This book explores how changes that occurred around 1989 shaped the study of the social sciences, and scrutinizes the impact of the paradigm of neoliberalism in different disciplinary fields. The contributors examine the ways in which capitalism has transmuted into a seemingly unquestionable, triumphant framework that globally articulates economics with epistemology and social ontology. The volume also investigates how new narratives of capitalism are being developed by social scientists in order to better understand capitalism"s ramifications in various domains of knowledge. At its heart, Beyond Neoliberalism seeks to unpack and disaggregate neoliberalism, and to take readers beyond the analytical limitations that a traditional framework of neoliberalism entails.
PART I: Epistemic and Conceptual Shifts in the Wake of 19891. De-theorizing in order to Re-theorize Emergent Alignments. A Rumination2. A Triple Movement? Parsing the Politics of Crisis after Polanyi3. The Critique of Transitologist Discourse, or what is to be done with "post"?4. A Fractured Globe: Anthropology and Narration after 19895. Postcolonial Criticism after 1989PART II: New Narratives of Capitalism: Interrogating Knowledge Production and Ethnography6. Cash and Livelihood in Soft Currency Economies: challenges for research7. Economic Anthropology, Islamic Finance, and the Limits of Capitalism8. Religion and Secularism in Neoliberal Capitalism9. The Last Men before the Last: a Russian messianic revival in the twilight of history10. The End of Ideology? Re-conceptualizing Citizenship and Culture in a Post-(political) Place World11. Humanitarianism after the Cold War: The Case of Haiti12. The uneasy relationship between "China" and "Globalization" in p
ost-Cold War scholarship13. New Human Rights Paradigms in the Neo-Liberal Age14. 1989 as a Historical Caesura in the Study of History
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"This will prove to be a landmark volume not only for the historical and political sociology of post-communist Europe but for wider academic understanding of neoliberal capitalism. The transmutation of global capitalism is provocatively assessed by a host of leading voices that has been assembled here to reflect on the local instances of a networked crisis. That novel predicament demands a new conceptual vocabulary and a new approach to the methods of social science. This rich and stimulating book offers a massive contribution to both." (Paul Gilroy, King's College, London, England) "The authors of the present volume -- an impressive array of thinkers from various disciplines and continents -- assess the significance of 1989 on social theory and challenge, [notably] thanks to [vivid] ethnographic studies, the concepts we, as social scientists and citizens, use to describe the world we live in. Seldom has ethnography been put to such a stimulating contribution." (Barbara Theriault, Universite de Montreal, Canada) "This provocative collection examines the complex and contradictory effects of the end of the Cold War on social theory, scholarship, and academic discourse in a variety of fields. Some of the contributions also analyze today's neoliberal capitalism, and forms of resistance to it, and dare to imagine social life beyond neoliberalism. This volume will interest anyone interested in the social and intellectual legacies of "1989" and the nature of the present era." (Jeff Goodwin, New York University, USA)
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1 Beyond Neoliberalism? Social Analysis after 1989 |
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Part I Epistemic and Conceptual Shifts in the Wake of 1989 |
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2 De-theorizing in Order to Re-theorize Emergent Alignments: A Rumination |
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3 A Triple Movement? Parsing the Politics of Crisis after Polanyi |
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4 A Critique of Transition Studies on Postsocialism, or How to Rethink and Reorient 1989? The Case of (Post)Socialist (Post)Yugoslavia |
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5 A Fractured Globe: Anthropology and Narration after 1989 |
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6 Postcolonial Criticism after 1989: A Conversation with Gal Kirn and Marian Burchardt |
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Part II New Narratives of Capitalism: Interrogating Knowledge Production and Ethnography |
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7 Cash and Livelihood in Soft Currency Economies: Challenges for Research |
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8 Rationality, Risk, Uncertainty, and Islamic Finance |
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9 Religion and Secularism in Neoliberal Capitalism |
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10 The Last Men before the Last: A Russian Messianic Revival in the Twilight of History |
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11 The End of Ideology? Reconceptualizing Citizenship and Culture in a Post-(political) Place World |
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12 Humanitarianism after the Cold War: The Case of Haiti |
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13 The Uneasy Relationship between "China" and "Globalization" in Post-Cold War Scholarship |
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14 New Human Rights Theories for Post-Constitutional Societies |
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15 1989/91 as a Caesura in the Study of History: A Personal Retrospective |
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Marian Burchardt is a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany. He is also the author of Faith in the Time of AIDS: Religion, Biopolitics and Modernity in South Africa (2015), and is a co-editor of Multiple Secularities Beyond the West (2015), After Integration (2015), and Topographies of Faith (2013).
Gal Kirn is a Humboldt postdoctoral fellow at Humboldt University, Germany. He is also the author of Ruptures and Contradictions of Market Socialism (2015), and is a co-editor of Encountering Althusser (2012), Yugoslav Black Wave Cinema and its Transgressive Moments (2012), and Postfordism and its Discontents (2010).
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