Beyond Neoliberalism: Social Analysis after 1989 [Paperback]

This book explores how changes that occurred around 1989 shaped the study of the social sciences, and scrutinizes the impact of the paradigm of neoliberalism in different disciplinary fields. The contributors examine the ways in which capitalism has transmuted into a seemingly unquestionable, triumphant framework that globally articulates economics with epistemology and social ontology. The volume also investigates how new narratives of capitalism are being developed by social scientists in order to better understand capitalisms ramifications in various domains of knowledge. At its heart, Beyond Neoliberalism seeks to unpack and disaggregate neoliberalism, and to take readers beyond the analytical limitations that a traditional framework of neoliberalism entails.

PART I: Epistemic and Conceptual Shifts in the Wake of 1989

1. De-theorizing in order to Re-theorize Emergent Alignments. A Rumination

2. A Triple Movement? Parsing the Politics of Crisis after Polanyi

3. The Critique of Transitologist Discourse, or what is to be done with post?

4. A Fractured Globe: Anthropology and Narration after 1989

5. Postcolonial Criticism after 1989

6. Cash and Livelihood in Soft Currency Economies: challenges for research

7. Economic Anthropology, Islamic Finance, and the Limits of Capitalism

8. Religion and Secularism in Neoliberal Capitalism

9. The Last Men before the Last: a Russian messianic revival in the twilight of history

10. The End of Ideology? Re-conceptualizing Citil3