Cultural Political Economy

ISBN-13: 9780415489317 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 264 str.

Jacqueline Best;Matthew Paterson

Opis

In several academic disciplines as well as in many concrete political situations, our attention has been recently drawn to the cultural dimensions of the economy, the economic aspects of culture, and the political character of both.

This book argues for the importance of a new conceptual category and analytic approach cultural political economy. The authors examine the multitude of ways in which the political, the cultural and the economic interconnect and intersect and approach this theme by:

• Examining the authority and power at the heart of cultural economic processes, and to the ways that such phenomena are deeply contested.
• Extending the cultural turn in political theory and international theory to the economic dimensions of global politics.
• Engaging fully with the question of culture in relation to its problems, concepts and analyses and arguing that culture that can link together existing debates in IPE that are currently treated as separate.

Providing a number of studies to examine these issues in context, this book includes case studies on finance and monetary advice, ethical tourism, the notion of "talent" in contemporary business discourse, the "war on terror" and the management of migration.

Spis treści

Introduction: Understanding Cultural Political Economy Jacqueline Best and Matthew Paterson  Part 1: Interrogating the Classics  1. Undressing the Wound of Wealth: Political Economy as a Cultural Project David L. Blaney and Naeem Inayatullah  2. Works, Products, and the Division of Labour: Notes for a Cultural and Political Economic Critique Matt Davies  Part 2: The Cultural Constitution of Economic History  3. ‘To the Ends of the Earth’: Culture, Visuality and the Embedded Economy Rob Aitken  4. The Culture of Money Doctoring: American Financial Advising in Latin America During the 1940s Eric Helleiner  Part 3: Culture as Concealing Political Economic Practices  5. Anti-Political Economy: Cartographies of ‘Illegal Immigration’ and The Displacement of the Economy William Walters  6. Joyless Cosmopolitans: The Moral Economy of Ethical Tourism Debbie Lisle  Part 4: Cultural Futures of Political Economy  7. Cultural Political Economies of the War on Teror Louise Amoore and Marieke de Goede  8. Cybernetic Capitalism and the Global Information Society: From the Global Panopticon to a ‘Brand’ New World Maxime Ouellet  9. A Perfect Innovation Engine: The Rise of the Talent World Nigel Thrift  Part 5: Conclusions/Provocations  Conclusion: Cultural, Political, Economy R.B.J. Walker

O autorze

Jacqueline Best is a Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. Her work combines an interest in international political economy, international relations and political theory, with an empirical focus on international economic governance issues. Her first book, The Limits of Transparency: Ambiguity and the History of International Finance, was published by Cornell University Press in 2005. Her current research focuses on the shifting legitimizing strategies of international economic organizations. Matthew Paterson is Professor of Political Science at the University of Ottawa. His research focuses on the intersection of International Political Economy and Global Environmental Politics. His most recent book is Automobile Politics: Ecology and Cultural Political Economy (Cambridge, 2007), and his current work focuses on the emergence of "climate capitalism." He has significant editing experience. He has co-edited two volumes (Direct Action in British Environmentalism, 2000, with Brian Doherty and Benjamin Seel, and Against Automobility, 2006, with Steffen Böhm, Campbell Jones and Chris Land) and one special issue of a journal (Global Environmental Politics, 3, 2, 2003, with David Humphreys and Lloyd Pettiford). He is also series editor of the Environmental Politics series for Routledge and, as of the 2008 issues, co-editor (with Jennifer Clapp) of Global Environmental Politics.