1. Introduction: The Multiple Janus Faces of Neoliberalism.- 2. Neoliberalism and Crisis of the Republican Pact.- 3. Neoliberalization and New Commodification Frontiers: A Global Critique of Progressive Reason.- 4. Neoliberalism in the Culture of Terror.- 5. The Thousand Faces of Neoliberalism: From Politics to Sensibilities.- 6. Neo-Liberal Effects on Time Perception: When "Time Is Money" Turns Into “Hybrid Time”.- 7. Implosion of Time: Body, Emotions and Terror in the Neoliberal Civilization in Chile.- 8. The Neoliberal Tourism System: Strategies of Production and Distribution of Travel.- 9. Neoliberalism, Outsourcing and Domination.- 10. Facing The Self-Government Test: Italian Youth and the Avatars of Neoliberalism.- 11. Capitalism, Hacking, and Digital Media.

This volume brings together well-versed authors from four continents to critically discuss the roots of neoliberalism and how academics use the word today. Neoliberalism has recently recycled and mutated towards new forms of radicalization where fear plays a leading role legitimating policies, which would otherwise be overtly neglected by citizens. The authors ignite a new discussion within social sciences, combining the advances of sociology, history, anthropology, communication and the theory of mobilities to understand the different faces and guises of neoliberalism.  Adrian Scribano is Director of the Centre for Sociological Research and Studies (CIES) and Principal Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research of Argentina. Freddy Timmermann Lopez is Senior Lecturer at Catholic University Silva Henriquez, Chile. Maximiliano E. Korstanje is Senior Lecturerin the Economics Department, University of Palermo, Argentina, and Fellow at CERS University of Leeds, UK, and University of Havana, Cuba. 

“This book makes a very significant and original contribution to our understanding of neoliberalism. Its originality lies in its ability to map out both from below and from above the political, cultural, and economic consequences of the loss of state power that ensues with the implementation of neoliberalism. This volume also provides a veritable international understanding of neoliberalism with its authors from across the globe. This book is a must read!” (Brett Troyan, Professor of History, State University of New York, Cortland College, USA)

“Neoliberalism in Multi-Disciplinary Perspective is important for at least two reasons. On the one hand, it introduces non-Spanish speaking scholars to leading Latin American authors on neoliberalism as well as exposing readers to approaches from France, United States, Israel, Spain, and Italy. On the other, it covers in depth a theme neglected in discussions on the topic:  how neoliberal economics and politics constitutes the very sensibilities—fear, contingency, ephemerality, compulsive consumption, and ‘tourism’—of we who live within the framework it imposes upon us. In effect, this ‘politics of sensibility’ expands Marx’s idea of alienation.” (Fred Evans, Professor of Philosophy, Duquesne University, USA)

“This volume helps expand the terms of debate about ‘neoliberalism.’ The result is a rich and informative text. The first part of the book provides many insights on a wide variety of theoretical issues related to neoliberalism, such as: the alleged breakdown of the so-called ‘republican pact,’ the dynamics of ‘progressive’ co-optation, the culture of terror, the spread of consumer-mentality, to the management and compression of time. The second part of the book sketches dynamics of ‘living neoliberalism’ across many different contexts, including very interesting chapters on ‘body, emotion and terror in Chile,’ a radical critique of tourism, experiences of work in the ‘new economy’ among youth in Italy, and privacy and hacking. The book takes an important step towards providing a more theoretically sophisticated and a less U.S.-centric, more re-centered, understanding of neoliberalism in global perspective.”  (Thomas Jeffrey Miley, Lecturer of Political Sociology, Fellow of Darwin College, University of Cambridge, UK)

Aims to answer with a pluralistic approach the question, “What is the meaning of neoliberalism today?” Provides a systematic reflection on what neoliberalism is, and addresses a host of problems, which allows the reader to understand the social practices, narratives, and processes that characterize neoliberalism Contributes notably to the grounds of social sciences, igniting a new discussion, which escapes to the unilateral barriers of ethnocentrism

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