Neoliberal Agency

This article addresses the challenges a neoliberal conception of agency poses to anthropologists. I first discuss the kind of self that a neoliberal agency presupposes, in particular a self that is a flexible bundle of skills that reflexively manages oneself as though the self was a business. I then...

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Published in:Current anthropology 2011-08, Vol.52 (4), p.537-555
Main Author: Gershon, Ilana
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agency
Alliances
Anthropological research
Anthropological theory
Anthropologists
Business risks
Corporate entities
Cultural anthropology
Cultural studies
Economic liberalism
Ethnography
Ethnology
Imagination
Neoliberalism
Self
Skills
Social epistemology
Social organization
Social reflexivity
Social theory
Sources and methods
Specific concepts
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