... relations between Nordic noir and the welfare state as well as the less-noted role of neoliberal ideology in sponsoring critiques of the welfare state. It proposes that the genre acts out a rich and troubled dialogue between the welfare state, which is based on a rejection of the individual’s moral...

...Russ Castronovo By treating conservatism as a style of thought, this essay examines how a flair for abjuring the social contract, social welfare, socialism, indeed, society itself provides pleasure from the pain of violation and lost autonomy. The innovation of Ayn Rand’s writing is to make...

...Melinda Cooper This article questions the culturalist and civilizational taxonomies of postsecular theory by redirecting attention toward the practical consequences of public theology in the realm of neoliberal welfare reform. Tracing the simultaneous rise of faith-based welfare and the religious...

... of individuals' freedom and welfare underlay struggles for political power as well as for socioeconomic rights in the Chinese Revolution. The Chinese Revolution is fundamentally a rights struggle against the infringement of rights—traditional, territorial, property, and socioeconomic rights—by imperialist powers...

... inequality. The novel considers the relationship between the pianist Ryder's art and his apparent indifference to “deep-seated, intractable” social problems. Never Let Me Go explores the contradictions of the welfare state from the vantage point of a later neoliberal Britain: from here, despite those...

...Arne DeBoever This review essay critically assesses Peter Sloterdijk’s book Rage and Time (2006), starting from his more recent book on the welfare state, Die nehmende Hand und die gebende Seite (2010). Both of these texts are part of a by now extensive body of work—rooted in the thought...

...Marcia Landy The last decades of the twentieth century witnessed a restructuring of capital and redistribution of wealth to the top of an economic pyramid on an international scale. This neoliberal “reform” involves the gradual dismantling of the welfare state, relegation of the employed...

...” and “well-functioning” government as “one that makes no systematic errors of cognition, that is motivated to maximize the welfare of the whole polity, and that is as willing to increase liberty after an emergency has passed as it is willing to increase security when an emergency arises” (TB, 12). 220...

... toward global connectedness, and do so no matter what particular cultural vantage point one viewed the global connectedness from—such a concept is conceivable but is not an obvious . I discuss this in “Cosmopolitanism, America, and the Welfare State,” REAL: The Year- book of Research in English...

... enacts policies and initiatives to remove people in bad health. People are made to feel that they should be responsible for taking care of their own illnesses. For instance, the Minis- try of Health and Welfare has actually changed the name of the categories of diseases that emerge during...

..., Spain has, on the macropolitical level, progressively dismantled its welfare state. Neoliberal policies of privatization and austerity have been approved and even written into the Spanish Constitution in order to control high public spending. In this context, left-wing pragmatists are locked...

...- itly guarantees the organized articulation of interest to secure dynamic eco- nomic growth. And unlike within the capitalist market economy, it seeks to achieve general welfare and order through the administrative regulation of interest. The problem with corporatism is basically the problem...

... for the losses of security, shelter, welfare, and middle- class prosperity. Rather than lionizing Obama for having brought about a much- needed transformation in the forms of US political life, the Tea Party trans- muted him into the scapegoat onto whom they projected the surfeit of fear...

... (in the United States, privately owned com- panies) that are required by law to render adequate service at reasonable prices to all who apply. You know the examples—water, electricity, natural gas, and other services deemed essential to the public welfare. It is because these services are deemed essential...

...: Shanghai People’s Press, 2005), chap. 5. 18  boundary 2 / Summer 2008 institutions but were also social and political institutions. They provided not only job opportunities and salaries (or work points) to their members but also social welfare services (daycare, kindergarten, school, medical care...

... the Welfare State and into Post-capitalism, published simultaneously in Britain and the United States in 2000 by the Italian professor of pubic management Franco Archibugi. The basic point of the former gargantuan work of 1.23 million words is that a structural crisis and a structural transformation...

... body is the repository of labor power as a commodity that is freely and willingly exchanged for a wage to fulfill the individual’s human needs. Insofar as welfare policies shape the population by affecting birthrates, health, and distribution, gov- ernmental technologies thoroughly invest...

... of Michigan. He is the author of Regulating the Social: The Welfare State and Local Poli- tics in Imperial Germany (1993); Precoloniality: Ethnographic Discourse and ‘‘Native Policy’’ in the German Overseas Empire (Southwest Africa, Samoa, and Qingdao/ China) (forthcoming in 2005); and editor of State...

... . “ People ‘Conned’ by Stormont Welfare Deal .” Irish News , November 24 . McCabe Conor . 2013 . The Double Transition: The Economic and Political Transition of Peace . Belfast : ICTU/Labour After Conflict . McCann Eamonn . 2012 . “ Norman Baxter’s Long Crusade .” CounterPunch...

... Nakba foregrounds humanitarianism s dynamism with regard to global social changes and attendant transformations in normative conceptions of the human. In Palestine, humanitarianism began with the rationalization of need, infrastructure, and the management of populations, distribution, and welfare...