The Neoliberal Project and the Rise of Populist Nationalism: Ideology and Development since 1991
A special issue of Societies (ISSN 2075-4698).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2023) | Viewed by 3606
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
All probably agree that the core telos of the neoliberal imaginary contrasts with the practical emergence of regressive and authoritarian populist nationalism. The neoliberals themselves portray nationalism as a backwardly dangerous and authoritarian anti-neoliberal force, diametrically alien to what they see as their project: to make a cosmopolitan global market civilization. Some neoliberalism scholars accept that nationalism and neoliberalism are generically unrelated, but they observe how the cosmopolitan neoliberal project is nonetheless mutating towards movements that are incorporating state, capital and popular movements in nationalist coalitions.
In another view, even though in contradiction with its core mission, competitive national rivalries are seen to be inscribed in the neoliberal model of development’s core trajectory. Its wrap-over veil of cosmopolitan ideology hiding its regressive nationalist tendency are actually the contradictory expressions of the neoliberal model of development’s national-trans-national dynamic that turns countries into ‘competition states’. For a progressive form of nationalism to emerge would require a different model of world development that could turn countries into ‘cooperation states’.
This special edition of Societies seeks contributions that investigate aspects of this complex and contested relationship between nationalism, populism and neoliberalism. It also invites contributors to consider alternatives. Contributions have to follow one of the three categories of papers—article, conceptual paper or review—of the journal.
Dr. David Neilson
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- neoliberalism
- nationalism
- populism
