Rethinking Power: Responding to the Crisis of Neoliberal Hegemony?
Résumé
This article claims that neoliberal hegemony is now in crisis. This does not mean that neoliberalism is on the verge of collapse. Given its capacity to mutate and adapt to constantly changing circumstances, neoliberalism as ideology and political practice has remained remarkably resilient. There are nonetheless signs that the neoliberal hegemony established in the 1980s is currently facing a number of challenges that, taken together, may be considered to represent a conjunctural crisis whereby consent for the current hegemony has become tenuous. After discussing the precise nature of this crisis in the UK, the article then moves on to examine the possible responses to that crisis. Successive governments continue to respond to crisis by resorting to authoritarian populism to build up hegemony, further reinforcing the power of the State. Yet, it is argued that the current conjuncture might provide a way of responding differently to crisis rather than through coercion, constructing consent for an alternative hegemonic project. It is suggested that the question of power might be used to link together popular concerns, such as those regarding citizenship and representation, in order to construct popular consent for a new counter-hegemonic project led from below.
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