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978-1-78348-771-4 • Hardback • March 2016 • $176.00 • (£137.00)
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David Chandler is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster, UK. He was the founding editor of the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding and currently edits the journal Resilience: International Policies, Practices and Discourses. He also edits two book series: Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding and Advances in Democratic Theory.
Julian Reid is Chair and Professor of International Relations at the University of Lapland, Finland. He is co-author of Resilient Life: The Art of Living Dangerously, The Liberal Way of War: Killing to Make Life Live and author of Biopolitics of the War on Terror.
Introduction:The Neoliberal Subject / 1. Debating Neoliberalism: The Exhaustion of the Liberal Problematic, David Chandler /2. Debating Neoliberalism: The Horizons of the Biopolitical, Julian Reid / Part I: Resilience / 3. Resilience: The Societialisation of Security, David Chandler / 4. Resilience: The Biopolitics of Security, Julian Reid / Part II: Adaptation / 5. Development as Adaptation, David Chandler / 6. Adaptation: The War on Autonomy, Julian Reid / Part III: Vulnerability / 7. The Self-Construction of Vulnerability, David Chandler / 8. Embodiment as Vulnerability, Julian Reid / Conclusion: Interview with Gideon Baker / Bibliography / Index
Should you read this book? Absolutely. It’s an invaluable discussion of how immanence and government coincide in our Janus-faced present, a trenchant analysis of liberal resilience modes of government and what they demand of our souls, and is a confident expression of what a new, destituted humanism could be.
— Society & Space
This fantastic book is centred on debates about how people understand themselves and their relations to the world. The back and forth discussion gets to the heart of current issues like resilience – with its doubtful, vulnerable and dependent subjects. At a time when the liberal subject appears shrunk and degraded, this timely debate somehow tries to find hope that there are more creative and fulfilling alternatives.
— Jonathan Joseph, Professor of Politics, The University of Sheffield
The Neoliberal Subject offers a timely and trenchant dialogue on neoliberalism from two of the world’s most incisive critical international relations theorists. It adds immeasurable depth to the debate on neoliberalism, revealing its resonance with the widely popular categories of vulnerability, resilience and adaptation. A must read for any serious reader of contemporary precariousness and the political economies of risk and global environmental change.
— Andrew Baldwin, Associate Professor in Human Geography, Durham University
This most unusual of books stands united against the enemy of the diminished subject of neoliberalism found in the apologias of resilience and adaptation. Its authors however engage in a friendly but spirited rivalry over the origins of this subject and the alternatives to it. The result is an important radical debate on the potentials and risks of contemporary political reason and imagination.
— Mitchell Dean, Professor of Public Governance, Copenhagen Business School