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After the crisis: global capitalism and the critique of political economy

Since the global financial crisis of 2008-9, neoliberalism has proved to be remarkably resilient. Alternatives in economic policy and political philosophy alike have found little resonance, despite ... critiques of the political and social order, notably over the question of class. Marxist analyses of class have thus far failed to reconcile the traditional view of a two-class society with the complex social

After the crisis: global capitalism and the critique of political economy

Since the global financial crisis of 2008-9, neoliberalism has proved to be remarkably resilient. Alternatives in economic policy and political philosophy alike have found little resonance, despite ... critiques of the political and social order, notably over the question of class. Marxist analyses of class have thus far failed to reconcile the traditional view of a two-class society with the complex social

After the crisis: global capitalism and the critique of political economy

Since the global financial crisis of 2008-9, neoliberalism has proved to be remarkably resilient. Alternatives in economic policy and political philosophy alike have found little resonance, despite ... critiques of the political and social order, notably over the question of class. Marxist analyses of class have thus far failed to reconcile the traditional view of a two-class society with the complex social

Political Capitalism, Economic and Political Crises, and Authoritarian Statism

This contribution to Spectrum Journal is an extended version of a plenary lecture presented at the Second Spectrum conference on approaches and issues in international political economy, held at the ... looks beyond the contradictions and crisis-tendencies of the pure capitalist mode of production (CMP) as analysed by Marx to those introduced by different forms of political capitalism as well as

The Wages of Discipline: Rethinking International Relations as a Vehicle of Western Hegemony

discipline on the population. Disciplinary division of labour in academia began when the classical political economy perspective, which had been turned into a political programme of the labour movement by Marx ... , and Karl Marx) were still ?polymaths who wrote on economics, politics, civil society, language, morals and philosophy?.1 After 1870, however, economics split off as the tenets of classical political

Political Capitalism, Economic and Political Crises, and Authoritarian Statism

This contribution to Spectrum Journal is an extended version of a plenary lecture presented at the Second Spectrum conference on approaches and issues in international political economy, held at the ... looks beyond the contradictions and crisis-tendencies of the pure capitalist mode of production (CMP) as analysed by Marx to those introduced by different forms of political capitalism as well as

A Cultural Political Economy of Financial Imaginaries: the (Re-)Making of ‘BRIC’ and the Case of China

This article explores the role of economic/financial imaginaries (e.g., BRIC) from a cultural political economy (CPE) perspective. It is divided into four parts. Part one identifies some key ... on the contribution of the cultural political economy approach in understanding the role of 'BRIC' as well as other new acronyms such as 'MINT' and 'MIST' as economic imaginaries. Cultural Political

The Alchemist of Revolution: Ali Shariati’s Political Thought in International Context

This article challenges essentialist conceptions of “political Islam” as the ideology of an internally generated rejection of modernity through reconceptualising Ali Shariati’s idea of “revolutionary ... concept of imamat in a fundamentally reconstructed form: The political philosophy and the form of regime of the umma is not the democracy of heads, not irresponsible and directionless liberalism which is a

The Alchemist of Revolution: Ali Shariati’s Political Thought in International Context

This article challenges essentialist conceptions of “political Islam” as the ideology of an internally generated rejection of modernity through reconceptualising Ali Shariati’s idea of “revolutionary ... concept of imamat in a fundamentally reconstructed form: The political philosophy and the form of regime of the umma is not the democracy of heads, not irresponsible and directionless liberalism which is a

Contrived Civilizations The Western Eurasian Mode of Hierarchies Production and the (Geo)Political Origins of Scientia

assesses. It is rather a configuration of a Western Eurasian mode of hierarchies production with global projection that first emerged as a response to the cultural, political and geopolitical challenges that

Hegemony in the Making: TÜSİAD’s Hegemonic Role in the Context of Turkey’s EU Membership Process

This article aims at a critical contribution to neo-Gramscian political economy literature on agency of transnational capitalist class in shaping the global socio-economic order through the empirical ... the power bloc and over a class-divided society. This conceptual contribution helps us to depict the political agency of transnational capitalist class in the making of the neoliberal mode of regulation

Social, technical-economic, environmental and political assessment for the evaluation of transport modes for petroleum products

, environmental, social and political factors being equally important, following the concepts of sustainable development. In general, only aspects related to investment, construction, equipment acquisition and ... of knowledge expressed by environmental, political, social and technical-economic dimensions and uses technical analysis and mathematical tools that configure its systemic character (Rigolin, 2013

Social, technical-economic, environmental and political assessment for the evaluation of transport modes for petroleum products

petroleum derived products, in a Case Study. The method deals with technical, economic, environmental, social and political factors being equally important, following the concepts of sustainable development ... of knowledge expressed by environmental, political, social and technical-economic dimensions and uses technical analysis and mathematical tools that configure its systemic character (Rigolin, 2013

In the shadows of the dialectic method: Building a framework upon the thoughts of Adorno and Gramsci

Marx’s method led to a fruitless dogmatism. Adorno claimed that science following Hegel’s death science moved into two directions: (a) a clear methodology and (b) a philosophy, disrobed of the empirical ... to solve problems, that are introduced by technologies, with new technologies. The point of view in this article is that we have to dig deeper, and that political philosophy has to offer a fresh angle

In the shadows of the dialectic method: Building a framework upon the thoughts of Adorno and Gramsci

Marx’s method led to a fruitless dogmatism. Adorno claimed that science following Hegel’s death science moved into two directions: (a) a clear methodology and (b) a philosophy, disrobed of the empirical ... to solve problems, that are introduced by technologies, with new technologies. The point of view in this article is that we have to dig deeper, and that political philosophy has to offer a fresh angle

A Cultural Political Economy of Financial Imaginaries: the (Re-)Making of ‘BRIC’ and the Case of China

This article explores the role of economic/financial imaginaries (e.g., BRIC) from a cultural political economy (CPE) perspective. It is divided into four parts. Part one identifies some key ... on the contribution of the cultural political economy approach in understanding the role of 'BRIC' as well as other new acronyms such as 'MINT' and 'MIST' as economic imaginaries. Cultural Political

Neoliberal Nightmares

culture and critical political economy. This paper presents a psychoanalytic diagnosis of this unsettling scenario. Gothic monsters are identified as symptoms of the Real of Capital as an abstract form of ... political economy has been matched in popular culture, which in recent years has been filled with zombies, vampires, and other monstrous incarnations of the living dead. As Evan Calder Williams has noted

Republican Discourses and Imperial Projects: Liberty and Empire in American Political Discourse

. 102 - 03 . 38 Joyce Oldham Appleby , ' What is Still American in the Political Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson?' The William and Mary Quarterly (Vol. 39 , No. 2 , 1982 ), pp. 287 - 309 . 39 I say ... observer, this may merely be interpreted as political propaganda masking the true nature of American foreign policy; but for historians of political thought, it relates to a long-standing issue in republican

Cynefin: uncertainty, small worlds and scenarios

Uncertainty, its modelling and analysis have been discussed across many literatures including statistics and operational research, knowledge management and philosophy: (i) adherents to Bayesian ... Zadeh's concept of a fuzzy set; (iv) theories of sense-making in the philosophy and management literatures see knowledge and uncertainty as opposite extremes of human understanding and discuss the

Anglo-American Political Economy and Global Restructuring: The Case of Iraq

advance them. However, what is missing from, or minimized in, current discussions is the essentially Anglo-American political-economy that forms the basis for the creation and pursuit of these ambitions ... interests in the U.S. and the British economies, and the U.S.-British political-military alliance that supports their quest for global reach. With this as a context, the paper then reviews the history of