Melinda Cooper is an Australian sociologist and political theorist. Her work deals with the political economy of neoliberalism, biopolitics and the history of capitalism.
This article was first published in boundary 2 – an international journal of literature and culture Volume 40, Issue 1, Spring 2013
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