The Neoliberal Revolution ("Soundings") - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 190710335X ISBN 13: 9781907103353

Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

Stuart Hall, Doreen Massey and Mike Rustin examine some of the contours of the neoliberal revolution, while Tariq Modood and Jan Dobbernack, and Jon Wilson, add in a different way to the discussion on Labour's future associated with the Soundings ebook The Politics of Paradox. Gerry Hassan and Paolo Gerbaudo describe successful attempts to create alternative narratives - by Alex Salmond in Scotland and Nichi Vendola in Italy respectively; and John Palmer makes a cogent case for the continuing importance of the EU. A series of articles grapple with social provision under the neoliberal dispensation: Kate Bell and Jason Strelitz discuss the framing of debates on poverty; Mark Fisher shows how the destruction of our social fabric has caused many people to suffer from stress - remedies for which have themselves been privatised; Hilary Cottam argues for putting relationships at the centre of welfare provision, rather than transactional procedures; and Sue Gerhardt, Tessa Jowell and Sarah Stewart-Brown reflect on the ways in which Sure Start, a project that initially had relationships at its core, was overtaken by the imperatives of the drive to solve poverty through welfare to work programmes.

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Review:

'Soundings is willing to ask the biggest questions, but is always rooted in the here and now: it's a vital link between the tradition of progressive thought in Britain and the futures which all of us are working for.'Jeremy Gilbert, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies, University of East London

About this edition

• Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart Ltd
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 190710335X
• ISBN 13: 9781907103353
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 157
• Editor: Michael Rustin, Jonathan Rutherford, Doreen Massey, Stuart Hall