Paradoxes of Neoliberalism

Paradoxes of Neoliberalism is a video by the Barnard Center for Research on Women, featuring interviews with Sealing Cheng, Lisa Duggan, Dean Spade, Elizabeth Bernstein, Miranda Joseph, Sandra K. Soto, Teresa Gowan, and Kate Bedford. As Professor Cheng describes in the video's opening sequence, the economics and politics of neoliberalism are riddled with paradoxes and contradictions. Commentators draw on their research to focus on three central paradoxes of neoliberalism: its combination of emphasis on value-free economics and intensive moral regulation, its uneven distribution of risk and security, and its simultaneous creation of heightened social inequalities and intensified human rights discourses and humanitarian interventions. They trace these contradictions across domains ranging from war and peace to investment and trade to financial markets to prevailing understandings of empowerment and freedom. Recorded Fall 2012.
Paradoxes of 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.

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  • @stephanealegoria7016
    @stephanealegoria70166 жыл бұрын

    There is another paradox emerging from neoliberalism in my opinion: since corporations control more and more the state and impose regulations to protect corporations against social laws the people consider more and more the state to be the cause of their problem and do not see the cause of their misfortune, and Call even more for social deregulation and more "free competition "

  • @julesjules5439

    @julesjules5439

    3 жыл бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/iqury7t6YdCXdto.html

  • @julesjules5439

    @julesjules5439

    3 жыл бұрын

    Goes along with your point I believe

  • @majestycrush
    @majestycrush3 жыл бұрын

    Her voice is sooo relaxing

  • @eottoe2001
    @eottoe20015 жыл бұрын

    Barnard Center for Research on Women -- thank for posting this. I have been wondering for a long time why women have not been willing to step up to the plate concerning neoliberalism and neocolonialism. We had the tax reductions in December 2017 and that to me was a women's issue as well as a people issue but there was silence from women and women politicians. In my readings, it seemed so many women have a very corporate view on economics with no current day Alice Pauls to be seen. Outside of Naomi Klein there has been a real truth embargo on women and economics. This was really hopeful. Thanks again.

  • @david8157
    @david81578 жыл бұрын

    So let's sum up - amoral, selfishness, paranoia and tyranny sounds like a perfect ideology for sociopaths

  • @ajelmore1995

    @ajelmore1995

    3 жыл бұрын

    lol You got me laughing on that comment, myyyyyy goodness. Too funny to glance down and see that.

  • @flici0us
    @flici0us3 жыл бұрын

    The body language here is strong and I'm living for it! This place has such great minds and eloquent spirits. What a dream for an academic. :)

  • @andreewing05
    @andreewing059 жыл бұрын

    Intellectual. Great analysis which concur with my study on the subject. One of the most important topics of our time. A subject though which is highly opaque and camouflaged to the masses of society. Therefore it is hard to create the level of consciousness and discussion about it because people are thinking about "other things". And as Anthony Sutton quoted the book "The Struggle Against The Historical Blackout" - "Even the great Rockefeller Foundation frankly admits (Annual Report 1946, p. 188) the subsidizing of corps of historians to anticipate and frustrate the development of any neo-Revisionism in our time." Thank you ladies for your forthrightness.

  • @iceydaywalker9198

    @iceydaywalker9198

    7 жыл бұрын

    this was quite a clumsy comment. perhaps english isn't your first language. nice insight though... i suppose.

  • @amalija11

    @amalija11

    6 жыл бұрын

    Well said Andre!! Ryan, 0/10.

  • @khubza8999

    @khubza8999

    Жыл бұрын

    @@iceydaywalker9198 THAT was an unnecessary personal attack. Deal with the substance and not the manner.

  • @cukeumberr
    @cukeumberr Жыл бұрын

    pretty sure there's a mistake in the subtitles at 1:43. instead of "more resources [and] international security", it sounds like "more resources into national security", which would make more sense in the line of thinking.

  • @cptsky47
    @cptsky473 жыл бұрын

    What a great job you have done in your video to make understood what neoliberalism really is and how it works for the rich and dehumanizes the poor and lower-middle class. Thanks, I now understand the world in a much deeper way.

  • @nomenestomen8952
    @nomenestomen89523 жыл бұрын

    5:59 For me the most important thought and observation: right in the moment where everyone declared "equal" under the law a process of wars, mass criminalization of groups of people nationally and internationally etc., sexism, racism etc. intensified

  • @tomover9905
    @tomover9905 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for posting this talk

  • @CommunistConsensus
    @CommunistConsensus4 жыл бұрын

    Consensus building societies, often labeled as matriarchal, were overrun by the hierarchical alpha sociopath societies. Curtailing the adult status of those unwilling to respect the consensus building without coercion would be the foundational goal of getting to an egalitarian society. We need not suffer bullies, at all.

