[ecrea] CaP-New Special Issue Published on “Neoliberalism and the Public Sphere”

Communication and the Public has just published a new Special issue on 
"Neoliberalism and the Public Sphere ".

 From an initiative to a deliberative engagement in tension with an 
embodied, habitual mode of communication to an analysis on the construct 
of marginalized group in texts produced to persuade communities and 
policymakers, and from the neoliberal reach within Supreme Court to the 
forming of an anti-neoliberal public through #houstonstong movement, 
from the adoption of racialized and gendered girl-empowerment discourses 
by neoliberal political economy to the crucial theses in the context of 
technoneoliberalism, we have seen the encroachment of neoliberalism on 
everyday discourse, its incredible global spread and its discourse 
crafting to appeal to unconscious public dispositions. Its focus on 
conjoint depletion prioritizes the strategic self-interest, making 
transcending collective behavior impossible for structural change. Its 
empowerment of rich people and private companies expedites the 
economization of non-economic realms like emotions and attention, 
infringes the subjectivities and affected the agency of people who have 
no access to private resources. This special issue on “Neoliberalism and 
the Public Sphere” examines three aspects that are presented by 
neoliberalism to public sphere scholarship, respectively they are: 1) 
Subjectivity, 2) Public engagement, and 3) Agency/structure.

Guest-edited by Robert Asen, the special issue pinpoints the pitfalls 
marginalized group are caught in, the resistance that could be made by 
neoliberal public and the digital construction that renders our 
subjectivities vulnerable. It exemplifies the scholarship necessary to 
look skeptically when looking to markets for answers to public problems 
at value of a democratically oriented public sphere. With the awareness 
that neoliberalism has prescribed certain kinds of ordering/ 
affectivity/ structure---and this could be different, we might be able 
to think beyond the dominant rationalities that govern us.

We invite you to read the following articles from this Special issue that
published August 13th, 2018.

Introduction: Neoliberalism and the public sphere—Robert Asen

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2057047318794687

Neoliberalism and the rhetorical invention of counterpublic 
attunement*—*Catherine Chaput 
<http://journals.sagepub.com/action/doSearch?target=default&ContribAuthorStored=Chaput%2C+Catherine> 


http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2057047318794688

“Expensive” people: Consumer citizenship and the limits of choice in 
neoliberal publics*—*Whitney Gent

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2057047318794683

The neoliberal conquest of the Supreme Court—Luke Winslow 
<http://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ctp/current>, Alec Baker 
<http://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ctp/current>, Charles Goehring 
<http://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ctp/current>

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2057047318794962

“/#houstonstrong/”: Resisting and reifying the neoliberal 
public—Jennifer Wingard 
<http://journals.sagepub.com/action/doSearch?target=default&ContribAuthorStored=Wingard%2C+Jennifer> 


http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2057047318794961


Speaking well: The benevolent public and rhetorical production of 
neoliberal political economy—Rebecca Dingo

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2057047318794964

Five theses on technoliberalism and the networked public sphere—Damien 
Smith Pfister 
<http://journals.sagepub.com/action/doSearch?target=default&ContribAuthorStored=Pfister%2C+Damien+Smith>, 
Misti Yang 
<http://journals.sagepub.com/action/doSearch?target=default&ContribAuthorStored=Yang%2C+Misti> 


http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2057047318794963



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