The SAGE Handbook of Neoliberalism

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

“…While the neoliberal system has a remarkable capacity to survive and reinvent itself in the face of crisis (Cahill and Konings, 2017;Crouch, 2011) and incorporate dissent, it also contains a structural weakness: the experience of neoliberalism can force people to organise against it. The relationship between NGOs and states, parties and movements continues to be negotiated in this era of protest (Bailey, 2015;Cox and Nilsen, 2014).…”

“…The nature of neoliberalism as a mode of accumulation that penetrates virtually all aspects of economic, political and social life has meant that the global financial crisis is, of course, not limited to the economy. It has come to be accompanied by full-scale political and social crises in both the Global North and South (Cahill and Konings, 2017;Mirowski, 2014), and a crisis of neoliberalism itself (Saad-Filho, 2011). Despite the intellectual vacuity of neoliberalism as a system capable of explaining the world, and its declining legitimacy the world over, the neoliberals themselves appear to have no alternative to neoliberalism, except authoritarianism.…”

Social psychology, consumer culture and neoliberalism: A response to Phelps and White (2018)

“…Whether for pragmatic reasons and/or because an alternative (set of) concept(s) has yet to be developed, neoliberalism was still employed by the authors in the title of their substantive edited book on the subject, The Handbook of Neoliberalism (Springer, Birch, & MacLeavy, ). Cahill, Cooper, Konings, and Primrose () followed suit in their more recently published handbook The Sage Handbook of Neoliberalism . Despite its lack of conceptual precision, a number of authors have come to agree that neoliberalism is committed to the privileging of free‐market forces over government decision making (e.g.…”

Social psychology and neoliberalism: A critical commentary on McDonald, Gough, Wearing, and Deville (2017)

“…The word "psychology" is used only three times in the main text, while none of the fifty-three contributors selfidentify as a psychologist. In parallel, the online description for the upcoming Sage Handbook of Neoliberalism (Cahill, Cooper, Konings, & Primrose, 2018) omits any mention of psychology in their list of disciplines that adopt neoliberalism. They state "over the last two decades, 'neoliberalism', once a term largely used in economics, has emerged as a key concept within a range of social science disciplines including sociology, political science, human geography, anthropology, political economy, and cultural studies."…”