Neoliberalism, Media and the Political (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781137308351)

Neoliberalism, Media and the Political presents a novel critical analysis of the condition of media and journalism in neoliberal cultures. Emphasizing neoliberalism's status as a political ideology that is simultaneously hostile to politics, the argument is grounded in empirical illustrations from different social contexts, including post-Rogernomics New Zealand, Celtic Tiger Ireland,
the Leveson Inquiry into the UK press, and the climate-sceptic blogosphere. Phelan draws on a variety of theoretical sources, especially Laclau and Bourdieu, to affirm the importance of neoliberalism as an analytical concept. Yet, he also interrogates how critiques of neoliberalism - in media research and elsewhere - can reduce social practices to the category of neoliberal. Against the image of a monolithic free-market ideology that imposes itself on other domains, the book identifies the potential sites of a cultural politics within neoliberalized media regimes.


Author: S. Phelan
ISBN-10: 1137308354
ISBN-13: 9781137308351
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 11/11/2014
Pages: 242
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 0.90d