Everyday Politics of the World Economy (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Hobson, John M.

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Produktbeschreibung

How do our everyday actions shape and transform the world economy? This volume of original essays argues that current scholarship in international political economy (IPE) is too highly focused on powerful states and large international institutions. The contributors examine specific forms of 'everyday' actions to demonstrate how small-scale actors and their decisions can shape the global economy. They analyse a range of seemingly ordinary or subordinate actors, including peasants, working classes and trade unions, lower-middle and middle classes, female migrant labourers and Eastern diasporas, and examine how they have agency in transforming their political and economic environments. This book offers a novel way of thinking about everyday forms of change across a range of topical issues including globalisation, international finance, trade, taxation, consumerism, labour rights and regimes. It will appeal to students and scholars of politics, international relations, political economy and sociology,

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511372988
• Artikelnr.: 38214928

Autorenporträt

John M. Hobson is Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield.
Leonard Seabrooke is Associate Professor in the International Center for Business and Politics at the Copenhagen Business School and Adjunct Senior Fellow in the Department of International Relations at the Australian National University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introducing everyday IPE: decentring the discipline - revitalising the
margins John M. Hobson and Leonard Seabrooke; Part I. Regimes as Cultural
Weapons of the Weak: 2. The agency of labour in global change: reimagining
the spaces and scales of trade union praxis within a global economy Andrew
Herod; 3. The agency of peripheral actors: small state tax havens and
international regimes as weapons of the weak J. C. Sharman; 4. Southern
sites of female agency: informal regimes and female migrant labour
resistance in East Asia Michele Ford and Nicola Piper; Part II. Global
Economic Change From Below: 5. The everyday social sources of imperial and
hegemonic financial orders Leonard Seabrooke; 6. Everyday investor subjects
and global financial change: the rise of Anglo-American mass investment
Paul Langley; 7. Peasants as subaltern agents in Latin America:
neoliberalism, resistance, and the power of the powerless Adam David
Morton; Part III. Bringing Eastern Agents In: 8. Eastern agents of
globalisation: oriental globalisation in the rise of Western capitalism
John M. Hobson; 9. Diasporic agents and trans-Asian flows in the making of
Asian modernity: the case of Thailand Ara Wilson; 10. The agency of
subordinate polities: Western hegemony in the East Asian mirror Shogo
Suzuki; 11. Conclusion: everyday IPE research, teaching and policy agendas
John M. Hobson and Leonard Seabrooke.