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This volume displays a critical analysis of the political agenda that has, in the last decades, triggered multifaceted forms of precarization and social exclusion of marginalized groups in Latin America and Spain.
List of contents
Introduction: Social Suffering and Political Agency against Neoliberal Disrepair by Laura Quintana and Nuria Sánchez Madrid
Part I: Distorting the Social Contract. The Challenge of Addressing Neoliberal Cultural Politics
Chapter 1: Clash of Narratives: The Neoliberal Systemic Doctrine as Cause of Second-Order Suffering by Alessandro Pinzani
Chapter 2: The Cultural Politics of Neoliberalism: Housing Financialization, Transformations of Work and Institutional Challenges in Today's Spain by Nuria Sánchez Madrid
Part II: Neoliberal Subjectivation and The Effects of Depoliticizing Psychic Suffering
Chapter 3: Economics is the Continuation of Psychology by Other Means: Psychic Suffering and Neoliberalism as a Moral Economy by Vladimir Safatle
Chapter 4: Neoliberalism and Psychic Suffering: The Political Potential of Discontent by Rodrigo Castro Orellana
Chapter 5: Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: The Perils of Modern Subjectivity in Contemporary Mexico by Zenia Yébenes
Part III: Disclosing the Politics of Bodily Exploitation and Death Undergirding Neoliberal Rationality
Chapter 6: Insecurity as a Form of Government: Transformations in the Sphere of Work and the Politics of Bodies in Neoliberal Societies by Pablo López Álvarez
Chapter 7: Making a Living, Producing a Dignified Death: Experiences of Precarity, Expectations for the Future, and Processes of Political Subjectivization by María Inés Fernández
Chapter 8: Governing through a Politics of Death: Neoliberalism and the Ruination of Life by Laura Quintana
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Edited by Laura Quintana and Nuria Sánchez Madrid - Contributions by María Inés Fernández Álvarez; Pablo López Álvarez; Rodrigo Castro Orellana; Alessandro Pinzani; Vladimir Safatle and Zenia Yébenes
Summary
This volume displays a critical analysis of the political agenda that has, in the last decades, triggered multifaceted forms of precarization and social exclusion of marginalized groups in Latin America and Spain.
