Expert Knowledge in Global Trade (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Hannah, Erin; Trommer, Silke; Scott, James

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores tensions in global trade by examining the role of experts in generating, disseminating and legitimating knowledge about the possibilities of trade to work for global development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317659594
• Artikelnr.: 43729291

Autorenporträt

Erin Norma Hannah is Associate Professor at King's University College at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Silke Trommer is University Lecturer in Global Sustainable Development and World Politics at the University of Helsinki, Finland. James Scott is Lecturer in International Politics in the Department of Political Economy at King's College London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1. The language of expert knowledge: the power of discourse,
metaphors, and myth-making 1. Talking trade: common sense knowledge in the
multilateral trade regime RORDEN WILKINSON 2. The specter of Smooth-Hawley
and the global trading system: sustaining free trade through the crisis
GABRIEL SILES-BRÜGGE 3. Trade policy communities, expert language, and the
dehumanization of world trade SILKE TROMMER Part 2. The agency of expert
knowledge: the power of critical technicians, embedded NGOs, and organic
intellectuals 4. Expertise through experience: inequality and legitimacy in
the juridification of international trade disputing JOSEPH CONTI
5.Numbers: the role of computable general equilibrium modeling in
legitimizing trade policy CLIVE GEORGE 6. The double movement of law and
expertise ANDREW LANG Part 3. The substance of expert knowledge: the power
of law and econometrics in knowledge production 7. Symbolic power and
social critique in the making of Oxfam's trade policy research MATTHEW
EAGLETON-PIERCE 8. Ratcheting up accountability? Embedded NGOs in the
multilateral trade system ERIN HANNAH 9. Southern intellectual leadership
in the construction of global trade knowledge JAMES SCOTT Part 4.
Conclusion Erin Hannah, James Scott and Silke Trommer