Description
Product ID: | 9781138654631 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Key Ideas in Media & Cultural Studies |
Title: | Neoliberalism |
Authors: | Author: Julie Wilson |
Page Count: | 246 |
Subjects: | Literary theory, Literary theory, Communication studies, Cultural studies, Media studies, Sociology, Political campaigning and advertising, Communication studies, Cultural studies, Media studies, Sociology, Political campaigning & advertising |
Description: | Select Guide Rating The book’s aim is to introduce neoliberalism in all of its social complexity, so that readers can see how neoliberalism shapes their own lives, as well as our political horizons, and thereby start to imagine and build alternative worlds. Thanks to the rise of neoliberalism over the past several decades, we live in an era of rampant anxiety, insecurity, and inequality. While neoliberalism has become somewhat of an academic buzzword in recent years, this book offers a rich and multilayered introduction to what is arguably the most pressing issue of our times. Engaging with prominent scholarship in media and cultural studies, as well as geography, sociology, economic history, and political theory, author Julie Wilson pushes against easy understandings of neoliberalism as market fundamentalism, rampant consumerism, and/or hyper-individualism. Instead, Wilson invites readers to interrogate neoliberalism in true cultural studies fashion, at once as history, theory, practice, policy, culture, identity, politics, and lived experience. Indeed, the book’s primary aim is to introduce neoliberalism in all of its social complexity, so that readers can see how neoliberalism shapes their own lives, as well as our political horizons, and thereby start to imagine and build alternative worlds. |
Imprint Name: | Routledge |
Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2017-07-19 |