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Scholarship in Foucauldian governmentality has reemerged as a critical area of contemporary political discourse and has had a pronounced effect on neoliberal and postneoliberal research in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Perhaps the most versatile postneoliberal critic is Simon Springer, who has offered dynamic accounts of neoliberalism and its decline via a Foucauldian method. While Springer's research is novel, I believe it is not a rigorous Foucauldian account of neoliberalism and its future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

O início da crise financeira global em 2008 foi interpretado como um desafio fundamental à governança neoliberal. O artigo explora algumas das consequências de curto e longo prazo da crise econômica em relação aos processos da neoliberalização e propõe referências teóricas para uma compreensão adequada da natureza desse modelo político e socioeconômico e de suas manifestações e desenvolvimentos socioespaciais.The onset of the global financial crisis has been widely interpreted as a fundamental challenge to neoliberal governance. The article explores some of the near-term and longer-run consequences of the economic crisis for processes of neoliberalization, suggesting some theoretical references for the adequate understanding of the nature of neoliberalization and its evolving sociospacial manifestations.

With the recent development of the Occupy Movement, public criticism of neoliberalism has climaxed since the onset of a global financial crisis in late 2008. The mobilization of protesters in cities throughout the world was preceded by much speculation in the media and blogosphere over the past few years, where commentators have been quick to suggest that the end of neoliberalism is upon us. The validity of postneoliberalism, however, remains tenuous, as its advocates continue to treat neoliberalism as a monolithic, static, and undifferentiated end-state. Despite the desire to move beyond neoliberal strictures, there is an undeniable continuity to neoliberalism that must be appreciated if we ever hope to leave this unforgiving version of capitalism truly in the past. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The onset of the global financial crisis in 2008 has been widely interpreted as a fundamental challenge to, if not crisis of, neoliberal governance. Here, we explore some of the near-term and longer-run consequences of the economic crisis for processes of neoliberalization, asking whether we have been witnessing the terminal unraveling of neoliberalism as a form of social, political, and economic regulation. In many ways a creature of crisis, could neoliberalism now be falling to a crisis of its own making? Answering this question is impossible, we argue, without an adequate understanding of the nature of neoliberalization and its evolving sociospatial manifestations. These are more than definitional niceties. The prospects and potential of efforts to move genuinely beyond neoliberalism must also be considered in this light. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]