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Book SynopsisThe increasing concentration of influence and affluence among the few provides the stimulus for this book, which maps how uncertainty is dispersed via the cumulative strategies of the conservative right in the United States.
Since the 1970s, the conservative right has exerted exceptional force to shape public response and governmental policy in a manner favorable to neoliberal logic and practice. The right's strategies, termed structuring mechanisms, reliably reconfigure practical knowledge and a skein of human interactions and material conditions across discourses and institutions. This book illustrates these mechanisms through four cases: PC discourse; a cultural politic of economic resentment; and the two parallel struggles over the authority to define reality pivoting around academic freedom and global warming. Together, these mechanisms collude to reshape the boundaries of public life in the form of private interests.
Marlia Banning proposes a critical methodology that t
Table of ContentsContents: When All That Is Public Melts into Air – Consolidating Power through the Discourse of Political Correctness – The Cultural Politic of Resentment – Knowledge Production and Reduction: The Battle of Ideas and Academic Freedom – While the World Warms.
