Disorienting neoliberalism : global justice and the outer limit of freedom /
By: McKean, Benjamin Laing [author.]
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BookPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press , 2020Description: pages cm.ISBN: 9780190087807.Subject(s): Neoliberalism. -- Neoliberalism | Free enterprise. -- Free enterprise | Social problems. -- Social problems | Social justice | GlobalizationDDC classification: 330.01 | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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BardBerlinLibrary 2nd floor | 330.01 MCK 2020 (Browse shelf) | Available |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : injustice in a disorienting world -- Neoliberal theory as a source of orientation -- Seeing (like) supply chain managers -- The outer limit of freedom -- Ugly progress and unhopeful hope -- The significance of solidarity -- Why sovereignty is not a solution -- Conclusion : freedom and resentment amid neoliberalism.
"In a dizzying global economy full of injustices that threaten our freedom, people who want to promote justice should be disposed to solidarity with each other. When global supply chains assemble products from every corner of the global and workers' economic futures seem ever more uncertain, the very neoliberal theories that helped usher in this world also provide a powerful way to understand and navigate it. Those who want to resist the injustices of today's global economy need to reorient our way of seeing so that we can more act effectively. By drawing on a diverse range of thinkers from G. W. F. Hegel and John Rawls to W. E. B. Du Bois and Iris Marion Young, Disorienting Neoliberalism provides an account of freedom that can inform transnational movements for justice. In doing so, it shows how political theory be understood as a source of orientation to the world, illuminating how ideals can help guide action even when they may be impossible to realize. By explaining how neoliberal institutions and ideas constrain the freedom of people throughout the supply chain from worker to consumer, the book provides a new orientation to the global economy in which we can see each other as partners in resisting a shared obstacle to freedom and thus be called to collective action. Cultivating this disposition to solidarity better expresses our freedom than the pity and resentment which global inequality so often gives rise to"--
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