Critical International Political Economy Dialogue, Debate and Dissensus

by Shields, Stuart; Bruff, Ian; Macartney, Huw

• ISBN13: 9780230280304
• ISBN10: 0230280307
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-03-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book gives provocative responses to recent debates in International Political Economy. It provides a much needed and timely intervention to the current anodyne discussions about the evolution of the discipline and prompts wider reflection on the nature of enquiry itself.

Author Biography

STUART SHIELDS is Lecturer in International Political Economy at the University of Manchester, UK. His research is concerned with critical approaches to international political economy and post-communist transition. He is the current convenor of the BISA International Political Economy working group (IPEG) and is on the editorial board of the journal Capital & Class.

IAN BRUFF is Lecturer in European and International Politics at the University of Manchester, UK. He has published widely on European varieties of capitalism, globalization, and social (especially historical materialist) theory. He is the author of Culture and Consensus in European Varieties of Capitalism: A 'Common Sense' Analysis.

HUW MACARTNEY is Lecturer in International Political Economy at the University of Manchester, UK. Previously, he was Hallsworth Fellow in Political Economy. He is convenor of the Global Political Economy research cluster at Manchester. His research focuses on the IPE of finance and space.

Table of Contents

Introduction: 'Critical' and 'International Political Economy'; S.Shields, I.Bruff& H.Macartney
PART I: DIALOGUE
Missing Voices: Critical IPE, Disciplinary History and H.N. Brailsford's Analysis of the Capitalist International Anarchy; L.M.Ashworth
Space, the latest frontier? A scalar-relational approach to critical IPE; H.Macartney& S.Shields
Poststructuralism in/and IPE; P.Griffin
PART II: DEBATE
New Marxism and the Problem of Subjectivity: Towards a Critical and Historical International Political Economy; R.Germain
Overcoming the State/Market Dichotomy; I.Bruff
Critical Feminist Scholarship and IPE; J.Elias
PART III: DISSENSUS
Reclaiming Critical IPE from the 'British' School; O.Worth
'What's Critical about Critical Theory?' Feminist Materialism, Intersectionality and the Social Totality of the Frankfurt School; A.Fischer& D.Tepe
Knowledge versus Power in the Field of IPE; P.Cammack
Conclusion: IPE and the International Political Economy? IPE or the International Political Economy?; S.Shields, I.Bruff& H.Macartney