The socio-political formation widely referred to as neoliberalism has seen a particular model of freedom – free markets, property rights, and entrepreneurial self-ownership – gain prominence in a variety of ways around the globe. The surge over recent years in critical activity around neoliberalism has resulted in an increasingly settled understanding of its political, economic, and cultural mechanics. Most critiques, however, have proven reluctant to engage neoliberalism on the territory that it has conspicuously made its own: namely, freedom. As David Harvey (2005: 183) writes in A Brief History of Neoliberalism, ‘What is so astonishing about the impoverished condition of contemporary public discourse … is the lack of any serious debate as to which of several divergent concepts of freedom might be appropriate to our times’. Freedom After Neoliberalism aims to stimulate such a debate. By addressing the representation of freedom in cultural texts produced and received in a range of local, national, and global contexts, the collection proposes to rethink the many meanings of freedom beyond its conception in neoliberal theory and practice, and sets out to imagine what freedom might look like in a world beyond neoliberalism.
This Special Collection is edited by Alexander Beaumont (York St John University) and Adam Kelly (York University).
Freedom After Neoliberalism
From Old to New Materialism: Rethinking Freedom after Neoliberalism
Matthew Mullins
2018-10-02 Volume 4 • Issue 2 • 2018 • 18
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Freedom and Formlessness: Ben Lerner’s 10:04 and the Affective Historical Present
Ralph Clare
2018-10-02 Volume 4 • Issue 2 • 2018 • 19
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Cosmopolitanism without a World? David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas
Alexander Beaumont
2018-10-02 Volume 4 • Issue 2 • 2018 • 21
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Freedom to Struggle: The Ironies of Colson Whitehead
Adam Kelly
2018-10-02 Volume 4 • Issue 2 • 2018 • 22
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Forms of Freedom in Pablo Larraín’s No and Neruda
Eugenio Di Stefano
2018-10-02 Volume 4 • Issue 2 • 2018 • 23
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Historicising Neoliberal Freedom: GB84 and the Politics of Historical Fiction
Christopher Vardy
2018-10-02 Volume 4 • Issue 2 • 2018 • 24
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Freedom after Neoliberalism
Alexander Beaumont and Adam Kelly
2018-10-02 Volume 4 • Issue 2 • 2018 • 25
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Special Collections
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Humour as a Human Right
Cultural Heritage Data for Research: Opening Museum Collections, Project Data and Digital Images for Research, Query and Discovery
Literature as Imaginary Archive: Ephemera and Modern Literary Production
Caliban's Mirror: Reflections of James Joyce and Oscar Wilde
Cultural Representations of Machine Vision
The Public Curatorship of the Medieval Past
Medieval Minds and Matter
Representing the Medieval in Popular Culture: Remembering the Angevins
The Politics and History of Menstruation: Contextualising the Scottish Campaign to End Period Poverty
Production Archives 03: Archival Practices
Production Archives 02: Production Contexts
Production Archives 01: Puppets for Action
Representing Classical Music in the Twenty-First Century
The Pathological Body: European Literary and Cultural Perspectives in the Age of Modern Medicine
Binary Modernisms: Re/Appropriations of Modernist Art in the Digital Age
Local and Universal in Irish Literature and Culture
Reading in Ruins: Exploring Posthumanist Narrative Studies
The Language of Perspective
Nancy Astor, Public Women and Gendered Political Culture in Interwar Britain
The Working-Class Avant-Garde
Colonialities in Dispute: Discourses on Colonialism and Race in the Spanish State
Powering the Future: Energy Resources in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Writers and Intellectuals on Britain and Europe, 1918–2018
Literature, Law and Psychoanalysis
Muslims in the Media
Encounters between Asian and Western Art in the 20th and 21st centuries: a liberating influence for Asia?
Waste: Disposability, Decay, and Depletion
Pride Revisited: Cinema, Activism and Re-Activation
New Approaches to Late Medieval Court Records
Utopian Art and Literature from Modern India
Right-Wing Populism and Mediated Activism: Creative Responses and Counter-Narratives
Representing Climate: Local to Global
Cultivating Spheres: Agriculture, Technical Communication, and the Publics
Freedom After Neoliberalism
The Medieval Brain
Remaking Collections
New Approaches to Medieval Water Studies
Imaginaries of the Future 01: Bodies and Media
Imaginaries of the Future 02: Politics, Poetics, Place
Imaginaries of the Future 03: Utopia at the Border
Postcolonial Perspectives in Game Studies
Station Eleven and Twenty-First-Century Writing
#Agreement20
What’s Left? Marxism, Literature and Culture in the 21st Century
New Voices in Jewish-American Literature
Authors, Narratives, and Audiences in Medieval Saints’ Lives
From TV To Film
American Literature & the Transnational Marketplace
Mnemosyne
Healing Gods, Heroes and Rituals in the Graeco-Roman World
The Abolition of the University