Kolloquium: Volk Capital: The Moral Economy of Xenophobic Libertarianism from Hayek to the AfD

  • Datum: 10.07.2018
  • Uhrzeit: 17:00
  • Vortragende(r): Quinn Slobodian
  • Ort: Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin
  • Raum: Kleiner Sitzungssaal
  • Gastgeber: Forschungsbereich Geschichte der Gefühle
  • Kontakt: sekfrevert@mpib-berlin.mpg.de

The Center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, led by Prof. Ute Frevert, cordially invites all interested to attend its summer semester 2018 colloquium:

Quinn Slobodian, Harvard University/Wellesley College

Volk Capital: The Moral Economy of Xenophobic Libertarianism from Hayek to the AfD

Since the twin victories of Brexit and Trump in 2016, commentators have observed a clash between popular nationalism and neoliberal globalism. The talk calls the dichotomy into question by uncovering the neoliberal intellectual roots of the populist nationalist mobilizations in Central Europe, with a focus on the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ). These parties represent a genre of neoliberal thought that Quinn Slobodian calls xenophobic libertarianism, stretching back to the work of F. A. Hayek since the late 1970s and incorporating strains of racial psychology, culturalism, and comparative economics. The moral economy of xenophobic libertarianism revolves around a combination of ethno-nationalism and market competition that he calls Volk capital.

Quinn Slobodian is ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellow at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Initiative on Global History for 2017-8 and associate professor of history at Wellesley College. His most recent book is Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (Harvard University Press, 2018). Forthcoming is Nine Lives of Neoliberalism (Verso), co-edited with Dieter Plehwe and Philip Mirowski. He is currently writing a book on the rise of xenophobic libertarianism.

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