{"product_id":"neoliberal-contentions-lois-harder-9781487560881","title":"Neoliberal Contentions: Diagnosing the Present","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince the 1980s, neoliberalism has had a major impact on social life and, in turn, research in the social sciences. Emerging from the crisis of the Keynesian welfare state, neoliberalism describes a social transformation that has impacted relationships between citizens and the state, consumers and the market, and individuals and groups.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eNeoliberal Contentions\u003c\/i\u003e offers original essays that explore neoliberalism in its various guises. It includes chapters on economic policy and restructuring, resource extraction, multiculturalism and equality, migration and citizenship, health reform, housing policy, and 2SLGBTQ communities. Drawing on the work of influential Canadian political economist Janine Brodie, the contributors use Brodie's scholarship as a springboard for their own distinct analyses of pressing political and social issues.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledging neoliberalism's crises, failures, and contradictions, this collection contends with neoliberalism by \"diagnosing the present,\" situating the phenomenon within a broader historical and political-economic context and observing instances in which neoliberal rationality is reinforced as well as resisted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lois Harder\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1487560885\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781487560881\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/26\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.13h x 6.14w x 1.02d","brand":"Lois Harder","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44079216918783,"sku":"9781487560881","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_415d1785-a5c9-425d-9d39-8f1a386c68f1.jpg?v=1685479853","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/neoliberal-contentions-lois-harder-9781487560881","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}