Beyond Neoliberalism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Beyond Neoliberalism? Social Analysis after 1989

   • Marian Burchardt, Gal Kirn

   Pages 1-14

3. Epistemic and Conceptual Shifts in the Wake of 1989

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. De-theorizing in Order to Re-theorize Emergent Alignments: A Rumination

      • Saskia Sassen

      Pages 17-27

   3. A Triple Movement? Parsing the Politics of Crisis after Polanyi

      • Nancy Fraser

      Pages 29-42

   4. A Critique of Transition Studies on Postsocialism, or How to Rethink and Reorient 1989? The Case of (Post)Socialist (Post)Yugoslavia

      • Gal Kirn

      Pages 43-68

   5. A Fractured Globe: Anthropology and Narration after 1989

      • Ajay Gandhi

      Pages 69-81

   6. Postcolonial Criticism after 1989: A Conversation with Gal Kirn and Marian Burchardt

      • Dipesh Chakrabarty

      Pages 83-94

4. New Narratives of Capitalism: Interrogating Knowledge Production and Ethnography

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95

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   2. Cash and Livelihood in Soft Currency Economies: Challenges for Research

      • Jane I. Guyer

      Pages 97-116

   3. Rationality, Risk, Uncertainty, and Islamic Finance

      • Bridget Kustin

      Pages 117-134

   4. Religion and Secularism in Neoliberal Capitalism

      • Marian Burchardt

      Pages 135-154

   5. The Last Men before the Last: A Russian Messianic Revival in the Twilight of History

      • Dominic Martin

      Pages 155-179

   6. The End of Ideology? Reconceptualizing Citizenship and Culture in a Post-(political) Place World

      • Bree T. Hocking

      Pages 181-199

   7. Humanitarianism after the Cold War: The Case of Haiti

      • Pierre Minn

      Pages 201-214

   8. The Uneasy Relationship between “China” and “Globalization” in Post-Cold War Scholarship

      • Julie Michelle Klinger

      Pages 215-233

   9. New Human Rights Theories for Post-Constitutional Societies

      • Ingo Richter

      Pages 235-255

   10. 1989/91 as a Caesura in the Study of History: A Personal Retrospective

       • Jürgen Kocka

       Pages 257-269

5. Back Matter

   Pages 271-279

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This book explores how changes that occurred around 1989 shaped the study of the social sciences, and scrutinizes the impact of the paradigm of neoliberalism in different disciplinary fields. The contributors examine the ways in which capitalism has transmuted into a seemingly unquestionable, triumphant framework that globally articulates economics with epistemology and social ontology. The volume also investigates how new narratives of capitalism are being developed by social scientists in order to better understand capitalism’s ramifications in various domains of knowledge. At its heart, Beyond Neoliberalism seeks to unpack and disaggregate neoliberalism, and to take readers beyond the analytical limitations that a traditional framework of neoliberalism entails.
This book is a result of discussions at and support from the Irmgard Coninx Fundation. 

• Postmodernity
• Globalization
• Transitology
• Capitalism
• Cold War
• Capital
• Politics
• Secular

“This will prove to be a landmark volume not only for the historical and political sociology of post-communist Europe but for wider academic understanding of neoliberal capitalism. The transmutation of global capitalism is provocatively assessed by a host of leading voices that has been assembled here to reflect on the local instances of a networked crisis. That novel predicament demands a new conceptual vocabulary and a new approach to the methods of social science. This rich and stimulating book offers a massive contribution to both.” (Paul Gilroy, King’s College, London, England)

“The authors of the present volume ¬ an impressive array of thinkers from various disciplines and continents ¬ assess the significance of 1989 on social theory and challenge, [notably] thanks to [vivid] ethnographic studies, the concepts we, as social scientists and citizens, use to describe the world we live in. Seldom has ethnography been put to such a stimulating contribution.” (Barbara Thériault, Université de Montréal, Canada)

“This provocative collection examines the complex and contradictory effects of the end of the Cold War on social theory, scholarship, and academic discourse in a variety of fields. Some of the contributions also analyze today's neoliberal capitalism, and forms of resistance to it, and dare to imagine social life beyond neoliberalism. This volume will interest anyone interested in the social and intellectual legacies of "1989" and the nature of the present era.” (Jeff Goodwin, New York University, USA)

• Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany

  Marian Burchardt

• Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin, Germany

  Gal Kirn

Marian Burchardt is a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany. He is also the author of Faith in the Time of AIDS: Religion, Biopolitics and Modernity in South Africa (2015), and is a co-editor of Multiple Secularities Beyond the West (2015), After Integration (2015), and Topographies of Faith (2013). 



Gal Kirn is a Humboldt postdoctoral fellow at Humboldt University, Germany. He is also the author of Ruptures and Contradictions of Market Socialism (2015), and is a co-editor of Encountering Althusser (2012), Yugoslav Black Wave Cinema and its Transgressive Moments (2012), and Postfordism and its Discontents (2010).
 

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