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Postliberal Politics: The coming era of renewal

Pabst, Adrian (2021) Postliberal Politics: The coming era of renewal. Polity Press, Cambridge, UK, 224 pp. ISBN 978-1-5095-4681-7. E-ISBN 978-1-5095-4682-4. (Access to this publication is currently restricted. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:85882)

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Abstract

Hyper-capitalism and extreme identity politics are driving us to distraction. Both destroy the basis of a common life shared across ages and classes. The Covid-19 crisis could accelerate these tendencies further, or it could herald something more hopeful: a post-liberal moment.

Adrian Pabst argues that now is the time for an alternative – post-liberalism – that is centred around trust, dignity, and human relationships. Instead of reverting to the mutual suspicion and destabilising inhumanity of ‘just-in-time’ free-market globalisation, we could build a politics upon the sense of localism and community spirit, the valuing of family, place and belonging, which was a real theme of lockdown. We are not obliged to put up with the restoration of a broken status quo that erodes trust, undermines institutions and trashes our precious natural environment. We could build a pluralist democracy, decentralise the state, and promote mutualist markets embedded in the everyday economy.

This bold book shows that only a politics which fuses economic justice with social solidarity and ecological balance can overcome our deep divisions and save us from authoritarian backlash.

Item Type: Book
Uncontrolled keywords: politics; postliberalism; community
Subjects: J Political Science > JC Political theory
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Politics and International Relations
Depositing User: Adrian Pabst
Date Deposited: 05 Feb 2021 14:30 UTC
Last Modified: 24 Jun 2021 10:40 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/85882 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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