Daily Archives: February 23, 2014

What is neoliberalism? (HUM415)

A really useful series of very short interviews produced by the Barnard Center for Research on Women. I think Elizabeth Bernstein’s taxonomy of critical approaches to neoliberalism is particularly helpful, but just as notable are remarks by other scholars on the roles of 1) gender and sexuality, 2) mass incarceration, and 3) the creation of “self-responsibilized neoliberal subjects” in the entrenchment and expansion of the neoliberal paradigm: