Neoliberalism at the Neopopulist Crossroads

The seminar is organized around seven themes that offer a vantage point on the neoliberal/populist articulation: genealogies, media, borders, race, subjectivity, religion, and art. These vantage points are applied to three global border zones: North and Latin America, Europe and North Africa/Middle East, India and greater South Asia.

This Sawyer Seminar is generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

About the Project

Lectures & Seminars

Video

Contradictory Cohabitations?
Neoliberalism and Populism Across Space and Time

Jamie Peck

Authoritarian and Democratic Times + Critical Theory before Neoliberalism

Massimiliano Tomba

& Banu Bargu

Centering the Endowment in the Contemporary University and the Rise and Fall of the Humanities in the Age of Davos Man
Lecture at 3:00 pm, ML 453

Catherine Liu

The White Counter Reformation +
Zone Fever: On the Far Right's Capitalism

Elizabeth Povinelli

+ Quinn Slobodian

"Race and Capitalism: Some Definitional Problems”

Christopher Chen

The Millenial Pivot: From Globality to Planetarity

Mary Louise Pratt

Video

The Lure of Fascism
Algorithmic Neoliberalism and the World-System of Large-Scale Customization

Stephen Shapiro

Video

Populism as Political Theology

William T.S. Mazzarella

Dynastic Capitalism and the Far Right Resurgence

Melinda Cooper

Video

Gore Capitalism
Borderization and Live Regime

Sayak Valencia

Video

Genealogies of Populism
Reflections on Popular Sovereignty Today

Partha Chatterjee

Populism, Majoritarian States, and South Asia Today
Absolute Nationalism & Hindutva Inversions

Angana P. Chatterji

Audrey Truschke

From Neoliberalism to the Anthropocene

David Chandler

Interventions: The Art of Political Timing

Claire Bishop

Unpayable Debt

Denise Ferreira da Silva

Pan African Capital?
Banks, Currencies, and Imperial Power

Hannah Appel

Video

Gender and Meritocracy +
The Rise (and Fall?) of Neoliberal Feminism

Jo Littler +

Catherine Rottenberg