What is Neoliberalism?

What is Neoliberalism? is a video by the Barnard Center for Research on Women, featuring interviews with Lisa Duggan, Miranda Joseph, Sealing Cheng, Elizabeth Bernstein, Dean Spade, Sandra K. Soto, Teresa Gowan, and Ana Amuchástegui. In the video, contributors describe the various meanings that have been attributed to the term "neoliberalism," the neoliberal economic policies developed through the IMF and the World Bank, and the usefulness of "neoliberalism" as an organizing rubric for contemporary scholars and activists. Drawing from research on immigration policy, the prison-industrial complex, poverty management, and reproductive rights, they sketch some of neoliberalism's intersections with gender, sexuality, race, class, and nation. Recorded Fall 2012.
What is Neoliberalism? was published in issue 11.1-11.2 of The Scholar & Feminist Online, "Gender, Justice, and Neoliberal Transformations." See the entire issue at sfonline.barnard.edu/gender-ju... for additional resources.

[@galumpha]

Lots of good points made, and also many new and fascinating hand-gestures introduced.

[@MsEricao]

Terry Koch lol@ new hand gestures

[@klytouch7515]

Anarchist neo_liberalism is our current world order and status QoS.. hmmm.. we must change.

[@Doverbeach32]

Very helpful and interesting. Thanks for posting

[@LauraVolpintesta]

“Pervasive ideas about who is deserving and who is not deserving”

[@caro_es]

This video doesn't explain neoliberalism so much as it further obfuscates it for the general public.

[@MerlynAStern]

Confuse the sheep...

[@aritragupta161]

When u r too deep into something, it becomes difficult for u to explain it in a simple fashion.

[@Alex-lt5ho]

@@aritragupta161 that just means you don’t understand it yourself enough. Don’t talk about something if your unable to explain it, or at least be ready for someone who does understand to absolutely demolish your beliefs.

[@luciatilyard2827]

It's just the legalisation of corporate theft.

[@RihannaIsIluminati]

Lucia Tilyard "Corporate theft". I'd call it an unfair concentration of resources by certain industries.. By definition, it can't be theft as it is conducted through voluntary exchange, but an argument could be made that industries in area of human necessity are essentially extorting people by use of their health.

[@djalals.moharrer5510]

I agree with you.

[@elizabethingram9784]

Excellent.

[@rdozzi]

Foucaultian implies Michel Foucault yes? Thanks!

[@LauraVolpintesta]

“Structural readjustment” anyone who has been through it feels the shudder run down the spine

[@caine4028]

Anyone else completely confused how this video can have over 98 thousand views, yet only 570 likes or just 80 dislikes??? That certainly won't trigger the algorithms to get this video noticed will it?

[@kaenise]

This video is often used academically, so not all these showings are getting a like or dislike

[@cs292]

Its conservative fiscal policy mixed with social liberal policy.. But in the end the conservative fiscal policy will start to destroy any social liberal policy because when you are starving and you schools are crumbling...its hard to be a social justice warrior.

[@vladimoros4360]

The title for this video should be: "Critics of Neoliberalism"

[@juancruzpinero1294]

Or "why neoliberalism is mostly related to statism, and is almost as far of liberalism as socialism"

[@pbealle1]

One tenured professsor after another instructing us on how to live properly. Enjoyable.

[@hashkeeper]

required perspectives

[@darrencheasley9130]

Brilliant ..ghastly..Herbert Spencer…William Graham Sumner…heirachy. Taught..learnt. Applied….historical roots (of course) thank you

[@MrDavidmatthews]

Karl Mocks - Brilliant satire! - "asynchronous, but occur at the same time."

[@leapsplashafrog]

Does anyone know?

[@juancruzpinero1294]

Sorry at 3:24, it's clarified how all definitions of neoloberalism refer to aspects of centralized planning econmy which is exactly opposite to free market

[@kingsley3208]

How so?

[@kelvinsmythe7476]

They're right because they make no sense and there's a bookshelf behind them. None of them would even know what the next is talking about.

[@aymonyaqoob9862]

What neo liberalism is i am not understanding this plz

[@pbealle1]

You are correct!

[@xasm83]

so economically active population in USA is 150M people, amount of imprisoned people is 1M and you are saying that understanding trends for less than 1% of population is a primary factor of understanding neo-liberalism as a cultural phenomenon? do you even do math when you research?

[@ajcrawshaw]

The speakers in this video have just taken an issue which all working people can agree is bad, the funneling of resources from the bottom to the top by legislative means, and made it partisan. Right wingers should hate neo-liberalism too. Its policies and ideas stop small business succeeding by strangling competition, and keeps people from being able to climb the ladder. It's a moving away from meritocracy to rewarding wealth. This video could've been so much better.

