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The Hello and welcome to politics theory other. My name is Alex Doherty and this week I'll be talking with Catherine Rottenberg about the rise of

neoliberal feminism.

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My guest this week is Catherine Rotenberg.

Catherine is a Mary Sklodowsky Curie Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths and a senior

lecturer at Ben-Gurian University of the Negevin Israel. Her book, The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism,

will be published later this year by Oxford University Press. I began by asking Catherine

how she would define neoliberalism. Neoliberalism has totally become one of these buzzwords used so much and so often that it risks losing any kind of specificity. But I do use a very specific definition of neoliberalism. And I draw, in order to do that, I draw on political theorists like Michelle Faire and Wendy Brown.

And so basically, I don't understand neoliberalism as merely as an economic system or a set of economic policies that facilitate intensified privatization and deregulation.

I understand neoliberalism is what

Wendy Brown calls dominant political rationality or a normative form of reason that moves to and

from the management of the state to the inner workings of the subject. So neoliberal rationality

extends a specific formulation of economic values, economic practices,

and economic metrics to every dimension of human life.

And what the result of that is that it helps, neoliberalism helps transform human subjects into entrepreneurial

and capital enhancing agents. And I'll make this more concrete with a few examples in a second,

but just another way of thinking about it is that neoliberal, neoliberalism is, or

neoliberal rationality is, is a dominant regime of truth that recasts

everything and every element of our society on a contemporary business model.

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