Lars Cornelissen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 186178 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Lars Cornelissen |
| NOMBRES | Lars |
| APELLIDO | Cornelissen |
| FIRMA | CORNELISSEN L |
| AFILIACIONES | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9552-0206 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Race, neoliberalism and ideology critique
Fossil Neoliberalism
This article develops an intellectual history of neoliberal climate change denial, bringing together scholarship on the history of neoliberal ideas with critical research on climate denialism. Focusing on the writings of Deepak Lal (1940–2020), a prominent late neoliberal thinker, the article reconstructs the key arguments Lal developed to throw climate science into question. After situating Lal in relation to neoliberal thought and think tanks, …
Neoliberalism and Race
Lars Cornelissen argues that the category of race constitutes an organizing principle of neoliberal ideology. Using the methods of intellectual history and drawing on insights from critical race studies, Cornelissen explores the various racial constructs that structure neoliberal ideology, some of which are explicit, while others are more coded. Beginning in the interwar period and running through to recent developments, Neoliberalism and Race sh…
A neutral toolkit? For a fundamental critique of constructive alignment
This paper develops a systematic critique of the theory of constructive alignment (CA). It argues that CA is less a simple toolkit than a comprehensive philosophy of teaching and learning. Articulated by John Biggs between the 1970s and the 1990s, this philosophy contains a number of problematic theoretical positions on student ability, the nature of understanding, and the purpose of education. When mandated in university settings, this philosoph…
Between neoliberalism and fascism
This paper argues that a shared investment in racial hierarchy has historically formed a key point of convergence between neoliberal and far-right ideologies. To make this argument, the paper develops a close analysis of the career and works of Louis Rougier (1889-1982). Known principally as a prominent early free-market advocate who helped to organise the neoliberal movement in the interwar period, Rougier stands out from many other neoliberals …
Neoliberalism and Its Hegemonic Crisis
The recent resurgence of exclusionary nationalism across the advanced capitalist world has caused historical scholarship on neoliberalism to reorient itself. Previous accounts of neoliberalism proved inadequate to theorize the hegemonic crisis that neoliberalism has been thrust into, prematurely rushing to declare neoliberalism dead. The task is to offer an interpretation of resurgent nationalism that can account for points of tension with hegemo…
From colonial economics to structural adjustment
This paper brings together scholarship on the history of neoliberal thought with the emerging ‘raced finance’ research agenda. The paper makes a methodological and an empirical contribution. First, it argues that ideology critique can make a valuable contribution to the study of raced finance by providing the tools to demystify coded racial constructs. Second, it argues that an enduring technology of raced finance, Structural Adjustment Programs …
Neoliberal imperialism
This essay approaches the neoliberal tradition of thought through the lens of liberal imperialism. Seeking to bring scholarship on the history of neoliberal ideas together with research on liberal defences of empire, I show that the neoliberal tradition of thought contains a number of formal, explicit, and systematic defences of (European) colonialism. In the first section of the essay, I contextualise neoliberal imperialism by showing that many …
Why anti-neoliberalism means anti-racism
Post-War Ordoliberalism, Race and the Politics of Development
This chapter discusses how leading Ordoliberal thinkers, Wilhelm Röpke and Alexander Rüstow, approached the concepts of race and development in their post-war writings, arguing that these offered them a means of theorising non-Western culture. It begins by mapping their respective positions on race, showing that whilst Röpke and Rüstow held different views on the notion of racial superiority, both men believed that ‘scientifically’ informed race …
Savage Economics
In this essay, I interrogate the racialized roots of the early neoliberal conception of (Western) civilization. I do so by placing that conception in a broader genealogy of early Austrian economic theory, focusing in particular on the writings of Carl Menger, Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, Friedrich von Wieser, and Ludwig von Mises. Rather than directly analyzing their understanding of civilization, however, I approach this topic by centering the way the…
Elements of neoliberal Euroscepticism
Neoliberalism and the racialized critique of democracy
n Contains fulltext :\n 229675pub.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
The condition of neoliberalism studies
How markets are made
As offshoots of and reactions to neoliberalism continue to dominate our political imaginary, the scholarly critique of neoliberal thought remains urgent and timely. This article engages with two recent intellectual histories of neoliberalism, Thomas Biebricher’s The Political Theory of Neoliberalism and Quinn Slobodian’s Globalists, both of which serve to re-centre debates surrounding the composition and career of neoliberal thinking. Dealing, re…
We, the Peoples
This article engages with the limits of Ernesto Laclau's theory of populism, focusing on the logic of popular identification. The central argument is that the Laclauian framework is incapable of accounting for recent forms of populism that articulate a decolonial mode of identification. More specifically, the article shows that for Laclau, leadership and exclusion are necessary components of popular identification, in which the identity of 'the p…
On the subject of neoliberalism
The Secularization of Providential Order
In this article I argue that the concept of spontaneous order that underlies F. A. Hayek's political-economic thought is a secularized version of classical liberalism's understanding of order as providential. In Adam Ferguson's writings on history and social order, from which Hayek draws the notion of spontaneous order, the classical liberal paradigm reveals its intimate connection to providential theology. It is in three features of Ferguson's t…
How can the people be restricted?’
