New Landscapes of Inequality: Neoliberalism and the Erosion of Democracy in America (School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1934691011 ISBN 13: 9781934691014

Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press, 2008

Synopsis

The twenty-first century opened with a rapidly growing array of markers of human misery: endemic warfare, natural disasters, global epidemics, climate change. Behind the dismal headlines are a series of closely connected, long-term political-economic processes, often glossed as the rise of neoliberal capitalism. This phenomenon rests on the presumption that capitalist trade "liberalization" will lead inevitably to market growth and optimal social ends. But so far the results have not been positive. Focusing on the United States, the contributors to this volume analyze how the globalization of newly untrammeled capitalism has exacerbated preexisting inequalities, how the retreat of the benevolent state and the rise of the punitive, imperial state are related, how poorly privatized welfare institutions provide services, how neoliberal and neoconservative ideologies are melding, and how recurrent moral panics misrepresent class, race, gendered, and sexual realities on the ground.

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New Landscapes of Inequality: Neoliberalism and the Erosion of Democracy in America speaks on the growing inequality of America which slowly increase[s] the gap between those living in ghettos and those living in posh cities. A collection of scholarly essays on the subject from some of the most educated thinkers on the subject, New Landscapes of Inequality is sure to appeal to those with an unquenchable first [sic] for political opinions and ideas. --James A. Cox, Small Press Bookwatch, August 2008

This timely, gloomy, informative and illuminating volume brings together an interdisciplinary set of voices to reveal what happens when 'markets rule,' the stae retreats from its legal and moral duties, and 'punitive governance' becomes the norm. --Alisse Waterston, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CCNY

The book is extremely timely, with original and cutting-edge perspectives.... --Faye V. Harrison, University of Florida

This timely, gloomy, informative and illuminating volume brings together an interdisciplinary set of voices to reveal what happens when 'markets rule,' the stae retreats from its legal and moral duties, and 'punitive governance' becomes the norm. --Alisse Waterston, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CCNY

The book is extremely timely, with original and cutting-edge perspectives.... --Faye V. Harrison, University of Florida

This timely, gloomy, informative and illuminating volume brings together an interdisciplinary set of voices to reveal what happens when 'markets rule,' the stae retreats from its legal and moral duties, and 'punitive governance' becomes the norm. --Alisse Waterston, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CCNY

The book is extremely timely, with original and cutting-edge perspectives.... --Faye V. Harrison, University of Florida

About this edition

• Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1934691011
• ISBN 13: 9781934691014
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Collins Jane L., Leonardo Micaela Di, Williams Brett