Authoritarian Neoliberalism: Philosophies, Practices, Contestations (Rethinking Globalizations)

Authoritarian Neoliberalism explores how neoliberal forms of managing capitalism are challenging democratic governance at local, national and international levels.

Identifying a spectrum of policies and practices that seek to reproduce neoliberalism and shield it from popular and democratic contestation, contributors provide original case studies that investigate the legal-administrative, social, coercive and corporate dimensions of authoritarian neoliberalism across the global North and South. They detail the crisis-ridden intertwinement of authoritarian statecraft and neoliberal reforms, and trace the transformation of key societal sites in capitalism (e.g. states, households, workplaces, urban spaces) through uneven yet cumulative processes of neoliberalization.

Informed by innovative conceptual and methodological approaches, Authoritarian Neoliberalism uncovers how inequalities of power are produced and reproduced in capitalist societies, and highlights how alternatives to neoliberalism can be formulated and pursued. The book was originally published as a special issue of Globalizations.

Ian Bruff is Lecturer in European Politics at the University of Manchester, UK. He has published on capitalist diversity, European capitalisms, neoliberalism and social theory. He is currently researching the foundations of neoliberal thought and is the Managing Editor of the Transforming Capitalism book series.

Cemal Burak Tansel is Lecturer in International Politics in the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield, UK. His research focuses on the historical sociology of state formation and capitalist development in the Middle East and the political economy of development. He is the Editor of States of Discipline: Authoritarian Neoliberalism and the Contested Reproduction of Capitalist Order (2017).