Social Resilience in the Neoliberal Era [Paperback]

This book integrates institutional and cultural analysis to understand neoliberalism as a syncretic social process and to explore the sources of social resilience.This book analyzes the effects of neoliberalism, a global phenomenon dominating social and political life for more than thirty years. It takes an unusually broad view of neoliberalism, seeing it not only as a set of economic and political initiatives but as a movement that brought new logics into the heart of many spheres of social life, affecting the family, housing, definitions of self-worth, and many fundamental aspects of social relations. To understand how individuals and communities have responded to the movement, the book introduces the concept of social resilience and explores the factors that allowed some groups to sustain their well-being in the face of neoliberal challenges, while others suffered losses in the face of these new logics.This book analyzes the effects of neoliberalism, a global phenomenon dominating social and political life for more than thirty years. It takes an unusually broad view of neoliberalism, seeing it not only as a set of economic and political initiatives but as a movement that brought new logics into the heart of many spheres of social life, affecting the family, housing, definitions of self-worth, and many fundamental aspects of social relations. To understand how individuals and communities have responded to the movement, the book introduces the concept of social resilience and explores the factors that allowed some groups to sustain their well-being in the face of neoliberal challenges, while others suffered losses in the face of these new logics.What is the impact of three decades of neoliberal narratives and policies on communities and individual lives? What are the sources of social resilience? This book offers a sweeping assessment of the effects of neoliberalism, the dominant feature of our times. It analyzes the ideology in unusually wide-ranging terms as a molã"