Tag: neoliberalism

An Introduction of Sorts

The humanity inherent within all known constructs, ideas, and relations attracts me to social science. This journey for me began by returning to school, first receiving a BA in Psychology, then I sought master’s training as a social worker. Somewhere between the clinical application of human psychology and the forces which define and classify human beings, I was introduced to various social scientific theories. Both psychology and social work then conspired, making me curious about the larger theoretical orientations, apparatuses, institutions, cultural, and economic forces that govern human life, define human realities, and inform human activity. Thus I sought and am now closing in on the end of my social science doctorate.

This page will represent my professional expertise, research, thoughts, and opinions related to social science, but more importantly, social science in an extraordinary time of multidisciplinary crises. Such crises range from overdose deaths, declining quality of life, rising forms of right-wing fascisms, war, cruel and commodified systems, the coronavirus pandemic, and myriad other disasters led by human ecological destruction, extractive logics, and the extraordinary rapaciousness of the endstage neoliberal political economy.

However, all is not doom and gloom. The extraordinariness of our times – facing economic disparity, gross inequities, and ecological extinction are, indeed, serious matters – historically, it is moments of human crises which have created the conditions of human revolution, ingenuity, and adaption which has allowed for the species to endure as it has. Thus, as a social scientist, one of my main tasks is to seek out, explore, explain, define, and support the elements of hope and radical change that may emerge within our various long-term crises. This task will be accomplished primarily through my professional work combined with personal and theoretical explorations and, therefore, will be represented here as formal and informal explorations.

Ultimately it is my hope that when someone asks me what I do, what I think, or what I am capable of, this page will serve as a point of reference, whether personally or professionally. I will try to keep it updated and relevant as I move forward, if for no other reason than to serve as some sort of record of my professional life.

Regards,
AMB
Spring 2023

Scholarly Work and Publications

“Crises tend to expose the fault lines in a society, revealing the deep inequalities and injustices that are often hidden beneath the surface of everyday life.”
Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis (2013) p.3.