Post-Soviet social : neoliberalism, social modernity, biopolitics / Stephen J. Collier.

By:

Collier, Stephen J

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781400840427
1400840422
9786613101532
6613101532

Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Post-Soviet social.DDC classification:

330.947 22

LOC classification:

HC340.12 .C647 2011eb

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

Introduction : post-Soviet, post-social? -- Soviet social modernity -- The birth of Soviet biopolitics -- City-building -- City-building in Belaya Kalitva -- Consolidation, stagnation, breakup -- Neoliberalism and social modernity -- Adjustment problems -- Budgets and biopolitics : on substantive provisioning and formal -- Rationalization -- The intransigence of things -- Epilogue : an ineffective controversy.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-298) and index.

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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.

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