6 Dying
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Lucy Noakes
Abstract
This chapter examines how neoliberalism engineers its own unique rendition of the nationalist crisis through recourse to discourses of meritocratic competition, the entrepreneurial self and individual will, alongside its exaltation of a ‘points-system’ approach to the ills of immigration. A traditional concern of the neoliberal right posits that a market-society ideal is hampered by cultures of welfare dependency and the absence of individual responsibility. This neoliberal position individualises outcomes of success and failure, muting in turn issues of structure and access. But, again, important questions arise regarding the imperative of this neoliberal frame to also racialise conceptions of failure, dependency and national crisis. This is a neoliberal denigration of the racialised outsider that operates through the categories of blackness, the Muslim and the pervasive notion of the inadequate and undesirable migrant. As regards the pathologisation of immigration, particular emphasis will be placed on the unique shaming of the Roma that has recently found a place in British commentary and visual culture.
Abstract
This chapter examines how neoliberalism engineers its own unique rendition of the nationalist crisis through recourse to discourses of meritocratic competition, the entrepreneurial self and individual will, alongside its exaltation of a ‘points-system’ approach to the ills of immigration. A traditional concern of the neoliberal right posits that a market-society ideal is hampered by cultures of welfare dependency and the absence of individual responsibility. This neoliberal position individualises outcomes of success and failure, muting in turn issues of structure and access. But, again, important questions arise regarding the imperative of this neoliberal frame to also racialise conceptions of failure, dependency and national crisis. This is a neoliberal denigration of the racialised outsider that operates through the categories of blackness, the Muslim and the pervasive notion of the inadequate and undesirable migrant. As regards the pathologisation of immigration, particular emphasis will be placed on the unique shaming of the Roma that has recently found a place in British commentary and visual culture.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgements vi
- 1 Introduction 1
- 2 Shadowing 21
- 3 Feeling 45
- 4 Planning 73
- 5 Coping 101
- 6 Dying 125
- 7 Burying 155
- 8 Grieving 193
- 9 Remembering 229
- 10 Conclusion 265
- Bibliography 271
- Index 291
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgements vi
- 1 Introduction 1
- 2 Shadowing 21
- 3 Feeling 45
- 4 Planning 73
- 5 Coping 101
- 6 Dying 125
- 7 Burying 155
- 8 Grieving 193
- 9 Remembering 229
- 10 Conclusion 265
- Bibliography 271
- Index 291
