Resilience, infrastructure and the anti-social contract in neoliberal Britain
Resilience, infrastructure and the anti-social contract in neoliberal Britain
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新自由主义英国的复原力、基础设施和反社会契约
DOI：
10.1177/0308275x221120171
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发表时间：
2022
影响因子：
1.2
通讯作者：
Benjamin O. L. Bowles
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作者：
Benjamin O. L. Bowles
“弹性”是一个典型的新自由主义概念，从来就不是一个政治中立的话语，它的思想根源在于弗里德里希·哈耶克的著作和新自由主义经济学的诞生。然而，基础设施的复原力往往被视为一种技术官僚的、非政治性的考虑。本文认为，情况并非如此。使用收集的数据，在实地考察期间与英国政府内阁办公室就如何使基础设施的“弹性设计”的咨询，弹性话语被证明是一种工具，政府部门，监管机构和公司使社区越来越多地负责提供和维护自己的基础设施，同时证明服务故障是不可避免的。这是一个未被充分探索的话语战场，在新自由主义的社会契约重构为反社会的;关于企业实体的利润驱动的逻辑，由个人消费者的权利来平衡，而不再是关于“国家”和集体公民社会之间的关系。
‘Resilience’, a quintessentially neoliberal concept, has never been a politically neutral discourse, its intellectual roots situated in the work of Friedrich Hayek and the birth of neoliberal economics. Nevertheless, resilience in infrastructure is often cast as a technocratic, apolitical consideration. This article argues that this is not the case. Using data collected during fieldwork with the UK Government Cabinet Office during a consultation on how to make infrastructure ‘resilient by design’, resilience discourse is shown to be a tool with which government departments, regulators and companies make communities increasingly responsible for the provision and maintenance of their own infrastructure while justifying service failures as inevitable. This is an under-explored discursive battleground in the neoliberal reframing of the social contract as anti-social; concerning the profit-driven logics of corporate entities as balanced by the rights of individual consumers, and no longer about the relationship between ‘the state’ and a collective civil society.
新自由主义
DOI：
10.29164/20neolib
发表时间：
2020
期刊：
Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology
影响因子：
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作者：
Morningstar N
通讯作者：
Morningstar N