  • @juicyparsons
    @juicyparsons3 жыл бұрын

    See you all kinda broke it down best I've seen so far I been looking at liberalism intro videos and these white leftist dudes are decent at explaining why it's not economically sustainable but y'all are way better breaking down how the application of neoliberalism actually effects/harms our social relationships as well. Thanks for clarifying ✊🏾

  • @bashisobsolete.pythonismyn6321
    @bashisobsolete.pythonismyn63212 жыл бұрын

    As a European, the American themes and language are not so easy to follow. However, Chang mentioned the paradox of American individualism, which I am aware of. Maybe Americans should pursue a local community lifestyle that borrows from various traditions. That traditional approach seems to offer what people want; Greater self governance. Closer involvement and better negotiating power with the state. A more active role in nation building.

  • @MazBringsby
    @MazBringsby4 жыл бұрын

    Good. A fair elaboration.

  • @igotbluesdevils
    @igotbluesdevils5 жыл бұрын

    This lady, Dr. Cheng, has a beautiful way of moving her hands. Other than, obviously, she has some great points.

  • @jps3331
    @jps33315 жыл бұрын

    Great work

  • @JoeCiliberto
    @JoeCiliberto6 жыл бұрын

    I disagree with Professors Bernstein's declaration of what freedom is. She describes instead liberties (just doing anything at all).

  • @javierfernandez1126
    @javierfernandez11267 жыл бұрын

    If not the most important, one of the most important contradictions in capitalism is the fact that one the one hand, employers try to pay their workers at least as it is possible (for example outsourcing, offshoring, etc.) but on the other hand, it would be ideal if every "other" employer paid the most to theirs (so that there could be enough purchasing power to buy the things they are producing). We see that with the US right now, most companies are offshoring to poor countries but selling in rich countries because there is where people gain enough to buy the things they are producing. The next step is automation, but clearly there will be a moment where this contradiction will not be able to develop further since people will not have enough money to pay even for very cheap automaticly produced goods.

  • @JoeCiliberto
    @JoeCiliberto6 жыл бұрын

    So 1 - Paradox discussed neoliberal morality (or amorality) so to go to war. Going to war is a neoconservative principle. A neoliberal who goes to (or in President Obama's case stays in a few) war is using neoconservative thinking to achieve neoliberal goals. Neoconservatives have war as necessary and essential means to achieve neoconservative goals (Bush II/Cheyney).

  • @philwohlrab7588

    @philwohlrab7588

    9 ай бұрын

    Hayek wrote in his 1956 preface to Road to Serfdom not to confuse liberals with conservatives, and that a conservative government was bound to be a defender of established privilege, and would lean on government for protection of privilege, while the (neo) liberal position would be the denial of all privilege. Privilege, being the state granting rights and protections to some which are not available to others on equal terms.

  • @JoeCiliberto
    @JoeCiliberto6 жыл бұрын

    As I listen to Prof Cheng I am not hearing (although she is saying) paradoxes, I am hearing the neoliberal sales pitch in some of her comparisons, differences between neoliberal and neoconservative in others, and true paradox within neoliberalism. I am not accusing her of doing these things, I am interpreting them as I hear her speak. The fault is mine, as over the last several years purveyors, disciples, and fence sitters have used neoliberal and neoconservative terms and principles to dynamically adjust to what is necessary to win and/or to suit their agendas.

  • @MA-mk9rl

    @MA-mk9rl

    5 жыл бұрын

    Joe Ciliberto isn’t neo-conservatism symptomatic of neo-conservatism?

  • @MA-mk9rl

    @MA-mk9rl

    5 жыл бұрын

    Joe Ciliberto it’s not about winning. It’s about having a conversation on political theory

  • @thosethatcan
    @thosethatcan Жыл бұрын

    so are these people in a union. . hey 2013~? whoa

  • @215Gallagher
    @215Gallagher5 жыл бұрын

    Over six years have passed and things have only got worse, the trajectory is not reassuring.

  • @strega1380
    @strega13803 жыл бұрын

    thanks youtube, could've used this video years ago

  • @peterohman8469
    @peterohman84696 жыл бұрын

    Paradox’s is a very very nice way to say the stupidity of neoliberalism. The rate of incarceration in the USA reminds me of Stalinist Soviet Union.

  • @spranzanakuya1936
    @spranzanakuya19363 жыл бұрын

    IAM PHD,I FEEL THIS INTERVIEW RELEVANT TO MY INTERPRETATION OF NEOLIBERALISM

  • @modelsfirst
    @modelsfirst5 жыл бұрын

    Audio is too quiet!

  • @katherinebroughton8311
    @katherinebroughton83117 жыл бұрын

    Can anyone explain "rational market principles" to me?

  • @jonathanhoward9533

    @jonathanhoward9533

    7 жыл бұрын

    Katherine Broughton "Rationality" is typically defined as gathering information prior to making a decision.

