“The Great Recoil” Book Launch

In these times of health emergency, economic collapse, populist anger and ecological threat, societies are forced to turn inward in search of protection. Neoliberalism, the ideology that presided over decades of market globalisation, is on trial, while state intervention is making a spectacular comeback amid lockdowns, mass vaccination programmes, deficit spending and climate planning.

This is the Great Recoil, the era when the neo-statist endopolitics of national sovereignty, economic protection and democratic control overrides the neoliberal exopolitics of free markets, labour flexibility and business opportunity.

The book launch event will host the book author alongside other authors and academics working on related issues. It will be followed by a Q&A session.

The author will discuss the book contents with Grace Blakeley, Will Davies and Sarah Jaffe.

Books will be on sale at the event.

To purchase the book online: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3774-the-great-recoil

Paolo Gerbaudo is an Italian sociologist and political theorist based at King's College London.

Grace Blakeley is an English economics and politics commentator and the author of Stolen: How to Save the World From Financialisation

William Davies is a political and sociological theorist. He is the author of This is Not Normal: The Collapse of Liberal Britain.

Sarah L. Jaffe is a labor journalist. She is the author of Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted and Alone.