Room K262, CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street
With authors Michèle Lamont and Peter Hall, and commentators Lisa Berkman (HSPH) and Diane Davis (GSD)
About
On the book:
What is the impact of three decades of neoliberal narratives and policies on communities and individual lives? What are the sources of social resilience? This book offers a sweeping assessment of the effects of neoliberalism, the dominant feature of our times. It analyzes the ideology in unusually wide-ranging terms as a movement that not only opened markets but also introduced new logics into social life, integrating macro-level analyses of the ways in which neoliberal narratives made their way into international policy regimes with micro-level analyses of the ways in which individuals responded to the challenges of the neoliberal era. The book introduces the concept of social resilience and explores how communities, social groups, and nations sustain their well-being in the face of such challenges. The product of ten years of collaboration among a distinguished group of scholars, it integrates institutional and cultural analysis in new ways to understand neoliberalism as a syncretic social process and to explore the sources of social resilience across communities in the developed and developing worlds.
Michèle Lamont is a Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies and the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies at Harvard University. She is a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and has co-directed its research program on Successful Societies since 2002.
Peter A. Hall is Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies and a Faculty Associate of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University, and Co-Director of the Program on Successful Societies for the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
Lisa Berkman is the Thomas Cabot Professor of Public Policy and of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Director, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies.
Diane Davis is Professor of Urbanism and Development at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
