Post-Soviet social : neoliberalism, social modernity, biopolitics
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Post-Soviet social : neoliberalism, social modernity, biopolitics
Princeton University Press, c2011
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-298) and index
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: hardcover ISBN 9780691148304
Description
The Soviet Union created a unique form of urban modernity, developing institutions of social provisioning for hundreds of millions of people in small and medium-sized industrial cities spread across a vast territory. After the collapse of socialism these institutions were profoundly shaken - casualties, in the eyes of many observers, of market-oriented reforms associated with neoliberalism and the Washington Consensus. In "Post-Soviet Social", Stephen Collier examines reform in Russia beyond the Washington Consensus. He turns attention from the noisy battles over stabilization and privatization during the 1990s to subsequent reforms that grapple with the mundane details of pipes, wires, bureaucratic routines, and budgetary formulas that made up the Soviet social state. Drawing on Michel Foucault's lectures from the late 1970s, "Post-Soviet Social" uses the Russian case to examine neoliberalism as a central form of political rationality in contemporary societies.
This book's basic finding - that neoliberal reforms provide a justification for redistribution and social welfare, and may work to preserve the norms and forms of social modernity - lays the groundwork for a critical revision of conventional understandings of these topics.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations and Tables ix Preface: Formal and Substantive xi Acknowledgments xv Chapter One: Introduction: Post-Soviet, Post-Social? 1 Part I: Soviet Social Modernity 31 Chapter Two: The Birth of Soviet Biopolitics 39 Chapter Three: City-building 65 Chapter Four: City-building in Belaya Kalitva 84 Chapter Five: Consolidation, Stagnation, Breakup 108 Part II: Neoliberalism and Social Modernity 127 Chapter Six: Adjustment Problems 139 Chapter Seven: Budgets and Biopolitics: On Substantive Provisioningand Formal Rationalization 162 Chapter Eight: The Intransigence of Things 202 Epilogue: An Ineffective Controversy 245 Notes 253 References 279 Index 299
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Description
The Soviet Union created a unique form of urban modernity, developing institutions of social provisioning for hundreds of millions of people in small and medium-sized industrial cities spread across a vast territory. After the collapse of socialism these institutions were profoundly shaken--casualties, in the eyes of many observers, of market-oriented reforms associated with neoliberalism and the Washington Consensus. In Post-Soviet Social, Stephen Collier examines reform in Russia beyond the Washington Consensus. He turns attention from the noisy battles over stabilization and privatization during the 1990s to subsequent reforms that grapple with the mundane details of pipes, wires, bureaucratic routines, and budgetary formulas that made up the Soviet social state. Drawing on Michel Foucault's lectures from the late 1970s, Post-Soviet Social uses the Russian case to examine neoliberalism as a central form of political rationality in contemporary societies.
The book's basic finding--that neoliberal reforms provide a justification for redistribution and social welfare, and may work to preserve the norms and forms of social modernity--lays the groundwork for a critical revision of conventional understandings of these topics.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations and Tables ix Preface: Formal and Substantive xi Acknowledgments xv Chapter One: Introduction: Post-Soviet, Post-Social? 1 Part I: Soviet Social Modernity 31 Chapter Two: The Birth of Soviet Biopolitics 39 Chapter Three: City-building 65 Chapter Four: City-building in Belaya Kalitva 84 Chapter Five: Consolidation, Stagnation, Breakup 108 Part II: Neoliberalism and Social Modernity 127 Chapter Six: Adjustment Problems 139 Chapter Seven: Budgets and Biopolitics: On Substantive Provisioningand Formal Rationalization 162 Chapter Eight: The Intransigence of Things 202 Epilogue: An Ineffective Controversy 245 Notes 253 References 279 Index 299
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