Thinking Beyond Neoliberalism: Alternative Societies, Transition, and Resistance

Series Editor’s Foreword
Foreword
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Thinking Beyond Neoliberalism: Theorising the Future in the Present
	Naming the Beast: Defining ‘Neoliberalism’
		Neoliberal Economics
		Neoliberal Subjecthood
		Neoliberal Governmentality
		Neoliberal Ideology
		Neoliberal (Geo-)Politics
		Actually Existing Neoliberalism
	Theorising Alternative Societies, Transition, and Resistance
	Conclusion
	References
The Future in the Present
Mapping Alternative Economies
	Communism
		Attempts at Communism
		Assessing State Socialism
	Co-Operative Ownership
	Participatory Economics and Alternative Work
	Freeganism and the Alternative Economy
	Community Wealth Building and the Democratic Economy
		From an Extractive to a Circulatory Economy
		Institutional Change and Socialism
		Localism and Scaling Up
	National and Public Ownership
	Alternatives and Their Critics
	References
Co-operatives and Socialism: The Promises and Contradictions of a System of Worker Ownership
	Introduction
	What Makes a Co-operative Socialist?
	Alienation, Management, and Work in Co-operatives
		Division of Labour
		Capitalist Social Relations
		Market Relations
	The Role of Co-operatives in Capitalism
	Co-operatives and Transformation
	Conclusion: What Is to Be Done?
	References
Why the Post-Covid World needs a Universal Basic Income
	The Adaptability of Neoliberal Politics
	The Need for a Basic Income
	Could Basic Income Really Give Everyone a Stake in Society?
	Conclusion
	References
Theorising the Possible
Regaining the Future: Temporality and Left Politics
	Chronos and Kairos
	Chronological Dominance
	Crises as Extended Chronological Moments
	The Formal and Real Subsumption of Social Life
	Reclaiming the Future
	Conclusion
	References
There is no Place like Hope: Ernst Bloch’s Utopian Consciousness
	Utopias in Social and Political Theory
	Neoliberalism and Utopia
	Striving, Longing, Hoping
	Bloch’s Account of ‘Noch-Nicht’
	Bloch and Neoliberalism
	Conclusion
	References
Connection Lost: Fully Automated Luxury Communism, Critical Theory and Psychoanalytic Perspectives
	Introduction
		Manufacturing Tomorrow: Establishing F.A.L.C.
		Finding the Space for Change and Unpacking F.A.L.C.’s Issues
		The Opportunity for Synthesis
	Conclusion
	References
The Pathology of Normalcy and Consensual Validation: Thinking Beyond Neoliberalism with Erich Fromm
	A Background on Fromm
	Neoclassical Economics vs. Normative Humanism
	How is This Consensually Validated?
	Covid-19 in the Time of Neoliberal Social Pathology
	What Can Be Done?
	References
Institutional Transition and Resistance
Employability as Exploitability: A Marxist Critical Pedagogy
	The Employability Agenda and the Neoliberal University
		Policy Making in HE and Employability Metrics
		A Growing Academic Field
	Pedagogy for Exploitability, or the Counter-Conduct of Employability
		Explaining the Rise of the Employability Agenda
		A Counter-Conduct Pedagogy for Exploitability: How to Know When to Quit a Job
		Concluding Thoughts
	Bibliography
Neoliberal Creep and Reach: Education Services Within the UK
	Introduction
	Beyond the Second Post-War Settlement
		France
		Germany
		United Kingdom
	The Blair-Brown Governments
	Coalition and Conservatives from 2010
	The Impact of Neoliberalism on Education Services in England
		The Two Faces of English Education
		Golden Age Drive to Comprehensive Education
		The Neoliberal and Neoconservative March on Education
		New Labour: New Neoliberalism
	Post-16 Education and the Workforce
	Neoliberal War Against Trade Union Power
	Small Change: Small Challenge
	Grass-Roots Campaigns
	There is Nothing like a Star
	Conclusion
	Annex
	References
Conclusion
Conclusion: Observations from the Precipice
	Actual Alternatives
	Theorising Postneoliberal Transition
	Institutional Resistance and Counter-Conduct
	Conclusion
	References
Index