Brassett Affective Economies of the Global Event

Trauma and the Resilient Market Subject
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-17139-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 190 Seiten

Reihe: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

Life in the financial markets is punctuated by global events. From terrorist attacks to natural disasters, financial crises to Brexit, market subjects are called upon to understand the economic relevance of events. Yet the affective politics of the global event can hold important implications for how market subjects live, and how they negotiate their political agency. Within IPE two broad positions emerge: either the event is ‘just an event’, a superficial spectacle in an otherwise straightforward story of power, hierarchy, and resistance; or the event is large enough to be considered a ‘crisis’. On this latter view, the social construction of meaning through crisis can become a fulcrum for the wider politics of capitalism.

While sympathetic to such arguments, this book develops a more performative politics of the global event, namely that the very idea of the event must be placed in question: how is the event known? What are its logics? Who is the ‘we’ of the event? Emotional and psychological discourses of ‘trauma’ and ‘resilience’ play important roles in how the global event is ‘known’, how it is governed, and how the affective dimensions of market life are lived. By identifying the contingent rise of these emotional discourses of trauma and resilience, the author de-stabilises and politicises the apparent existential veracity of the global event. It thus provides a route into understanding and interpreting the possibilities and limits of the affective turn in market life and holds implications for the classic questions of IPE: who wins, who loses, and how might it be changed?.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brassett, James

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: how does a global market come to life? Introduction: Austerity, Affect, Event 1 Political Economy of the Global Event: Crisis and Performance Part I Trauma and the Global Event 2 Trauma and Global Ethics: Affective Politics of the Event 3 Trauma and the Sub-Prime Crisis: Governing the Financial Event? 4 Trauma and the Market Subject: Performing Vulnerability Part II Resilience and the Global Event 5 Resilience and Neo-Liberalism: The Deus Ex Machina of the Future Event 6 Resilience and (Everyday) Finance: Performing Adaptability Differently 7 Resilience and the Market Subject: Affective Economies of Life Conclusion: Anticipating the Resistant Market Subject

Über Autor(innen)

Dr James Brassett is Reader in International Political Economy (IPE) and Director of the MA IPE for PAIS. He was previously RCUK Research Fellow in the ESRC Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR). Brassett works on the politics of globalisation with a focus on questions of ethics, governance, crisis, and resistance. His first book is entitled Cosmopolitanism and Global Financial Reform: A Pragmatic Approach to the Tobin Tax (Routledge, 2010; Paperback, 2013) and he is Editor of seven Journal Special Issues on subjects including 'Ethics and World Politics', 'The Political Economy of the Sub-Prime Crisis', 'The Politics of Legitimate Global Governance', and 'Security and the Politics of Resilience'. Brassett has authored or co-authored some fifty articles and book chapters.