Interrogating the Neoliberal Lifecycle

Beverley Clack is Professor of Philosophy of Religion at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Her research applies feminist ideas to the philosophy of religion, and considering the uses of politics and psychoanalysis for a contemporary philosophy.Michele Paule is Senior Lecturer in Culture, Media and Education at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Her research explores discourses of gender and youth in educational and media contexts, particularly issues relating to girlhood and power.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Welcome to the Neoliberal Lifecycle!; Beverley Clack and Michele Paule.- Part 1: Childhood, Youth and Schooling. -  Chapter 2: Personal Moral Autonomy, Responsibility and Choice: Do We Know What Our Cultural Discourses Are Doing to Young People’s Mental Health?; Philippa Donald.- Chapter 3: Boys from the Bronx, Men from Manhattan: Gender, Aspiration and Imagining a (Neoliberal) Future After High School in New York City; Patrick Alexander.- Chapter 4: Girl Trouble: Not the Ideal Neoliberal Subject; Michele Paule. - Part 2: The University Under Neoliberalism.- Chapter 5: Paying for Success "Outside Your World": Antagonising Neoliberal Higher Education; Louise Livesey.- Chapter 6: Universities: The Neoliberal Agenda; Bob Brecher.- Part 3: Work, Success and Failure.- Chapter 7: Gender Equality, Austerity, Vulnerabilities and Resistance in the Spanish Neoliberal Lifecycle; Louise Grisoni and Sonia Ruiz.- Chapter 8: Towards a Manifesto: On the Love of Failure; Susan Crosier.- Chapter 9: "I Don't Want to Live Too Long!": Successful Ageing and the Failure of Longevity in Japan; Jason Danely. - Part 4: Death and Dying.- Chapter 10: Old Age and the Neoliberal Life Course; Susan Pickard.- Chapter 11: Death and Dying in "Third Way" Death Manuals: Shaping Life and Death after Neoliberalism; Beverley Clack.- Chapter 12: Afterword: Advice for a Life Beyond Neoliberalism?; Beverley Clack and Michele Paule.

“This edited volume makes for an important contribution in the fields of gerontology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology, the main focus of this volume was the first world. … this volume would benefit both academics as well as policymakers from a range of disciplines as it provides various alternative perspectives to the ‘good and successful life’ … .” (Jagriti Gangopadhyay, Anthropology & Aging, Vol. 42 (1), 2021)