ISBN:
0203861396
,
9781135173906
,
9781282575851
,
9780203861394
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xix, 239 p.)
,
ill., maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
RIPE series in global political economy
Parallel Title:
Print version Cultural Political Economy
DDC:
306.3
Keywords:
Capitalism Social aspects
;
Economics Sociological aspects
;
Politics and culture
;
International economic relations Social aspects
Abstract:
In several academic disciplines as well as in many concrete political situations, our attention has been 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
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction: Understanding cultural political economy; Part 1 Interrogating the classics; 1 Undressing the wound of wealth: Political economy as a cultural project; 2 Works, products, and the division of labour: Notes for a cultural and political economic critique; Part 2 The cultural constitution of economic history; 3 'To the ends of the earth': Culture, visuality and the embedded economy; 4 The culture of money doctoring: American .nancial advising in Latin America during the 1940s
Description / Table of Contents:
Part 3 Culture as concealing political economic practices5 Anti-political economy: Cartographies of 'illegal immigration' and the displacement of the economy; 6 Joyless cosmopolitans: The moral economy of ethical tourism; Part 4 Cultural futures of political economy; 7 Cultural political economies of the war on terror; 8 Cybernetic capitalism and the global information society: From the global panopticon to a 'brand' new world; 9 A perfect innovation engine: The rise of the talent world; Part 5 Conclusions/provocations; Conclusion: Cultural, political, economy; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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