Drawing upon archival material, this article offers an overview and discussion of the manner in which the topic of representative democracy was addressed during conferences of the Mont Pèlerin Society in the period between 1947 and 1998. I contend that the most common critique of democracy amongst MPS members was that democratic politics has the tendency to lead to interventions in the economy, thus distorting or even destroying the market mechan…
Undoing the demos
Neoliberalism and the racialized critique of democracy
n Contains fulltext :\n 229675pub.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
On the subject of neoliberalism
The Secularization of Providential Order
In this article I argue that the concept of spontaneous order that underlies F. A. Hayek's political-economic thought is a secularized version of classical liberalism's understanding of order as providential. In Adam Ferguson's writings on history and social order, from which Hayek draws the notion of spontaneous order, the classical liberal paradigm reveals its intimate connection to providential theology. It is in three features of Ferguson's t…
Neoliberal imperialism
This essay approaches the neoliberal tradition of thought through the lens of liberal imperialism. Seeking to bring scholarship on the history of neoliberal ideas together with research on liberal defences of empire, I show that the neoliberal tradition of thought contains a number of formal, explicit, and systematic defences of (European) colonialism. In the first section of the essay, I contextualise neoliberal imperialism by showing that many …
How can the people be restricted?’
Drawing upon archival material, this article offers an overview and discussion of the manner in which the topic of representative democracy was addressed during conferences of the Mont Pèlerin Society in the period between 1947 and 1998. I contend that the most common critique of democracy amongst MPS members was that democratic politics has the tendency to lead to interventions in the economy, thus distorting or even destroying the market mechan…
Why anti-neoliberalism means anti-racism
Savage Economics
In this essay, I interrogate the racialized roots of the early neoliberal conception of (Western) civilization. I do so by placing that conception in a broader genealogy of early Austrian economic theory, focusing in particular on the writings of Carl Menger, Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, Friedrich von Wieser, and Ludwig von Mises. Rather than directly analyzing their understanding of civilization, however, I approach this topic by centering the way the…
Undoing the demos
We, the Peoples
This article engages with the limits of Ernesto Laclau's theory of populism, focusing on the logic of popular identification. The central argument is that the Laclauian framework is incapable of accounting for recent forms of populism that articulate a decolonial mode of identification. More specifically, the article shows that for Laclau, leadership and exclusion are necessary components of popular identification, in which the identity of 'the p…
Undoing the demos
The Secularization of Providential Order
In this article I argue that the concept of spontaneous order that underlies F. A. Hayek's political-economic thought is a secularized version of classical liberalism's understanding of order as providential. In Adam Ferguson's writings on history and social order, from which Hayek draws the notion of spontaneous order, the classical liberal paradigm reveals its intimate connection to providential theology. It is in three features of Ferguson's t…
How can the people be restricted?’
