Rethinking Neoliberalism: Concepts and Critiques

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

The aim of this panel is to critically dissect some key issues, problems, concepts, practices, and ideas that contemporary regimes of neoliberal governmentality and neoliberal violence both rely on and reproduce. Among such ideas/concepts/practices to be tackled by the papers on this panel are notions like intensity, risk, competitiveness, resilience, acceleration, freedom, self-monitoring, verticality, agony, and death-making. This panel is not just intended to be yet another opportunity to challenge neoliberalism, but rather to highlight the pervasiveness of key concepts and practices that fuel neoliberal governmentalities today.

Sub Unit

• DIVISION 2: Foundations of Political Theory

Individual Presentations

• Idioms of Freedom - Kennan Ferguson, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

• Beyond Verticality: Neoliberalism’s Making of ‘Achievement Violence’ Subjects - Francois Debrix, Virginia Tech

• Beyond Voluntary Servitude? The Emergence of Post-Capitalist Financialization - Nicholas J. Kiersey, University Of Texas Rio Grande Valley

• Neoliberal Biopolitics and Dietary “Choice”: Mapping Fungible Subject-Food Relationships - Linea Lee Cutter, Virginia Tech

Chair

• Simon A. Stow College of William & Mary

Discussant

• Caroline Grey Alphin Virginia Tech