Desiring Neoliberalism

Autor(en)

Gundula Ludwig

Abstrakt

The paper is based on the premise that neoliberalism is a political rationality that is not only anti-social but also requires an anti-democratic and violent form of statehood. However, neoliberalism is not solely based on coercion and force, but paradoxically also on consensus. This consensus is not least organized through its flexibilized and pluralized sexual politics. By focussing on sexual politics in Germany's capital Berlin, the paper highlights that the flexibilization of the apparatus of sexuality is not merely a side effect of neoliberalism but a constitutive element of neoliberal governmentality that is deployed to legitimate an anti-democratic and violent neoliberal state. Neoliberalism uses the promise of sexual tolerance, flexibility, and pluralism in order to fulfill its anti-social, anti-democratic, and violent agenda. Furthermore, it is argued that neoliberal sexual politics require a rethinking of the concept of heteronormativity. Here, I propose to recast heteronormativity as heteronormalization.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Politikwissenschaft

Journal

Sexuality Research and Social Policy

Band

13

Seiten

417-427

Anzahl der Seiten

11

ISSN

1868-9884

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-016-0257-6

Publikationsdatum

12-2016

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

506013 Politische Theorie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Health(social science), Gender studies, Sociology and Political Science

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/41c3d6f2-01e3-4367-9b93-97503a16056b