Reading the Conjuncture: State, Austerity, and Social Movements, an Interview with Bob Jessop

Flohr, Mikkel; Harrison, Yannick Nehemiah Antonio

doi:10.1080/08935696.2016.1163988

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“…This recent uneven expansion of coercive state intervention has variously been described as the rise of “authoritarian neoliberalism” (Bruff 2014; Bruff and Tansel 2019), “authoritarian statism” (Flohr and Harrison 2016, 313; Jessop 2019, 348), and “authoritarian liberalism” (Wilkinson 2021). Such accounts posit shifts in statecraft, from the welfare state to the consolidation state (Streek 2015), from democracy to postdemocracy (Crouch 2004), and from welfare to lawfare (Comaroff and Comaroff 2017).…”

Section: Authoritarianism Class and The Neoliberal Statementioning

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Everyday Authoritarianism: Class and Coercion on Housing Estates in Neoliberal Britain

Davey

Koch

2021

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In Britain, especially in the 2010s, neoliberal reform involved an extension of legal coercion into the domestic and community lives of marginalized citizens. On two postindustrial housing estates in Britain, working-class residents experience this "everyday authoritarianism" in areas that the liberal state typically constructs as private and purports to leave alone: the home and the intimate relations that frame it. Residents engage this legal coercion by adopting responses that range from defensive avoidance to co-opting officials to acts of vigilantism. By doing so, they negotiate the presence of an authority that is often out of sync with their own expectations for protection, and in some cases actively undermines their efforts to remain safe. Their pluralism can be framed neither in terms of an acceptance of state authority nor as a straightforward refusal to be governed. Rather, it reveals the contradictory ways in which marginalized citizens define their relationship to the state under contemporary conditions of class fragmentation. By adding detail on everyday life to meta-narratives of an authoritarian turn, this article theorizes the political potential and limits of people's daily engagements with the state for contesting the latter's authority. [class, coercion, liberal governance] Despite its ambitions of universal freedom, liberal governance has historically featured limits where it interfaces with authoritarian forms of rule. This is especially the case for those people deemed to lack the capacity for self-governance (Bennett, Dodsworth, and Joyce 2007). In Britain, class marks one such limit, along with-and intersecting with-gender and race. Liberal democracy not only historically enfranchised the propertyowning classes but also monitored, policed, and controlled working-class people in ways not known to their middle-class counterparts (Joyce 2013). Our fieldwork was conducted in the 2010s, with our focus on the recent period of British governance known as neoliberalism. In Britain, neoliberalism is generally seen as commencing in 1979 with the election of Margaret Thatcher as prime minister and her policies of privatization, welfare retrenchment, and accumulation by dispossession. During this time, the state came to subject many working-class people to evermore open forms of coercion (

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Section: Authoritarianism Class and The Neoliberal Statementioning

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“…During this time, the state came to subject many working‐class people to evermore open forms of coercion (Hall 1979; Poulantzas 1978). This has culminated, in the decade since 2010, in what some describe as an authoritarian turn (Bruff 2014; Bruff and Tansel 2019; Flohr and Harrison 2016; Jessop 2019; Wilkinson 2021).…”

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Everyday Authoritarianism: Class and Coercion on Housing Estates in Neoliberal Britain

Davey

Koch

2021

PoLAR

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“…While the Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis attempted, rationally, to explain along post‐Keynesian lines why further austerity could not result in a revival of the Greek economy, the Troika – relying on capital's superior balance of power – simply imposed its conditions. This was aided by a curtailment of both temporal sovereignty, as governments no longer had time ‘to deliberate about what their policies should be’ (Flohr and Harrison, , p. 315), and spatial sovereignty, as Troika officials dictated the terms of policy conditionality and the time frame of when it had to be fulfilled if the quarterly doses of financial assistance were to be maintained (Sotiris, , pp. 177–178).…”

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EU Aggregate Demand As a Way out of Crisis? Engaging the Post‐Keynesian Critique

Bieler

Jordan

Morton

2019

J of Common Market Studies

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Post‐Keynesians have delivered an important advance in providing explanations of the Eurozone crisis, not the least in demonstrating how the formation of the European integration project lacked the means to manage effectively the macroeconomic imbalances between core and peripheral spaces across the region. Through a critical engagement with such descriptions, this article argues that to account more adequately for the formation of the asymmetrical and crisis‐ridden forms of development across the Eurozone it is necessary to focus on the uneven and combined development of Europe's peripheral spaces and their integration into an expanded free trade regime since the 1980s. It is through a focus on the structuring condition of uneven and combined development shaped by capitalist social relations of production and attendant class struggles that we can locate the origins of the present crisis.

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“…The overall aims are to further theorise NGOs as part of the balance of class forces that impact oppositional politics at national and international levels, put NGO agency at the centre of this theorisation and consider whether and how NGOs in different contexts can be won over to being part of the project of resistance to neoliberalism. The articles are, therefore, not studies of NGOs per se but conjunctural analyses that foreground the political economy of particular national contexts with the purpose of clarifying left strategy and advancing left politics (Flohr and Harrison, 2016;Cox and Nilsen, 2014). NGOs interact with the neoliberal state and deepening inequality in distinct ways, given the vastly different politics of each national context.…”

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NGOs, Social Movements and the Neoliberal State: Incorporation, Reinvention, Critique

Ismail

Kamat

2018

Critical Sociology

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Reading the Conjuncture: State, Austerity, and Social Movements, an Interview with Bob Jessop

Cited by 16 publications

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Everyday Authoritarianism: Class and Coercion on Housing Estates in Neoliberal Britain

Everyday Authoritarianism: Class and Coercion on Housing Estates in Neoliberal Britain

EU Aggregate Demand As a Way out of Crisis? Engaging the Post‐Keynesian Critique

NGOs, Social Movements and the Neoliberal State: Incorporation, Reinvention, Critique

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