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The Moral Neoliberal
Andrea Muehlebach
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Description for The Moral Neoliberal
Paperback. Morality is often imagined to be at odds with capitalism and its focus on the bottom line. This title shows morality as the opposite: an indispensable tool for capitalist transformation. Series: Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning. Num Pages: 288 pages, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DST; JKS; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
Morality is often imagined to be at odds with capitalism and its focus on the bottom line, but in "The Moral Neoliberal" morality is shown as the opposite: an indispensable tool for capitalist transformation. Setting her investigation within the shifting landscape of neoliberal welfare reform in the Lombardy region of Italy, Andrea Muehlebach tracks the phenomenal rise of voluntarism in the wake of the state's withdrawal of social service programs. Using anthropological tools, she shows how socialist volunteers are interpreting their unwaged labor as an expression of social solidarity, with Catholic volunteers thinking of theirs as an expression of charity ... Read more
Morality is often imagined to be at odds with capitalism and its focus on the bottom line, but in "The Moral Neoliberal" morality is shown as the opposite: an indispensable tool for capitalist transformation. Setting her investigation within the shifting landscape of neoliberal welfare reform in the Lombardy region of Italy, Andrea Muehlebach tracks the phenomenal rise of voluntarism in the wake of the state's withdrawal of social service programs. Using anthropological tools, she shows how socialist volunteers are interpreting their unwaged labor as an expression of social solidarity, with Catholic volunteers thinking of theirs as an expression of charity ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226545400
SKU
V9780226545400
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About Andrea Muehlebach
Andrea Muehlebach is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto.
Reviews for The Moral Neoliberal
"The Moral Neoliberal is an outstanding book addressing with great precision and authority a decisive series of transformations unfolding in Italy and, by extension, across Europe. The ethnographic narrative is vibrant, the argumentation is crisp, and the analysis is persuasive. Andrea Muehlebach provides an alternative architecture of a 'moral neoliberalism' populated by engaged, reflexive subjects who are experimenting with the ... Read more