Neoliberalism Reloaded

Authoritarian Governmentality and the Rise of the Radical Right

Matías Saidel

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9783110724011
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Política y relaciones internacionales
• Subtopic: Ideologías políticas

Neoliberalism Reloaded: Authoritarian Governmentality and the Rise of the Radical Right analyzes the violent enforcement of neoliberal governmentality and its relationship to the emergence of a new political and cultural Right that combines political authoritarianism, ethnocentric nationalism, racism, misogyny, and antifeminism with neoliberal economic principles. Many critical thinkers have defined this post-2008 crisis phase as a fascist moment of neoliberalism since far-Right movements and parties are not only enhancing their political representation but also setting the agenda of today's politics. However, such a crucial political moment needs more precise analytical tools.

In this framework, Neoliberalism Reloaded: Authoritarian Governmentality and the Rise of the Radical Right seeks to understand the emergence of the New Right and punitive neoliberalism not only as a reaction to a crisis of accumulation but also as an outcome of neoliberal reason and the historical neoliberal alliance with conservative and reactionary political forces. Therefore, far from thinking this moment as exceptional, this book seeks the roots of today's punitive neoliberalism in its theoretical framework and in the violence inherent to neoliberal capitalism towards those racialized, colonized, genderized and precarized populations that cannot adjust to the norm of competitiveness. Thus, Neoliberalism Reloaded seeks to contribute to understanding the challenges of our present as a necessary step to imagine alternative futures.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Neoliberal reason
• 2 The neoliberal era and the crisis of liberal democracy
• 3 The new neoliberalism: neoliberal fascism or neoliberalism reloaded?
• 4 Authoritarian neoliberalism and the rise of the new radical right
• 5 Towards a genealogy of contemporary right-wing populism. An approach to the national-(neo)liberal trend in Europe and the United States
• 6 Anti-communism without communism? The construction of feminism as a strategic enemy of the new radical right and the dilemma of social reproduction
• 7 Rethinking the common(s) in neoliberal capitalism
• 8 Epilogue: Neoliberalism reloaded
• Index