“…Taking inspiration from Berlant, scholars have criticised neoliberal promises for assigning responsibility to individuals, who are led to believe that success (or failure) depends solely on talent, willpower and hard work (Ravn and Churchill, 2019; Raynor, 2021; Sellar and Gale, 2011). In highlighting individual heroics in the face of hardship, neoliberal policies and discourses elide structural conditions and disparities, thus shaping future-making into a cruel individual project entailing multiform affective labours performed to sustain such optimistic attachments (Mendick et al, 2015; Raynor, 2021; Thomson and Østergaard, 2020; Zipin et al, 2015).…”