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One of the most serious problems related to the current neoliberal hegemony is the reconstruction of
economics, states and the rule of law alike. Deflected from any kind of democratic commitment, state
sovereignty is repeatedly endangered by the neoliberal rationality and its economization code. This
narrowing of state´s regulatory and democratic expectations relies more on soft power than on hard
power (Brown, 2006; 2015) namely on specific languages, symbols and repertories. Neoliberal
rationality and its market-mimicking languages have often been associated with violence exercised on
the behalf of (or sponsered by) states. Such acts include the elimination of “dependency cultures”
through fiscal reforms and changes in social policies that are oriented toward the protection of the
most vulnerable; the intensification of social inequality; cyclical financial meltdowns; tremendous
environmental impacts; the commodification of every human need; and the financing of everyday life
(Chossudovsky, 2003; Brown, 2015; Howard and King, 2008; Klein, 2015). Our argument in this paper
proposal is that neoliberal rationality has become increasingly powerful, ethereal, and hegemonic
because it has displaced and instrumentalized state powers, while at the same time it has relocated
and translated human dignity and social justice into a market-mimicking framework. As Clarke (2008)
posits, neoliberalism´s most remarkable achievement lies within a double dynamic of translation:
different repertories are decoded in the light of neoliberal rationality, reassembled for audiences and
subjects, and then legitimatized when everyday languages translate the neoliberal paradigm, its goals,
and contradictions. State oppression, violence and social injustices are then uncritically established
and made vulgar, routine. Key to this appropriation are the ideological keystones and the languages
used to justify social injustice and market-mimicking models of social organization (cf. Jost, Blout,
Pfeffer and Hunyady, 2003). We seek to shed light on the micro-discourses that echo and reflect the
neoliberal rationality and that justifies different social injustices allocated to states such as the
continuously dismantlement of the welfare-state in different countries of the global north.
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Soares, M., Mendes, S. (2016). The everyday legitimacy of state violence and social injustice: the neoliberal rationality and its market-mimicking language on human dignity. In Abstracts Eurocrim 2016 - 16th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Munster, Germany, 21-24 September 2016. (art. n.º 632). [Lausanne]: European Society of Criminology