Assembling Neoliberalism

Vaughan Higgins is Associate Professor of Sociology at Charles Sturt University, Australia. His research encompasses the sociology of science and technology, and the sociology of agriculture and food. He is co-editor of Calculating the Social: Standards and the Reconfiguration of Governing with Wendy Larner.Wendy Larner is Provost at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.  Her research sits in the interdisciplinary fields of globalization, governance, and gender. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and the Academy of Social Sciences, UK.    ​

• 1. Introduction: Assembling Neoliberalism.- 2. Neoliberalism and Rule by Experts.- 3. Assuming Everything Except Responsibility: Can We Blame Economists for Neoliberalism?.- 4. Assembling Climate Expertise: Carbon Markets, Neoliberalism and Science.- 5. The Politics of Expertise: Neoliberalism, Governance, and the Practice of Politics.- 6. Assembling Citizenship in Austere Times.- 7. (Re)Assembling Neoliberal Logics in the Service of Climate Justice: Fuzziness and Perverse Consequences in the Fossil Fuel Divestment Assemblage.- 8. The Mouse that Died: Stabilizing Economic Practices in Free Trade Space.- 9. Mapping Neoliberalism: Animal Health and the Spatial Practices of Disease Management.- 10. Mapping Happiness, Managing Urban Emotions.- 11. Sharing Subjects and Legality: Ambiguities in Moving Beyond Neoliberalism.- 12. “Doing Good”: Affect, Neoliberalism, and Responsibilization Among Volunteers in China and the United States.- 13. The Resilient Subject.- 14. Economics, Experiments, Evidence: Poor Behavior and the Development of Market Subjects.- 15. Conclusion: Awkward Assemblages.