Social Justice and Neoliberalism: Global Perspectives

by Adrian Smith (Editor), Alison Stenning (Editor), Katie Willis (Editor)

The continuing expansion of neoliberalism into ever more spaces and spheres of life has profound implications for social justice. Despite the number of policies designed to target 'social exclusion', people in many communities continue to be marginalized by economic restructuring.

Social Justice and Neoliberalism explores the connections between neoliberalism, social justice and exclusion. The authors raise critical questions about the extent to which neoliberal programmes are able to deliver social justice in different locations around the world. The book offers grounded, theoretically oriented, empirically rich analysis that critiques neoliberalism while understanding its material impacts. It also stresses the need to extend analyses beyond the dominant spheres of capitalism to look at the ways in which communities resist and remake the economic and social order, through contestation and protest but also in their everyday lives.

Global in scope, this book brings together writers who examine these themes in the global South, the former 'communist' East and the West, using the experience of marginal peoples, places and communities to challenge our conceptions of capitalism and its geographies.

224 pages, Paperback

First published November 15, 2008

About the author

Adrian Smith is Professor of Management at the University of Sussex Business School. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Editor-in-Chief of European Urban and Regional Studies, and was elected to the Academy of Social Sciences in 2007. He is a Visiting Professor at Queen Mary University of London and a member of the Centre on Labour and Global Production.