Fordham University Press Mutant Neoliberalism: Market Rule and Political Rupture

This interdisciplinary collection, featuring some of today's most prominent political theorists, sociologists, philosophers, and historians, challenges narratives of neoliberalism's demise. The book queries whether contemporary political ruptures-including the rise of far-right forces-will challenge, support, or extend the reach of market rule around the globe. Review In the debate over what neoliberalism was, whether or not it died, the question of what it morphed into has not been explored. Until now. Callison and Manfredi take up that challenge in this collection of essays by leading scholars... the essays, taken together, provide an extended examination of the possible mutations of neoliberalism that scholars will explore in their future work.-- "Choice" Mutant Neoliberalism is an excellent collection of essays canvassing what editors William Callison and Zachary Manfredi rightly diagnose as the changing face of neoliberalism-really, the multiplicity of national, transnational and post-national neoliberalisms-evolving in the aftermath of the 2007-2008 financial crisis. ---David Singh Grewal, UC Berkeley School of Law, Engaging with neoliberalism and its mutations, offers us a way to think about the complexity and struggle of the way forward... Callison and Manfredi's collection refuses to offer guarantees about the end of neoliberalism, or even the end of the beginning. But... this collection offers critical insights about how to strategize and struggle against it. ---Corinne Blalock, Executive Director of the Law and Political Economy Project, Neoliberalism has frequently been pronounced dead in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, but the beast lives on. This collection is a strong addition to recent studies of the topic, exploring neoliberalism's relationships with the EU, the far right, populism, and gender. ---Doug Henwood, Producer of Behind the News, This is the book we need today. The authors refuse to debate about what liberalism 'is' and instead take us into the thicket of its fracturing and multiple futures in the wake of the great financial crisis. ---Elizabeth Povinelli, Columbia University, Viewed in terms of mutation, neoliberalism can be understood as containing various genes and genres that were innocent enough at their birth, but which adapt and grow in response to history, often in malign ways. It's a valuable framing and a terrific collection of pieces, that has helped me look back on my own work and that of other neoliberalism scholars in a fresh light. ---William Davies, Goldsmiths, University of London, About the Author William Callison is Visiting Assistant Professor of Government and Law at Lafayette College. He is co-editor of “Rethinking Sovereignty and Capitalism” ( Qui Parle) and of “Europe at a Crossroads” ( Near Futures Online, Zone Books). Zachary Manfredi is an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project. His recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Humanity, The New York University Law Review, The Texas Journal of International Law, and Critical Times. Étienne Balibar is Professor Emeritus of Moral and Political Philosophy at Université de Paris X-Nanterre; Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine; and Visiting Professor of French at Columbia University. His many books in English include Citizen Subject: Foundations for Philosophical Anthropology (Fordham, 2016), Violence and Civility: On the Limits of Political Philosophy (Columbia, 2016); Equaliberty: Political Essays (Duke, 2014); We, the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship (Princeton, 2003); Politics and the Other Scene (Verso, 2002); Masses, Classes, Ideas: Studies on Politics and Philosophy before and after Marx (Routledge, 1994), and two important co-authored books, Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities (with Immanuel Wallerstein; Verso, 1988) and Reading Capital: The Complete Edition (with Louis A