Drawing upon archival material, this article offers an overview and discussion of the manner in which the topic of representative democracy was addressed during conferences of the Mont Pèlerin Society in the period between 1947 and 1998. I contend that the most common critique of democracy amongst MPS members was that democratic politics has the tendency to lead to interventions in the economy, thus distorting or even destroying the market mechan…
On the subject of neoliberalism
The condition of neoliberalism studies
How markets are made
As offshoots of and reactions to neoliberalism continue to dominate our political imaginary, the scholarly critique of neoliberal thought remains urgent and timely. This article engages with two recent intellectual histories of neoliberalism, Thomas Biebricher’s The Political Theory of Neoliberalism and Quinn Slobodian’s Globalists, both of which serve to re-centre debates surrounding the composition and career of neoliberal thinking. Dealing, re…
We, the Peoples
This article engages with the limits of Ernesto Laclau's theory of populism, focusing on the logic of popular identification. The central argument is that the Laclauian framework is incapable of accounting for recent forms of populism that articulate a decolonial mode of identification. More specifically, the article shows that for Laclau, leadership and exclusion are necessary components of popular identification, in which the identity of 'the p…
Neoliberalism and the racialized critique of democracy
n Contains fulltext :\n 229675pub.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Savage Economics
In this essay, I interrogate the racialized roots of the early neoliberal conception of (Western) civilization. I do so by placing that conception in a broader genealogy of early Austrian economic theory, focusing in particular on the writings of Carl Menger, Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, Friedrich von Wieser, and Ludwig von Mises. Rather than directly analyzing their understanding of civilization, however, I approach this topic by centering the way the…
Elements of neoliberal Euroscepticism
Post-War Ordoliberalism, Race and the Politics of Development
This chapter discusses how leading Ordoliberal thinkers, Wilhelm Röpke and Alexander Rüstow, approached the concepts of race and development in their post-war writings, arguing that these offered them a means of theorising non-Western culture. It begins by mapping their respective positions on race, showing that whilst Röpke and Rüstow held different views on the notion of racial superiority, both men believed that ‘scientifically’ informed race …
Neoliberalism and Race
Lars Cornelissen argues that the category of race constitutes an organizing principle of neoliberal ideology. Using the methods of intellectual history and drawing on insights from critical race studies, Cornelissen explores the various racial constructs that structure neoliberal ideology, some of which are explicit, while others are more coded. Beginning in the interwar period and running through to recent developments, Neoliberalism and Race sh…
A neutral toolkit? For a fundamental critique of constructive alignment
This paper develops a systematic critique of the theory of constructive alignment (CA). It argues that CA is less a simple toolkit than a comprehensive philosophy of teaching and learning. Articulated by John Biggs between the 1970s and the 1990s, this philosophy contains a number of problematic theoretical positions on student ability, the nature of understanding, and the purpose of education. When mandated in university settings, this philosoph…
Between neoliberalism and fascism
This paper argues that a shared investment in racial hierarchy has historically formed a key point of convergence between neoliberal and far-right ideologies. To make this argument, the paper develops a close analysis of the career and works of Louis Rougier (1889-1982). Known principally as a prominent early free-market advocate who helped to organise the neoliberal movement in the interwar period, Rougier stands out from many other neoliberals …
Neoliberalism and Its Hegemonic Crisis
The recent resurgence of exclusionary nationalism across the advanced capitalist world has caused historical scholarship on neoliberalism to reorient itself. Previous accounts of neoliberalism proved inadequate to theorize the hegemonic crisis that neoliberalism has been thrust into, prematurely rushing to declare neoliberalism dead. The task is to offer an interpretation of resurgent nationalism that can account for points of tension with hegemo…
From colonial economics to structural adjustment
This paper brings together scholarship on the history of neoliberal thought with the emerging ‘raced finance’ research agenda. The paper makes a methodological and an empirical contribution. First, it argues that ideology critique can make a valuable contribution to the study of raced finance by providing the tools to demystify coded racial constructs. Second, it argues that an enduring technology of raced finance, Structural Adjustment Programs …
Neoliberal imperialism
This essay approaches the neoliberal tradition of thought through the lens of liberal imperialism. Seeking to bring scholarship on the history of neoliberal ideas together with research on liberal defences of empire, I show that the neoliberal tradition of thought contains a number of formal, explicit, and systematic defences of (European) colonialism. In the first section of the essay, I contextualise neoliberal imperialism by showing that many …
Why anti-neoliberalism means anti-racism
Race, neoliberalism and ideology critique
Fossil Neoliberalism
This article develops an intellectual history of neoliberal climate change denial, bringing together scholarship on the history of neoliberal ideas with critical research on climate denialism. Focusing on the writings of Deepak Lal (1940–2020), a prominent late neoliberal thinker, the article reconstructs the key arguments Lal developed to throw climate science into question. After situating Lal in relation to neoliberal thought and think tanks, …
Political science (16 obras) · Sociology (16 obras) · Law (13 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Political economy (11 obras) · Neoliberalism (international relations (10 obras) · Politics (10 obras) · Political Economy and Marxism (9 obras) · Epistemology (6 obras) · Gender Studies (6 obras)