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Neoliberal Multiculturalism?

Kymlicka, Will·2013·Social Resilience in the Neo-Liberal Era
DOI 10.1017/cbo9781139542425.007
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The era of neoliberalism is often defined as a set of changes in economic policy and in economic relationships, many of which created new challenges and insecurities for individuals. But it also reshaped the structure of social relationships, including relationships in the family, workplace, neighborhood, and civil society. It may even have reshaped people's subjectivities – their sense of self, their sense of agency, and their identities and solidarities (Brown 2003). According to its most severe critics, the cumulative impact of these changes is a radical atomization of society. In the name of emancipating the autonomous individual, neoliberalism has eroded the social bonds and solidarities upon which individuals depended, leaving people to fend for themselves as “companies of one” in an increasingly insecure world (Lane 2011). Yet the modern world is hardly devoid of social bonds and collective identities. Wherever neoliberal reforms have been implemented, they have operated within a dense field of social relationships that conditions the impact of neoliberalism. If neoliberalism has shaped social relations, it is equally true that those relations have shaped neoliberalism, blocking some neoliberal reforms entirely while pushing other reforms in unexpected directions, with unintended results. In the process, we can see social resilience at work as people contest, contain, subvert, or appropriate neoliberal ideas and policies to protect the social bonds and identities they value.

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  • Multiculturalism arose in the 1960s, well before the era of neoliberalism, and was rooted in a social democratic impulse, defended as a natural extension of civil rights struggles and citizenship struggles.

    “Multiculturalism arose in the 1960s, well before the era of neoliberalism, and was rooted in a social democratic impulse, defended as a natural extension of civil rights struggles and citizenship struggles.”

    From Solidarity in diverse societies: beyond neoliberal multiculturalism and welfare chauvinism (2015) · cites this paper as Kymlicka, 2013

  • The story that multiculturalism emerged as a technique of neoliberal governance is demonstrably wrong as an account of the genealogy of multiculturalism.

    “I have elsewhere argued that this story is demonstrably wrong as an account of the genealogy of multiculturalism (Kymlicka, 2013).”

    From Solidarity in diverse societies: beyond neoliberal multiculturalism and welfare chauvinism (2015) · cites this paper as Kymlicka, 2013

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Authors
Kymlicka, W.
Corresponding author
Kymlicka, Will
ORCID
Kymlicka, Will
Venue
Social Resilience in the Neo-Liberal Era
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Published
2013-05-05
Pages
99-126
DOI
10.1017/cbo9781139542425.007
OpenAlex
W1569710134
Cited by
138
References
27
Citations by year
2026: 6 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 17 · 2019: 18 · 2018: 12 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 1
FWCI
35.78
Type
book chapter
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Globalization and political ideologies
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Anthropological Studies and Insights
Keywords
neoliberalism, multiculturalism, social bonds, collective identity, social resilience, atomization, interpersonal relationships, subjectivity, identity politics, civil society

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