The Violence of Neoliberalism: Crime, Harm And Inequality

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This book examines the impact of neoliberalism on society, bringing to the forefront a discussion of violence and harm, the inherent inequalities of neoliberalism and the ways in which our everyday lives in the Global North reproduce and facilitate this violence and harm. Drawing on a range of contemporary topics such as state violence, the carceral state, patriarchy, toxic masculinity, death, sports and entertainment, this book unmasks the banal forms of violence and harm that are a routine part of life that usurp, commodify and consume to reify the existing status quo of harm and inequality. It aims to defamiliarize routine forms of violence and inequality, thereby highlighting our own participation in its perpetuation, though consumerism and the consumption of neoliberal dogma. It is essential reading for students across criminology, sociology and political philosophy, particularly those engaged with crimes of the powerful, state crime and social harm. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents Foreword Chapter 1 An introduction to the violence of neoliberalism: Crime, harm and inequality Crime versus harm? Our guiding theme and structure of the book Summary References Chapter 2 Neoliberalism, consumerism and the global market The harms of neoliberal consumption Theoretical frame The human cost of neoliberal market consumerism Conclusion Note References Chapter 3 Self-defense or neocapitalist rhetoric? Self-defense: the state, violence and the responsibility of the individual Conclusion Notes References Chapter 4 The commoditized spectacle: Sports, violence and entertainment Sports and consumption Sport, hyper-commodification and the spectacle Conclusion Note References Chapter 5 The cycle of oppression and inequality Theoretical framework ‘The’ refugee ‘The’ homeless ‘The’ immigrant—aka the illegal immigrant Summary thoughts Notes References Chapter 6 Neoliberalism as a tool and toolmaker in defining the value of the dead Defining the value of life and the dead Conclusion Notes References Chapter 7 Neoliberalism, the carceral state and violence The carceral logics of neoliberalism through nationalism, patriotism and the military Corporatized extension of the carceral state Surveillance is part of the carceral logics and governmentality Conclusion Note References Chapter 8 Neoliberalism and the selling of patriarchy The pervasiveness of the commodification and consumption of patriarchy: violence against women consumed Conclusion Chapter 9 The environmental death march: Destruction, greed, profit and consumption Climate change Trump, Republican rollbacks and priorities—symbolic or ignored responses to climate change Damn, we can’t blame it all on them? Conclusion References References Chapter 10 The silent role of non-profit organizations in the neoliberalism trap Non-profits: global and local carceral logics and the neoliberal trap Conclusion References Chapter 11 The commodification and illusion of resistance Resistance commodified Conclusion References Chapter 12 Concluding thoughts A way forward, backward, sideways or is there an end? References Index