Davies, W., & Dunne, S. (2016). The limits of neoliberalism: An interview with Will Davies. Ephemera, 16(1), 155.SD: You announce that your take on critique is likely to annoy some people. Why did you think that?

WD: I suppose what I wondered is whether by trying to excavate the appeals to justice and the appeals to political authority that I argue lie dormant within certain sort of technocratic discourses, it might look like I was trying to explain why neoliberalism might be a good thing in some way. That would be quite a crude reading of it, but there are people that have read Boltanski like that. I know sociologists who think that, after Bruno Latour, Boltanski is the worst thing that's happened to sociology in recent decades. Some believed that The new spirit of capitalism sought to render contemporary power acceptable. I wondered if there might be some people who would make me guilty by association with such a misreading, as if I was letting neoliberalism off the hook. There's also an absence of hard realism in the book, what could be perceived as a slightly idealistic concern with ideas, discourses and ideal types in a Weberian sense. Thankfully, the people on the left and Marxists who I have had responses from haven't reacted that way. Renewal, for example, did a round table symposium on the book which invited three pieces and a response from me. Bob Jessop was one of the three, and seemed to really like the book, recognising it was also making a contribution to state theory.

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Schmid, B. (2021). Hybrid infrastructures: The role of strategy and compromise in grassroot governance. Environmental Policy and Governance, 31(3), 199-210.