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What is neoliberalism? A form of market rule, a revanchist class project, an internalized form of economic rationality? It is a fuzzy and shifting signifier that defies efforts to reduce it to a singularity. This can make neoliberalism hard to define and discuss across contexts – from one time and place to another, or from one discipline or theoretical approach to another.

In this conversation with Jamie Peck, one of the most widely cited scholars of neoliberalism, we wade into these murky definitional waters, consider the origins of neoliberalism as well as its evolution, “actually-existing” forms, and variegation across space and time. We then turn to the current conjuncture to consider the relationship between neoliberalism, its imagined alternatives, and co-minglings with various strains of authoritarianism and populism. We conclude with reflections on neoliberalism’s continued applicability and potential futures as pandemic disease and economic crisis once again fuel speculation of its imminent demise.

Curators: Mark Kear (UArizona Geography) and David Gibbs (UArizona History)

Professor Jamie Peck is the Canada Research Chair in Urban & Regional Political Economy and Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He is an institutional political economist and economic geographer whose work covers a wide range of topics from urban restructuring and labor regulation to statecraft. A common concern in his work is the way that ostensibly global processes of neoliberalization are (re)made through local sites, distanciated networks, and grounded practices. He has authored and edited more than fifteen books, including Constructions of Neoliberal Reason (2013), Offshore (2017), Fast Policy (2015) and Workfare States (2001), along with scores of articles related to market-oriented governance.

The University of Arizona Sawyer Seminar "Neoliberalism at the Neopopulist Crossroads" is a cross-disciplinary, collaborative inquiry that re-examines prevailing theories of neoliberalism’s intellectual histories, political imaginations and cultural practices in light of the recent turn toward right-wing populisms around the world.

The seminar is organized around seven themes that offer a vantage point on the neoliberal/populist articulation: genealogies, media, borders, race, subjectivity, religion, and art. These vantage points are applied to three global border zones: North and Latin America, Europe and North Africa/Middle East, India and greater South Asia.

This program is generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.