Thinking about neoliberalism as if the crisis was actually happening

Between recognition and redistribution: disability, (human) rights, and struggles over welfare in Serbia

“…The concept of a hegemonic project is useful in that it stresses the importance of cultural and ideological frameworks that legitimate neoliberalization in broader than just ‘economic’ terms (Mikuš : 214‐15). The discourse about rights and obligations of disabled people can be thus recognized as the part of the ‘public mytho‐poetics of neoliberalism’ (Kalb : 321) that legitimates the changing policies as emancipatory and depoliticizes their failures by blaming them on the deficiencies of disabled individuals and legacies of socialism. However, it is equally crucial that, in line with the notion of hegemony as a provisional and often fragile compromise between multiple classes and groups (Mikuš : 224), this co‐optation of disability rights does not eliminate the possibility of different ways in which they might be mobilized and in which disabled people might engage with the neoliberal reforms, as I proceed to show in the next section.…”

‘Crises of Modernity’ Discourses and the Rise of Financial Technologies in a Contested Mechanized World

“…The possibility of shaping democratic culture and realizing Bildung, it is argued, depends on educated political, corporate, and cultural elites informed by philosophy, not on crowds. Marxian scholars, by contrast, identify the protests as a revolutionary movement of the working classes against financial capitalism and its rulers from Wall Street (Kalb 2012;Haiven and Khasnabish 2014: 35). Liberal scholars argue that the protests are a struggle for rights and against austerity measures.…”

“…The loss of legitimacy is expressed in worldwide protests that are typically labelled as 'post-11 movements' (see Davis et al 2016), like Occupy Wall Street, Blockupy Frankfurt, and the Indignados movement, as well as movements like Wikileaks and Anonymous (Swyngedouw 2011;Turner 2011;Kalb 2012;TaylorGooby 2013: 2). Scholars assess the meaning of such protests in different ways.…”

Gambling Debt: Iceland's Rise and Fall in the Global Economy

“…Neoliberalism remains a contested comparative term, witnessed by a recent lively discussion in anthropology (see, e.g., Gudeman 2009;Hart 2012;Kalb 2012). While it has been difficult to pin down and recent definitions vary depending on their emphases (see, e.g., Collier 2012), it seems to be a term sufficiently robust to address recent events in the global economy and community.…”