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Social harm and Neoliberalism : the Problem of ignorance /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gregson, John (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2025.
Series:Studies in social harm.
Subjects:
Crime > Sociological aspects.
Neoliberalism > Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series Information
  • Social Harm and Neoliberalism The Problem of Ignorance
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Table of Contents
  • Series Editors' Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Introduction: The Problem of Social Harm
  • Introduction
  • Structure and outline
  • Neoliberalism: contestations and conceptual approaches
  • 2 Harm Causation and Sustainment
  • Harm and social structure
  • Harm causation: Pemberton, Bauman and moral indifference
  • The contributions of ultra realism
  • Beyond moral indifference and the positive motivation to harm: the importance of ignorance
  • Developing agnotology through governmentality
  • Developing the framework: liberal modernity and MacIntyre
  • Neoliberalism as agnotology
  • 3 Ignorance, Social Harm, Neoliberalism
  • Introduction
  • Ignorance as concept
  • Ignorance and social harm
  • Neoliberalism and ignorance
  • Social ignorance
  • Strategic ignorance
  • 4 Agnotology and Crisis Narratives: Finance, Austerity and Health
  • Introduction
  • The financial crisis and ignorance
  • Austerity and agnotology
  • The COVID crisis and agnotology
  • Crises, agnoses and social harm
  • 5 Governmentality, Subjectivity, Agnotology
  • Introduction: An agnoses of subjectivity
  • Governmentality
  • Neoliberal subjectivity
  • Neoliberal ignorance and techniques of governance
  • Agnoses, subjectivity and vulnerability
  • From neoliberal governmentality to liberal modernity
  • 6 The Problem of Liberal Modernity
  • Introduction
  • Why MacIntyre?
  • Telos, morality and social life
  • Liberalism and rights
  • Social structure and liberal individualism
  • Social structure, subjectivity and social harm
  • Social structure: practical rationality and compartmentalization
  • Conclusion: Where to now?
  • 7 Social Practices and Communities of Resistance
  • Introduction
  • Social harm: debates and issues
  • Aristotelianism
  • Social practices and communities of resistance
  • Resistance in practice
  • 8 Conclusion
  • References
  • Index