Abstract
The dissolution of an effective counterbalance to Western capitalism at the end of the Cold War signaled the triumph of commodification as a central organizing principle of social relations, the impact of which is evident in the post-1989 reorganization of space to mirror the demands of neoliberal capitalist networks. In light of these developments, this chapter posits that the spatial remapping embodied by these new “civic identikit” (Hocking 2015) landscapes may be read as foreshadowing a major paradigm shift in the conception of citizenship and culture, a paradigm shift with profound implications for social scientists tasked with untangling the hierarchies of authenticity contained in any construction of market-mediated community. Subsequently, the explosion of the surveillance state is examined here as a natural outgrowth of global capital's ongoing appropriation of social relations, predicated as it is on ever-more precise models of consumer behavior.
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Hocking, B.T. (2017). The End of Ideology? Reconceptualizing Citizenship and Culture in a Post-(political) Place World. In: Burchardt, M., Kirn, G. (eds) Beyond Neoliberalism. Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45590-7_11
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