[@soronoc]

Neo-Audioenginaring, just do a bad job of it, the parallels are amazing!

[@katherinebroughton8311]

thank you so much!! this was very clear and intelligent! I haven't been able to find an explanation like this anywhere.

[@WJKPhD]

needs to clarify dif btn old Liberalism (individual responsibility, libertarianism), and "neo" Liberalism -- also, they all sound like academic American Liberals (semi-socialist) This was no help for me

[@queenstreetsystems]

pers ef 5:00

[@angelawho9083]

#AnnBarnhardt. @#FranAndAnn

[@matheme]

This was going okay until the one woman brings up Foucault lol.

[@djalals.moharrer5510]

The horrible bleeding ass Foucault .🤮🤮🤮

[@mankey10]

Great stuff, but please slow it down in the future haha, my pen can keep up in class but not with these people. Too much info too quick

[@amjunio]

Thank you for this video. Now I have the slightest idea what neoliberalism is about. I just started taking my master's. I hope to take a doctorate degree as well and to become as knowledgeable as these people...

[@aymonyaqoob9862]

Can u say me what actually neo liberalism mean. Plz in simple term

[@MerlynAStern]

So you can be as confused as them?

[@pbealle1]

Well put....

[@windmeza]

This has aged well.

[@stuartwray6175]

"The spectacular power of the pre disciplinary sovereigns" - off putting hermetic jargon, otherwise interesting insights.

[@MerlynAStern]

I am a small "c" conservative and strong free market advocate, and I resent being called a neo-liberal. I think the term is designed to confuse the sheep.

[@kingsley3208]

no matter your specific political identity, the current dominant and overarching socio-political system we alive under is neoliberalism.

[@gregorybaillie2093]

Nothing to do with sexuality I'm afraid this error added to the convoluted explanations I've been exposed to yet doesn't explain neoLiberal thought and economics. No mention of it's philosophical beginnings in 1870, no mention of Hayek, Meses, Friedman et al. This effort confuses the central issues.

[@doublenegation7870]

I'm an academic leftist and this embarrassing. It's no wonder people hate us. Enough with the identity bullshit and subjectivity.

[@freespeechliberal7036]

What I hear is a description of conservatism. Most people these days who use the term neoliberalism use it to describe center-left and moderate liberals.

[@djalals.moharrer5510]

Neoliberalism means recession every 20 years to destroy label and middle income taxpayers life.

[@jameshsu6364]

Neoliberalism is the left's way of saying anything to the right I don't like and the right's way of saying anything to the left I don't like. It holds little inherent meaning, rather it's a good indicator of the sociopolitical context and echo-chambers the speaker engages in.

[@angelawho9083]

#NotNews @#GeorgeHegel @#Favelas

[@travelerfinder7840]

Allot of this sounds like conservatism. What makes the two different?

[@vbkllr]

+Traveler Finder It's actually not much different at all, the main difference is that this was packaged to us by New Democrats like Bill Clinton in the 90's and sold to the public as leftist ideas. the sad truth is it's all the same thing :(

[@djalals.moharrer5510]

Just new name to cheat on the new tricks.

[@xasm83]

bravo, you definitely know how to pull sexism into any topic!

[@GnarlyBolt]

I heard a lot of generalizations and misrepresentations LOL

[@lexistoner]

+Brice Silva Care to be more specific?

[@maaaaaaaaarcel]

+Brice Silva Your statement is a gross generalization and misrepresentation in and of itself.

[@Nebukadnezzer]

+maaaaaaaaarcel Nuh uh...

[@olwethusilo7155]

😂

[@kelvinsmythe7476]

This is like a jump cut Marxism Fail compilation.

[@BraBo]

So.... None of these ppl actually know what it is!!!

[@Lysanderfication]

You guys are so lucky that you don't ask people for their money.

[@Pablo123456x]

The one with the jean jacket was a dude?

[@pbealle1]

That person is trans. www.deanspade.net/

[@djalals.moharrer5510]

She is not for men,in other word , she is a tranwomenator alike other participants.Hallelujah.😂😂😂

[@12bestskater12]

The only thing I have to disagree with is blaming politicians for expressing their opinions on family structure. It is not some huge conspiracy that people want parents to stick together, for single parents to have less kids, forgays to not adopt children. It has worked for the past few thousand years it will work for the future.

[@marcillioficino4663]

Sealing Cheng is demented and makes little sense.

[@BinanceUSD]

Lots of socialist talking jargon which is round about nonsense and is more socialism