  • @javierfernandez1126

    @javierfernandez1126

    7 жыл бұрын

    I think they are referring to a little bit more broad meaning of the term, several "rational principles" come to my mind: - Every individual is an informed, economically self maximizing entity. Always looking to make the most with the least money. - The law of supply and demand works perfectly, therefore the price of every good is what it is supposed to be (because if it was more than it ought to be, demand would lower and price would go down, and, if it was less than it ought to be, demand would go up and therefore price would go up with it). - Because the price of everything is what it is ought to be, the wealth of every citizen is a direct measure of its economic value and therefore it is justified. - Based on the two previous points, we can conclude that ALL government intervention in the market is harmful because it is altering this precious cycle of self regulating/optimizing of economic value and production.

  • @policeaccountabilityreport

    @policeaccountabilityreport

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@javierfernandez1126 excellent answer!

  • @grayarcana
    @grayarcana8 жыл бұрын

    What hPpened to the Wichita Line Man's pension?

  • @coier1
    @coier14 жыл бұрын

    20 mins about Neoliberalism without mentioning capitalism once :thinking:

  • @sachingangadhar.s2783
    @sachingangadhar.s27833 жыл бұрын

    South park season 19

  • @thosethatcan
    @thosethatcan Жыл бұрын

    9:25 hello

  • @freespeechliberal7036
    @freespeechliberal70366 жыл бұрын

    Again, they are talking about conservatism. If neoliberalism is another word for right wing capitalism, why do so many people use the term to describe liberals who are not socialists?

  • @samalibanerjee7371

    @samalibanerjee7371

    2 жыл бұрын

    mostly because neoliberalism was a term coined by left-wing scholars, in an incisively critical manner. to put it across even more bluntly, the objective was an articulate mockery of the system, hence "liberal". hope that this sheds some light on the matter.

  • @JoeCiliberto
    @JoeCiliberto6 жыл бұрын

    Gosh, I am lost.....just before the nine minute mark. The concern for, antagonism of, assumptions about, and actions toward sex workers really gets convoluted here with the twists of whether neoliberalism is amoral or not. Wow, no wonder schools don;t teach, students don't learn, human trafficking proliferates and mutual respect is generalized for all based on the most unhinged set of sensitivities.

  • @huksmass4696
    @huksmass46966 жыл бұрын

    I think the paradoxes are better explained by how the word “neoliberalism” is a blanket term used to describe multiple things. To assert that free market open borders is used to justify anti immigrant attitude just shows you don’t really know what you are talking about and instead creating a narrative where you can position yourself opposed to a jumble of things you put in a box

  • @konfunable

    @konfunable

    5 жыл бұрын

    Exactly. Neoliberalism is literally for immigration, not against it.

  • @MA-mk9rl

    @MA-mk9rl

    5 жыл бұрын

    Huk Smass it actually shows that you don’t know what you’re talking about and know nothing about political theory. You should read up with an unbiased perspective, draw your own conclusions, and come back and decide weather or not you’d like to have the skill to engage in discourse surrounding political theory or not. I hope you enjoy it.

  • @derekdiamond846
    @derekdiamond8467 жыл бұрын

    I need a beer.

  • @patrickvernon4766
    @patrickvernon476627 күн бұрын

    Rhetoric around borders and cultures because there is no borders but the policy is national ethnic replacement. Think about it through

  • @BinanceUSD
    @BinanceUSD7 ай бұрын

    It's disheartening to see individuals discussing economic matters confidently, despite lacking a background in economics. When you delve deeper into their statements, like 'the rich getting richer whilst..,' it becomes apparent that they may not have a comprehensive understanding of economic principles." 😔

  • @RicardoSilva-hk2er
    @RicardoSilva-hk2er7 жыл бұрын

    Fail! you need to define a principle before you attack it. There like radical 5 definition of neoliberalism, which one are you talking about.

  • @amieparry2950

    @amieparry2950

    6 жыл бұрын

    that was actually the subject of the first video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/aZ-AltJsnM_TeM4.html

  • @MA-mk9rl

    @MA-mk9rl

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ricardo Silva no they don’t this is for people who know what neo-liberalism is and it’s a discussion presented as neo-liberal critique. Either learn about it or don’t engage in it.

  • @allgoo1964

    @allgoo1964

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ricardo Silva says: "There like radical 5 definition of neoliberalism, which one are you talking about." == neoliberalism is not even -ism or theory. It's a wish. What they are trying to do by bringing up -ism that gives an impression that there's ideology behind it. There isn't. Definition of neoliberalism is desire for maximum profit and what looks like theory behind it is actually an excuse. "Socialsim didn't work." is not a way to justify neoliberaism unless they can point to the period neoliberalism actually worked.

  • @udz39
    @udz397 жыл бұрын

    Gosh, such a load of BS. Only the british Lady has a interesting point. The rest.... omg.

  • @MA-mk9rl

    @MA-mk9rl

    5 жыл бұрын

    Daniel Natal that is what a paradox means. You guys realize this is theoretical critique and discussion not a class that you learn theory from. You should read up on theory, think for yourself, and draw your own conclusions. Not a non-conclusion based on being triggered by bringing gender into it when gender does matter..

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