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Sovereignty, Norms, and Exception in Neoliberalism

Sovereignty, Norms, and Exception in Neoliberalism Sovereignty, Norms, and Exception in Neoliberalism thomas biebricher Neoliberalism and Sovereignty: An Odd Couple? Neoliberalism is notorious not only because of the various effects attributed to its continued “ecological dominance” as a real- world phenomenon but also because of the diffi culties in pinning it down conceptually. The meanings associated with the term vary between disciplines and subfi elds, supporters and critics, as well as political and scholarly contexts. As is well known, if the term neoliberal- ism is invoked at all in political debates, it is never used as a self- description but always refers to others, and as such it is usually intended to stigmatize them as egotistic market fundamentalists. That the term is easily instrumentalized for purely polemical pur- poses is in part due to the blurred, unfi xed contours of the concept of neoliberalism. For those who think of neoliberalism broadly along such market fundamentalist lines, the aim of this article, namely, to inquire into the notion of sovereignty as a particular aspect of neoliberalism’s political theory, may seem all but nonsensical. If neoliberalism can in effect be summed up as a creed of market fundamentalism and a commitment to “turbo- capitalism” that sweeps away http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences University of Nebraska Press

Sovereignty, Norms, and Exception in Neoliberalism

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Sovereignty, Norms, and Exception in Neoliberalism thomas biebricher Neoliberalism and Sovereignty: An Odd Couple? Neoliberalism is notorious not only because of the various effects attributed to its continued “ecological dominance” as a real- world phenomenon but also because of the diffi culties in pinning it down conceptually. The meanings associated with the term vary between disciplines and subfi elds, supporters and critics, as well as political and scholarly contexts. As is well known, if the term neoliberal- ism is invoked at all in political debates, it is never used as a self- description but always refers to others, and as such it is usually intended to stigmatize them as egotistic market fundamentalists. That the term is easily instrumentalized for purely polemical pur- poses is in part due to the blurred, unfi xed contours of the concept of neoliberalism. For those who think of neoliberalism broadly along such market fundamentalist lines, the aim of this article, namely, to inquire into the notion of sovereignty as a particular aspect of neoliberalism’s political theory, may seem all but nonsensical. If neoliberalism can in effect be summed up as a creed of market fundamentalism and a commitment to “turbo- capitalism” that sweeps away

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Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences – University of Nebraska Press

Published: Oct 9, 2014

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