Gregson Social Harm and Neoliberalism

The Problem of Ignorance
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5292-2363-7
Verlag: Bristol University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Studies in Social Harm

This book links criminological, political, moral, and philosophical issues to offer a deeper understanding of the problem of social harm within the neoliberal environment.

Illustrated through case studies, John Gregson shows that social harms are a problem created not only by politics or economics, states or corporations, but also by the individualism that neoliberal societies encourage. He argues that key factors that deepen the problem of social harm include the neoliberal production of ignorance and subjectivity, along with liberal modernity itself.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gregson, John

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: The Problem of Social Harm

2. Harm Causation and Sustainment

3. Ignorance, Social Harm, Neoliberalism

4. Agnotology and Crisis Narratives: Finance, Austerity and Health

5. Governmentality, Subjectivity, Agnotology

6. The Problem of Liberal Modernity

7. Social Practices and Communities of Resistance

8. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Gregson, John
John Gregson is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Leeds Beckett University.