Table of contents

Introduction / Deborah R. Brock

Part 1: Governing Subjects, Communities, and Cultures

1 Governing Lives Worth Living: The Neoliberal Biopolitics of Disability / Kelly Fritsch

2 The Governmentality of Gay Rights: Queer Love in Neoliberal Times / Suzanne Lenon

3 Governing Cultures, Making Multicultural Subjects / Xiaobei Chen

4 Aboriginal Community Research: Government and Neoliberal Self-Determination / Daniel Huizenga and Rosemary J. Coombe

Part 2: Governing Responsibility

5 Calculating Normative Literacy, Constituting Human Capital / Tannis Atkinson

6 “Engines of Change?” Hybrid Cars, Hybrid Rationalities, and Neoliberal Environmentalism / Nicole Van Lier

7 The lululemon Manifesto: Dance, Sing, Floss, and Self-Govern / Kristin Lozanski and Christine Lavrence

8 Being Reasonable: Risk, Fear, and Specialized Peace Bonds / Mark D. Doerkson

Part 3: Governing (In)Security

9 Governing Uncertainty: Resilience and the Biopolitics of Security / Philip J. Boyle and Marcia Oliver

10 Governing through Sacrifice: Militarization, Commemoration, and Canadian Identity / Bianca Baggiarini

11 Regulating Immigrants and Managing Populations: Probationary Status and Conditionality / David Moffette

12 “Come Out and Be Free!”: Coming Out and the (International) Government of Sexualities / Azar Masoumi

Conclusion

Index

This accessible but theoretically sophisticated volume reveals how neoliberalism – as both an economic project and a broader political approach – has come to govern our daily lives, our understanding of the world we live in, and even how we think about ourselves.

Description

The contributors to this volume reveal how neoliberalism’s power to redefine “normal” is refashioning every facet of our lives. By providing examples and case studies of neoliberalism in action, this thought-provoking volume not only reveals how we are being constituted as biopolitical and neoliberal subjects, it encourages us to think of the world as more than a marketplace and to open ourselves up to the possibilities of resistance.