Everyday Politics of the World Economy

by Edited by John M. Hobson , Leonard Seabrooke

• ISBN13: 9780521701631
• ISBN10: 0521701635
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-12-03
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

How do our everyday actions shape and transform the world economy? This volume of original essays argues that current scholarship in international political economy (IPE) is too highly focused on powerful states and large international institutions. The contributors examine specific forms of 'everyday' actions to demonstrate how small-scale actors and their decisions can shape the global economy. They analyse a range of seemingly ordinary or subordinate actors, including peasants, working classes and trade unions, lower-middle and middle classes, female migrant labourers and Eastern diasporas, and examine how they have agency in transforming their political and economic environments. This book offers a novel way of thinking about everyday forms of change across a range of topical issues including globalisation, international finance, trade, taxation, consumerism, labour rights and regimes. It will appeal to students and scholars of politics, international relations, political economy and sociology.

Table of Contents

List of tables	p. vii
List of contributors	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Everyday IPE: revealing everyday forms of change in the world economy	p. 1
Regimes as cultural weapons of the weak	p. 25
The agency of labour in global change: reimagining the spaces and scales of trade union praxis within a global economy	p. 27
The agency of peripheral actors: small state tax havens and international regimes as weapons of the weak	p. 45
Southern sites of female agency: informal regimes and female migrant labour resistance in East and Southeast Asia	p. 63
Global economic change from below	p. 81
The everyday social sources of imperial and hegemonic financial orders	p. 83
Everyday investor subjects and global financial change: the rise of Anglo-American mass investment	p. 103
Peasants as subaltern agents in Latin America: neoliberalism, resistance and the power of the powerless	p. 120
Bringing Eastern agents in	p. 139
Eastern agents of globalisation: Oriental globalisation in the rise of Western capitalism	p. 141
Diasporic agents and trans-Asian flows in the making of Asian modernity: the case of Thailand	p. 160
The agency of subordinate polities: Western hegemony in the East Asian mirror	p. 177
Conclusion: everyday IPE puzzle sets, teaching and policy agendas	p. 196
Bibliography	p. 214
Index	p. 243
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