'Neoliberalism' as 'conceptual trash heap'

By Dr Jonathan Mair in neoliberalism on

This is my first post in a long time. Over the last year I moved to Manchester and started teaching full time. I hope to return to blogging from time to time. Recently I’ve seen the transcript of the 2012 GDAT debate on the concept of neoliberalism, which is…

GDAT 2012: Debating "neoliberalism"

By Dr Jonathan Mair in anthropology on

On Saturday I had the pleasure of taking part in GDAT, an annual debate on anthropological theory hosted by Manchester University. GDAT, the Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory, was started in the late 80s by Tim Ingold, and has been organized and chaired more recently by Soumhya Venkatesan. This…