Feminists rethink the neoliberal state : inequality, exclusion, and change /
edited by Leela Fernandes.
- New York : New York University Press, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Preface -- Conceptualizing the post-liberalization state : intervention, restructuring, and the nature of -- State power / What's in a word? : austerity, precarity, and neoliberalism / After rights : choice and the structure of citizenship / The production of silence : the state-NGO nexus in Bangladesh / An improvising state : market reforms, neoliberal governmentality, gender, and caste in Gujarat India / The broken windows of Rosa Ramos : neoliberal policing regimes of imminent violability / After neoliberalism? : resignifying economy, nation, and family in Ecuador / Toward a feminist analytic of the post-liberalization state / About the contributors -- Index -- Notes. Leela Fernandes -- Nancy A. Naples -- Ujju Aggarwal -- Lamia Karim -- Dolly Daftary -- Christina Heatherton -- Amy Lind -- Leela Fernandes --
A rich set of feminist perspectives on the varied and often contradictory nature of state practices, structures, and ideologies Growing socio-economic inequality and exclusion are defining features of the twenty-first century. While debates on globalization, free trade, and economic development have been linked to the paradigm of "neo-liberalism," it does not explain all the forms of social change that have been unfolding in comparative contexts. Feminists Rethink the Neoliberal State provides a timely intervention into discussions about the boundaries, practices, and nature of the post-liberalization state, suggesting that an understanding of economic policies, the corresponding rise of socio-economic inequality, and the possibilities for change requires an in-depth reconceptualization. Drawing on original field research both globally and within the United States, this volume brings together a rich set of perspectives on the varied and often contradictory nature of state practices, structures and ideologies in the post-liberalization era. The essays develop an interdisciplinary approach that treats an understanding of historically-specific forms of inequality-such as gender, race, caste, sexuality and class-as integral to, rather than as after-effects of, the policies and ideologies associated with the "neoliberal project." The volume also tackles central questions on the restructuring of the state, the state's power operations, the relationship between capital and the state, and its interactions with the institutions and organizational forms of civil society in the post-liberalization era.
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Women's rights--History--21st century. Women--Legal status, laws, etc. Women--Social conditions--21st century.