The Neoliberal Subject: Resilience, Adaptation and Vulnerability

by David Chandler and Julian Reid

Book Overview

Political practices, agencies and institutions around the world promote the need for humans, individually and collectively, to develop capacities of resilience. We must accept and adapt to the 'realities' of an endemic condition of global insecurity and to the practice of so-called sustainable development. But in spite of claims that resilience make us more adept and capable, does the discourse of resilience undermine our ability to make our own decisions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783487720
• ISBN13: 9781783487721
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"