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Format: Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 288
Utgivningsdatum: 2012-06-12
Förlag: University of Chicago Press
Illustrationer: 5 halftones
Dimensioner: 226 x 150 x 20 mm
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ISBN: 9780226545400

The Moral Neoliberal

Name: The Moral Neoliberal
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Author: Andrea Muehlebach
ISBN: 9780226545400

Welfare and Citizenship in Italy

av Andrea Muehlebach

Häftad, Engelska, 2012-06-12

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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 and love. Such interpretations pave the way for a mass mobilization of an ethical citizenry that is put to work by the state. Visiting several sites across the region, from Milanese high schools to the offices of state social workers to the homes of the needy, Muehlebach mounts a powerful argument that the neoliberal state nurtures selflessness in order to cement some of its most controversial reforms. At the same time, she also shows how the insertion of such an anticapitalist narrative into the heart of neoliberalization can have unintended consequences.

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"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 imperatives of what she terms 'ethical citizenship.' The results are breathtaking." (Douglas Holmes, State University of New York)"

Andrea Muehlebach is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto.