Neoliberalism and Subjectivity in Latin America

This book examines subjectivity and neoliberalism in Latin America. The chapters, first published in the journal Subjectivity, cover a range of topics, from work to childcare to violence to university education. In the Introduction, Julian Medina Zarate and Flavia Uchoa point out the complex history...

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Other Authors: Walkerdine, Valerie (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Neoliberalism and subjectivity in Latin America (Valerie Walkerdine)
  • Chapter 2. Why should we be interested in the specificity of subjectivity and neoliberalism in Latin America?(Julián Medina-Zárate, Flávia M. Uchôa de Oliveira)
  • Chapter 3. Masculine subjectivities and necropolitics: precarization and violence at the Mexican margins (Antar Martínez-Guzmán)
  • Chapter 4. Crisis and transformation of occupational identities in three sectors (retail, mining, state): contributions to understanding workplace subjectivities in neoliberal Chile (Antonio Stecher, Álvaro Soto Roy)
  • Chapter 5: Outsourcing and the growing precarity of psychologists’ work in social services in Brazil: repercussions for subjectivities (Mariana Prioli Cordeiro, Leny SatoFabio de Oliveira)
  • Chapter 6: Analysing the artefacts to produce an education of quality: from the disciple to the customer in a Colombian university (Hernán Camilo Pulido-Martínez)
  • Chapter 7: Being a parent and being a child inChile today: the relational construction of subject positions in a neoliberal context (Ana Vergara, Mauricio Sepúlveda, Irene Salvo)