Disciplinary Neo-Liberalisation and the New Politics of Inequality



Tepe-Belfrage, Daniela ORCID: 0000-0001-6469-0555 and Nunn, Alex
(2022) Disciplinary Neo-Liberalisation and the New Politics of Inequality. The British Journal of Criminology: an international review of crime and society, 62 (5). pp. 1305-1322.

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Abstract

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Overlaps exist between critical Criminology and critical International Political Economy (IPE). However, while criminologists are keen to engage with political economy, there has been less interest in criminology from scholars in IPE. Recently, though, a literature started to emerge within IPE that focusses on discipline, including research which focusses on ‘authoritarian neoliberalism’ yet without explicitly engaging with the criminological literature. This paper engages with criminological research to demonstrate areas of shared interest, particularly in understanding the role of discipline and consent in the structuring of the ‘social ensemble’ thereby offering something of a corrective to the literature on ‘authoritarian neoliberalism’. We argue that combining insights from Gramscian and (critical) Feminist social theory can help to explain the social reproduction of ‘hegemony’ in which discipline – including self-discipline – plays an important role. Long-term trends in the fracturing of the hegemonic post-war social ensemble were displaced by temporary ‘fixes’ related to consumerism, credit and discipline (including in state institutions, changing economic and ideological structures). However, in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 – the limits of these fixes are revealed and social polarisation is the result. In this context, disciplinary processes in and beyond state institutions are becoming more visible.</jats:p>

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: discipline, critical political economy, hegemony, social reproduction, neoliberalism
Divisions: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Law and Social Justice
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 27 Oct 2021 08:30
Last Modified: 27 Nov 2023 03:31
DOI: 10.1093/bjc/azac034
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3141811