How and why neoliberal policies spread across political jurisdictions is a fundamental question for economic geographers and critical policy scholars. Many accounts inspired by the policy mobility approach point to neoliberalism as having a conditioning effect on the ease and speed with which policies transverse the globe. Yet the role that social movements and transnational advocacy networks play in shaping and at times facilitating neoliberal policy diffusion has been under-examined. In this article, I bring a new perspective to the policy mobilities literature, by incorporating insights from radical feminist and critical disability theorising. Drawing on the work of Nancy Fraser, I argue that in their haste to scrutinise and theorise neoliberalism as a project of the Right, policy mobility scholars have neglected the mobilising role of the transnational left. Elements of the Left have leant critical support to market-based models of state restructuring, out of concern for minority rights and the welfare state’s denial of individual agency and choice. To illustrate my argument, I use a case study of the disability movement and the policy model of individualised funding, which is driving the current trend towards greater marketisation in the provision of disability services.

对于经济地理学家和批判政策学者来说，新自由主义政策如何以及为什么在政治管辖区中传播是一个基本问题。受政策流动性方法启发的许多说法都指出，新自由主义对政策遍及全球的难易程度和速度具有调节作用。然而，人们对社会运动和跨国倡导网络在塑造和有时促进新自由主义政策传播中所扮演的角色的研究尚未得到充分研究。在本文中，我将激进的女权主义和严重残疾理论推论相结合，从而为政策动向文献带来了新的视角。我以南希·弗雷泽（Nancy Fraser）的工作为依据，认为他们急于将新自由主义作为“权利”计划进行审查和理论化，政策流动性学者忽略了跨国左派的动员作用。出于对少数群体权利的关注以及福利国家对个人代理和选择的否定，左翼分子对基于市场的国家重组模型提供了至关重要的支持。为了说明我的论点，我以残疾人运动和个性化资金政策模型为例，这正在推动当前在提供残疾人服务方面走向更大市场化的趋势。