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1. Introduction: Neoliberalism and the Context of Context; Simon Dawes -- Part 1. Neoliberalism Now -- 2. Lost in Translation: On the Failure to Name the Present Condition; Thierry Labica -- 3. The Slow Retreat of Neoliberalism in Contemporary Britain?; Emma Bell and Gilles Christoph -- 4. Resisting the Zombie Economy: Finding the Right Metaphor for Neoliberal Crisis as Lived Experience; Johnna Montgomerie and Ruth Cain -- Part 2. Neoliberal Goverannce -- 5. Different Routes up the Same Mountain? Neoliberalism in Australia and New Zealand; Guy Redden, Sean Phelan and Claire Baker -- 6. Have States Stopped Steering Markets? Rethinking Neoliberal Interventionism and Periodization in the United States and the United Kingdom; Bradley T. Smith and Lucie de Carvalho -- 7. Towards a History of Neoliberal Urbanism in the United States; Andrew Diamond -- 8. Free-market Advocacy in the Social Sciences and in Economics: The Analysis of Human Behavior Between Vienna And Chicago; Jacopo Marchetti -- 9. From Market to Contract: What do Corporate Governance and Contract Law Contribute to the Analysis of Neoliberalism?; Kean Birch -- Part 3. Neoliberal Subjectivity -- 10. Racial Neoliberalism and the Fragmentation of One Neoliberal Order; Gargi Bhattacharyya -- 11. Disability, Neoliberal Inclusionism and Nonnormative Positivism; David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder -- 12. The Affective Life of Neoliberalism: Constructing (Un)Reasonableness on Mumsnet; Yvonne Ehrstein, Rosalind Gill and Jo Littler -- 13. Media and the Neoliberal Swindle: From 'Fake News' to 'Public Service'; Des Freedman -- Part 4. Neoliberalism and Knowledge -- 14. Academic Freedom and the Disciplinary Regime in the Neoliberal University; Liz Morrish -- 15. Questions of Value for Higher Education: The Case of Luxury Student Accommodation; Karen Wilkes -- 16. Neoliberal Dis-Imagination, Manufactured Ignorance and Civic Illiteracy; Henry A. Giroux -- Afterword -- 17. Contextualising Neoliberalism: An Interview with Jamie Peck; Simon Dawes and Jamie Peck

In this interview, Aurelien Mondon and Simon Dawes analyse the mainstreaming of far-right politics. It aims to make sense of Marine Le Pen's rise by putting it in perspective and accounting for the role of the mainstream itself in the process. Building on the research Mondon has undertaken with colleagues, this interview explores in particular the importance of understanding mainstreaming beyond it being the success of the far right or a sign of its growing popularity. In particular, this requires a more critical take on issues such as populism, but also articulations of racism, to understand how politics which had been relegated to the margins of history have returned to the norm and occupy today a disproportionate space in public discourse. Far from downplaying the threat posed by the far right today, Mondon stresses that combatting it is of course essential, but that a more holistic approach, which tackles the role of mainstream actors in the legitimisation of reactionary politics, is essential if we are to stop the slide towards fascism.