Although poststructuralism has become an increasingly important theoretical perspective within International Studies, the engagement between international Political Economy (IPE) and poststructural theory has been sporadic and antagonistic. The contributors offer a sustained dialogue on the promises of poststructural politics within the study of IPE, and move significantly beyond existing debates. Offering a debate on the meaning of discourse, identity and representation for practices of political economy, the contributors discuss, amongst other issues, the social construction of value and desire, gender performativity and political economy, the political practices of financial identity, and the ambiguities of dissent in the global political economy. The volume thus interrogates and challenges the disciplinary boundaries of the discipline of IPE.
Series Statement
International political economy series
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International political economy series (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Introduction : International political economy and the promises of poststructuralism / Marieke de Goede -- Survival/representation / Marysia Zalewski -- Adam Smith : desire, history, and value / Michael J. Shapiro -- Securing the global (bio)political economy : empire, poststructuralism and political economy / Martin Coward -- Performativity, popular finance and security in the global political economy / Rob Aitken -- Libidinal international political economy / Earl Gammon and Ronen Palan -- Getting real : the necessity of critical poststructuralism in global political economy / V. Spike Peterson -- International political economy : beyond the poststructuralist/historical materialist dichotomy / J. Magnus Ryner -- Towards a cultural international political economy : poststructuralism and the Italian school / Bob Jessop and Ngai-Ling Sum -- The political economy of (im)possibility / Glyn Daly -- Neoliberalism : policy, ideology, governmentality / Wendy Larner -- Everyday life in the global political economy / Matt Davies -- Rethinking power from the point of view of resistance : the politics of gender / Bice Maiguashca -- 'There is no great refusal' : the ambivalent politics of resistance / Louise Amoore.