective well-being. The authors explore grassroots strategies of resistance and emancipation. In doing so, they argue for the need to rethink the public and common good and harness the often overlooked emotional and affective dimensions of political theory. The result is a thought-provoking examination of the profound impact of neoliberalism on individuals, societies, and the common good. Recommended. Graduate students and faculty. The volume edited by Laura Quintana and Nuria Sánchez Madrid reads like a guide into our common malaise: everyone suffers from being an individual in neoliberalism. The suffering is self-imposed, it entered deep in our psyches, it is socially unmediated - because society, proverbially, does not exist. Our failures, as well as our resistances are a matter of our privatized self-management. Under neoliberalism, we are obligated to freedom without a social reality. This books seeks to show how and why this happened. It is a brilliant description of the neoliberal mind, culture of damage, homo economicus pedagogy fuelling global conservative mobilizations. Quintana and Sánchez Madrid gathered Latin American and Spanish scholars whose southern voices provide a different perspective - alarming and at the same time necessary, functioning almost like a wake-up call.
Author Information
Laura Quintana is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Universidad de Los Andes. Nuria Sánchez Madrid is associate professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University Complutense of Madrid.
