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Publikation Resetting minds and souls. Language, employability and the making of neoliberal subjects(Routledge, 2020) Del Percio, Alfonso; Wong , Sze Wan Vivian; Martin Rojo, Luisa; Del Percio, AlfonsoIn this chapter, we present an ethnographic documentation of an employment program that is provided by a charity located in East London. We generate a critical understanding of the ways these programs contribute to the governmentality of poverty and unemployed subjects in London. This paper then argues that the investigated employability program strives to disrupt poverty and unemployment through a set of disciplining techniques that target the individuals’ minds and souls. We will show that, these techniques are anchored in larger histories of knowledge about, and discipline of, “poverty” and the “poor”. In the same time, we will show that that the investigated program is emblematic for a form of neoliberal governmentality that asks the participating subjects to understand their subjectivity in terms of quality, competitiveness and freedom. We will finally argue that the complex set of ideas informing this training program do not determine the actions or thinking of the participating subjects. This neoliberal rational is rather mobilized, rationalized and dialectically engaged with on the ground by (some of) the unemployed subjects who contest this program’s ability to promote their access to jobs and socioeconomic inclusion.04A - Beitrag SammelbandPublikation Neoliberalism, language and governmentality(Routledge, 2020) Martin Rojo, Luisa; Del Percio, Alfonso; Martin Rojo, Luisa; Del Percio, AlfonsoThis chapter examines how the concepts of neoliberal governmentality and political rationality contribute to the understanding of neoliberalism as a contemporary form of governance of populations, institutions, practices, language, and subjects, focusing on the key elements addressed in Foucault’s governmentality: the population as a target; the notion of “political economy” as the predominance of market mechanisms and hence limited state involvement; and the “apparatuses of security” as the specific techniques involved in the management of populations. The chapter analyses how governmentality is constructed in discourse as a form of rationality, the knowledge thus generated (such as neoliberal principles and models of subjectivity), and the technologies of power mobilised to govern subjects and their behaviour. The discourse-knowledge-power triad is illustrated by reference to two powerful ways in which neoliberalism colonises social and personal life, apart from its impact on the economy: the neoliberalisation of institutions and the creation of neoliberal subjects. In each of these dimensions, language plays a key role. Thus, neoliberal rationalities shape our understanding of language, impacting on social classes and ethnic groups, and producing neoliberal speakers trained to accumulate language skills and capital in order to survive in a world of competition, life-long education, and unceasing demands for greater productivity.04A - Beitrag SammelbandPublikation Language and neoliberal governmentality(Routledge, 2020) Martin Rojo, Luisa; Del Percio, Alfonso; Martín Rojo, Luisa; Del Percio, AlfonsoAgainst a background of the ongoing crisis of global capitalism and the fracturing of the neoliberal project, this book provides a detailed account of the ways in which language is profoundly imbricated in the neoliberalising of the fabric of social life. With chapters from a cast list of international scholars covering topics such as the commodification of education and language, unemployment, and the governmentality of the self, and discussion chapters from Monica Heller and Jackie Urla bringing the various strands together, the book ultimately helps us to understand how language is part of political economy and the everyday making and remaking of society and individuals. It provides both a theoretical framework and a significant methodological "tool-box" to critically detect, understand, and resist the impact of neoliberalism on everyday social spheres, particularly in relation to language. Presenting richly empirical studies that expand our understanding of how neoliberalism as a regime of truth and as a practice of governance performs within the terrain of language, this book is an essential resource for researchers and graduate students in English language, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, linguistic anthropology, and related areas.03 - Sammelband