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*CALL FOR PAPERS*
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*Anthropology Matters Journal*
*Autumn 2012 Issue*
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*A Double-Edged Sword:*
*Ethnographic Analyses of the Opportunities and Risks of Neoliberalisation*
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In this Anthropology Matters issue we seek to ethnographically examine how
neoliberalisation has both created opportunities and risks across different
groups of populations. Much literature has focused on the perverse effects
of neoliberalisation, giving only passing reference to the opportunities it
creates for particular groups (see Gledhill 2004; Harvey 2005; Peck et al.
2009; Wacquant 2009). Along with this existing body of literature, we
understand neoliberalisation to be a process of relational and sociospatial
transformation as much as a political and ideological project. In taking
such an approach, neoliberalisation cannot be seen as a monolithic
structure or system, but as manifold permutations that result from the
combination, co-existence and mutual co-dependence of neoliberal ideology
with alternative formations, languages and processes. We seek to understand
the hybrid nature of these permutations and question whether and how
neoliberal ideology manages to reproduce and maintain its hegemony. In
order to do so, we seek ethnographies that tease out the contradictions of
neoliberalisation in everyday life.
The present conjuncture of public cuts in Western Europe following the
recent credit crunch makes discussions on neoliberalisation increasingly
urgent. In the face of public outcry against neoliberal policies, some
analysts of neoliberalism have referred to the present conjuncture as
“post-neoliberal”. Nonetheless, governments and other sectors of the public
have continued to support macroeconomic policies and the institutional
matrix that allow neoliberalisation to prevail. In order to understand
neoliberalism’s continued relevance despite the current financial crisis,
this issue scrutinises how its ideological acceptance might rely on the
opportunities it provides, or is perceived to provide, to specific groups
of population.
Some of the questions that we seek papers to ethnographically address in
this issue are: How are the opportunities and risks of neoliberalisation
distributed across groups of people and regions? How does this distribution
differ or resemble previous capitalist processes? Who embraces
neoliberalisation and why? What are people’s roles in and responses to
specific processes of neoliberalisation? What are the languages employed to
describe different aspects of neoliberalising processes?
We welcome proposals by current postgraduate students and early career
anthropologists that explore these and related issues and questions. Papers
of no more than *5,000 words* should be sent to
[log in to unmask] NO LATER THAN *30th March 2012*.
For previous editions of this journal see
http://www.anthropologymatters.com/journal/
References
Gledhill, John. 2004. ‘Neoliberalism’, in Nugent, David and Joan Vincent
(eds.). *A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics*. Malden, MA and
Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
Harvey, David. 2005. *A Brief History of Neoliberalism*. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
Peck, Jamie, Nick Theodore and Neil Brenner. 2009. ‘Postneoliberalism and
its Malcontents’, in *Antipode*, Vol. 41, No. 6, pp. 1236–58.
Wacquant, Loďc. 2009. *Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of
Social Insecurity*. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
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Best Wishes,
Ainhoa Montoya and Aliaa Remtilla
Co-Editors, Anthropology Matters
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