Social Resilience in the Neoliberal Era

Assistant Professor of Government Peter A Hall, Professor of Sociology Michele Lamont, Michèle Lamont

Cambridge University Press, Aug 15, 2013 - Neoliberalism - 395 pages

What is the impact of three decades of neoliberal narratives and policies on communities and individual lives? What are the sources of social resilience? This book offers a sweeping assessment of the effects of neoliberalism, the dominant feature of our times. It analyzes the ideology in unusually wide-ranging terms as a movement that not only opened markets but also introduced new logics into social life, integrating macro-level analyses of the ways in which neoliberal narratives made their way into international policy regimes with micro-level analyses of the ways in which individuals responded to the challenges of the neoliberal era. The book introduces the concept of social resilience and explores how communities, social groups, and nations sustain their well-being in the face of such challenges. The product of ten years of collaboration among a distinguished group of scholars, it integrates institutional and cultural analysis in new ways to understand neoliberalism as a syncretic social process and to explore the sources of social resilience across communities in the developed and developing worlds.

About the author

Peter A. Hall is Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies at Harvard University and Co-Director of the Successful Societies Program for the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He is the author of Governing the Economy (1986) and more than seventy articles in comparative political economy. He is an editor of many books, including Changing France: The Politics that Markets Make (2006), Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage (2001), and The Political Power of Economic Ideas (1989).

Michele Lamont is Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and African and African-American Studies at Harvard University and Co-Director of the Successful Societies Program. She is the author of Money, Morals, and Manners (1992), The Dignity of Working Men (2000), How Professors Think (2009), and edited books such as Cultivating Differences (1992), The Cultural Territories of Race (1999), and Rethinking Comparative Cultural Sociology (2000). She is serving as Chair of the Council for European Studies.

Mich le Lamont is a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and is co-director of its research program on Successful Societies. Past responsibilities include chair of the Council for European Studies (2005 9) and senior advisor on Faculty Development and Diversity, Faculty of the Arts and Sciences, Harvard (2008 10). Professor Lamont has published on the topics of inequality, culture, race, immigration, knowledge, theory, qualitative methods, and comparative sociology. She taught at Princeton University for fifteen years before moving to Harvard in 2003. She is the author of more than 80 articles and a dozen of books and edited volumes, including How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment, The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration (winner of the C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems), and Money, Morals and Manners: The Culture of the French and the American Upper-Middle Class. Her research has been supported by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, the Center for Advanced Research in the Behavioral Sciences, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the Institute for Advanced Studies, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Lilly Endowment, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, and the Russell Sage Foundation.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Social Resilience in the Neoliberal Era
• Editors: Assistant Professor of Government Peter A Hall, Professor of Sociology Michele Lamont, Michèle Lamont
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2013
• ISBN: 1299771971, 9781299771970
• Length: 395 pages