Networked Neoliberalism: Analyzing Stability and Change in 'Global' Citizenship

• In Event: Global Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Globalization

Abstract

This project, an analysis of contemporary United States citizenship through the practice of whole body donation, attends to the way that the shift to a networked and global or placeless society makes the need to find a space of value and relevance for the self more urgent than ever. Network shifts the neoliberal theme of responsibility to community out to a global relation that in turn promises the ‘self’ an enhanced potential for mattering.

Author

• Julie Borkin, Oakland University