Wendy Brown
American political theorist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, known for work on neoliberalism, democracy, sovereignty and the critique of modern political thought; author of books including Undoing the Demos and Walled States, Waning Sovereignty.
Books
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1. In The Ruins Of Neoliberalism
The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West
This book argues that the widespread adoption of market-driven logic has hollowed out democratic institutions and civic life, reshaping citizens into competitive, market-oriented subjects and making social relations and public goods subordinate to capital and profitability; the result is increased inequality, precarity, and a depoliticized public sphere in which law, education, and even state functions are retooled to serve market ends, leaving space for authoritarian tendencies and a crisis of democratic possibility while also pointing toward the need to reclaim collective political imaginaries and rebuild institutions that resist economistic governance.
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