Author： Segal Jacob
Publisher： Routledge Ltd
ISSN： 1469-9931
Source： New Political Science, Vol.28, Iss.3, 2006-09, pp. : 323-334
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Abstract
Using poststructuralist theory as a backdrop, this article demonstrates how the neo-liberal discourse of freedom becomes a method of normalization and domination. It shows how this tendency is apparent in the theory and practice of neo-liberalism, in the work of F.A. Hayek and in the public policy of welfare reform of the self-proclaimed “new paternalists,” respectively. This article links the normalizing tendency of neo-liberalism with the “futureness” of the neo-liberal demand that free agents be “effective.” The article presents the foil of a poststructuralist account of freedom that is present-orientated and so non-normalizing.
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