Neoliberalizing Race, Racing Neoliberalism: Placing "Race" in Neoliberal Discourses

This intervention piece attempts to extend the ways neoliberalism and race are currently conceptualized in geography. Rather than thinking about these concepts as two separate entities, we insist on examining their co-constitutive qualities. It is important to analyze the processes through which the ideology neoliberalism is actualized through various policies, discourses, and social relations. However, this theorization can limit analyses to what we call moments of eruption of racial discrimination from processes of neoliberalization. We argue that scholarship needs to do more than map how processes of neoliberalization have racialized results. Instead we suggest focusing on the ways neoliberalism (its underlying philosophy) is fundamentally raced and actively produces racialized bodies. Paying particular attention to the racialized discourses about immigrants in a Canadian newspaper, we argue that neoliberalism works to modify the ways race functions. Adapted from the source document.