Social resilience in the neoliberal era / edited by Peter A. Hall, Michèle Lamont.
Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (xx, 395 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:- text
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- HN17.5 .S617 2013

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Introduction / Peter A. Hall and Michèle Lamont -- Part I. Neo-Liberalism: Policy Regimes, International Regimes and Social Effects. The neo-liberal era: ideology, policy, and social effects / Peter Evans and William H. Sewell, Jr. ; Narratives and regimes of social and human rights: the Jack Pines of the neo-liberal era / Jane Jenson and Ron Levi ; Neo-liberal multiculturalism? / Will Kymlicka. -- Part II: The Social Sources of Individual Resilience. Responses to discrimination and social resilience under neo-liberalism: the case of Brazil, Israel, and the United States / Michèle Lamont, Jessica S. Welburn, and Crystal Fleming ; Stigmatization, neoliberalism, and resilience / Leanne S. Son Hing ; Security, meaning, and the home: conceptualizing multi-scalar resilience in a neo-liberal era / James Dunn. -- Part III. Social Resilience on a Macro-Scale. Neo-liberalism and social resilience in the developed democracies / Lucy Barnes and Peter A. Hall ; Social resilience in the neoliberal era: national differences in population health and development / Daniel Keating, Arjumand Siddiqi, and Quynh Nguyen. -- Part IV. Communities and Organizations as Sites for Social Resilience. Neo-liberalism in Québec: the response of a small nation under pressure / Gérard Bouchard ; Can communities succeed when states fail them? A case study of early human development and social resilience in a neo-liberal era / Clyde Hertzman and Arjumand Siddiqi ; Cultural sources of institutional resilience: lessons from chieftaincy in rural Malawi / Ann Swidler ; The origins and dynamics of organizational resilience: a comparative study of two french labor organizations / Marcos Ancelovici.
What is the impact of three decades of neoliberal narratives and policies on communities and individual lives? What are the sources of social resilience? This book offers a sweeping assessment of the effects of neoliberalism, the dominant feature of our times. It analyzes the ideology in unusually wide-ranging terms as a movement that not only opened markets but also introduced new logics into social life, integrating macro-level analyses of the ways in which neoliberal narratives made their way into international policy regimes with micro-level analyses of the ways in which individuals responded to the challenges of the neoliberal era. The product of ten years of collaboration among a distinguished group of scholars, it integrates institutional and cultural analysis in new ways to understand neoliberalism as a syncretic social process and to explore the sources of social resilience across communities in the developed and developing worlds.