Partners in Crime? Neoliberalism and the Production of New Political Subjectivities (original) (raw)

The contributions in this publication individually and collectively address the contradictions and possibilities of political activism and its professionalization under the conditions of contemporary neoliberal capitalism. Each piece deals differently with the making of appropriate professional subjects and the contradictory ways they are placed in relation to an evolving neoliberalism. The authors show the skill-enhancing and effectiveness-increasing aspects of professionalization, but also the ways that this process-over a differentiated and shifting neoliberal context-also reins in, if not outright contains, its new subjects. This focus raises several interesting and disturbing questions for understanding the social, political and economic rela