Event overview
The paradoxical crisis of neoliberal hegemony
With the election of Donald Trump, the Brexit leave vote, and rising left and right wing populisms around the world, it would appear today as if the end of neoliberalism was nigh. As the ruling common sense of policy makers, economists, business people, and mainstream journalists on a global basis since the 1980s, neoliberalism appears threatened by a number of new factors in global politics. These include the collapse of global trade and the reversal of the process of ‘globalisation’, the rise of new political parties, and the re-assertion of both the nation state as horizon of political aggregation and a rancorous anti-immigrant politics. This talk will argue that to understand what is happening today requires us to comprehend the paradoxical object of neoliberal hegemony itself, and that in so doing we might be suspicious of claims that neoliberalism is on its death-bed.
Bio:
Alex Williams is a lecturer in Sociology at City, University of London. He is the author of Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work (with Nick Srnicek) and the forthcoming Hegemony Now: Power in the Twenty-First Century (2017).
Dates & times
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16 Jan 2017 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
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