Jo Littler, "Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and Political" (Lawrence Wishart, 2023)
New Books in Critical Theory
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The Rise of Neoliberalism
Wendy Brown is one of the leading theorists of neoliberalism. She's particularly interested in formations of neoliberal rationality and how they operate at the levels of you know psychological and social governance as well as governmental governance. How those those rationalities of people being pushed and forced to operate as specs of capital comes into being, she says. The way in which what Nancy Fraser called progressive neoliberalism or social neoliberalism is becoming much more bordered. Yeah so we talked about that and we also talked about the rise of different forms of privatization such as neoliberal nationalism.
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