PIED5527M
Module Reading List
Dr Charlie Dannreuther
C.Dannreuther@leeds.ac.uk
Tutor information is taken from the Module Catalogue
- Week one (all tutors):
- Global Challenges and Crises: How did we Get Here?
- Week two (Ian & Jorg):
- History and Capitalism: The Development of the World System: Colonialism, Violence and Extraction
- Please refer to guidance from your lecturers
- Week Three : History and Capitalism (Ian and Christine): US Hegemony and Globalisation of the North and South .
- Week Four Owain & Christine: Viewing GPE and Present Challenges: Realism to Neomercantilism.
- Week Five Owain Viewing GPE and Present Challenges: Liberalism/Neoliberalism and the Rise of Global Markets and Neoliberal Capitalism
- Week Eight
- Week Nine Lecture 9 The Body, Place, Risk and Enterprise – Charlie
- Week Ten Lecture 10: Health, Planet and Climate Change (Ian and Owain).
Core text books:
David N. Balaam & Bradford Dillman. 2018 Introduction to International Political Economy, 7th Edition Routledge - (this book is useful for those not familiar with some of the basic concepts and key terms used in political economy and GPE).
Ravenhill, John. 2020 Global Political Economy Sixth Edition – (Ravenhill is a standard textbook used in the teaching of GPE, and is slightly higher level that Balaam and Dillman).
Erik Andersson. 2020 Reconstructing the Global Political Economy An Analytical Guide Bristol UP (This book is geared to addressing how theories and concepts in GPE can be mobilised to understand and address the key challenges facing the world, such as climate change and inequality, taking an uo-to-date and intersectional approach to GPE).
see further various GPE books:
Dunn, Bill (2009) Global political economy: a Marxist critique
O'Brien and Williams (2020) Global Political Economy, 6th edition
Upadhyay& Singh (2021) Global Political Economy A Critique of Contemporary Capitalism
Cohn & Hira (2021) Global Political Economy: Theory and Practice, 8th edition
Randall Germain, ed. (2016) Susan Strange and the Future of Global Political Economy Power, Control and Transformation
Ravenhill (2020) Global Political Economy, Sixth Edition
Alan Cafruny, Leila Simona, Talani Gonzalo, Pozo Martin eds (2016) The Palgrave Handbook of Critical International Political Economy
Timothy M. ShawLaura C. Mahrenbach eds (2019) The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary International Political Economy
and further relevant parts here:
Veltmeyer & Bowles eds (2021) The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies
See furthermore for general use during your studies these concept and introductory books:
Andrew Heywood, Key concepts in politics
Andrew Heywood, Politics
Ken Roberts, Key concepts in sociology
Andrew Levine, Political keywords : a guide for students, activists, and everyone else
Thomas Diez et al., Key concepts in international relations
Martin Griffiths et al., International relations theory for the twenty-first century : an introduction
Robert Leach, The politics companion
The concise Oxford dictionary of politics
A dictionary of sociology [electronic resource]
A dictionary of critical theory
The Penguin dictionary of international relations
The Penguin dictionary of critical theory
Berenskoetter (2016) Concepts in World Politics
David A. Baldwin ed. (1996) Key concepts in International Political Economy
Week one (all tutors):
Global Challenges and Crises: How did we Get Here?
What is GPE?
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Martin Bennett, R. & D. Johnson 2021 “International Political Economy: Overview and Conceptualization” OUP
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Susan Strange, States and Markets (second edition, Blackwell 1988), prologue and chapter one (Canvas).
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Panitch, Leo, and Sam Gindin. "The making of global capitalism." In Power and Inequality, pp. 237-244. Routledge, 2021.
How does GPE conceive of capitalism and crisis?
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Robinson, William I. Global capitalism and the crisis of humanity. Cambridge University Press, 2014. Introduction and Conclusion.
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Babic, Milan. "Let's talk about the interregnum: Gramsci and the crisis of the liberal world order." International affairs 96, no. 3 (2020): 767-786.
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Stuart Hall and Doreen Massey, ‘Interpreting the crisis’, Soundings, no. 44, Spring 2010, pp. 57–71.
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Mazzucato, Mariana. "Capitalism’s triple crisis." Project Syndicate 30, no. 3 (2020): 2020.
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Sell, Susan K., and Owain D. Williams. "Health under capitalism: a global political economy of structural pathogenesis." Review of International Political Economy 27, no. 1 (2020): 1-25.
Why take the long view?
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Robert Boyer (2018) Marx's Legacy, Régulation Theory and Contemporary Capitalism, Review of Political Economy, 30:3, 284-316
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Bieler and Morton, Global capitalism, 2020. chs 7–9.
To what degree is the ecological crisis the product of political economic relations?
How does capitalism produce and exploit nature? How is the modern ecological crisis intertwined with the history of capitalism? What is the ‘Capitalocene” and how can it help us to frame the socio-economic structures of climate change?
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Moore, J. (2017). The Capitalocene, part I: on the nature and origins of our ecological crisis. The Journal of Peasant Studies 44(3): 594-630.
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Malm, A (2016). Fossil capital: the rise of steam power and the roots of global warming. Verso.
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Moore, J. (2015). Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital. New York: Verso.
How can we conceive of a world beyond capitalism?
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Fisher, M., 2009. Capitalist realism: Is there no alternative? John Hunt Publishing.
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Tsing, A.L., 2015. The Mushroom at the End of the World. Princeton University Press. (part 1 “Whats Left?”)
Week two (Ian & Jorg):
History and Capitalism: The Development of the World System: Colonialism, Violence and Extraction
Please refer to guidance from your lecturers
Polanyi, Karl, and Robert Morrison MacIver. The great transformation. Vol. 2. Boston: Beacon press, 1944.
Carr, Edward Hallett. The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939: Reissued with a new preface from Michael Cox. Springer, 2016.
Wood, E. W. (2017). The origin of capitalism: a longer view. London: Verso.
Linebaugh, P. (2014). Stop, thief!: the commons, enclosures, and resistance. Oakland: PM Press.
Wolford, W. (2021). The Plantationocene: a lusotropical contribution to the theory. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2020.1850231
McMichael (2017) Development and social change: a global perspective, chapter 2: ‘Instituting the development project’ (I also recommend chapter 1)
Bernstein 2000, ch.11. ‘Colonialism, capitalism, development’, in Allen & Thomas, eds. Poverty and Development into the 21st Century
Hoogvelt 2001 Globalization and the Postcolonial World: The New Political Economy of Development, ch.1 ‘The history of capitalist expansion’
Isbister 2003 Promises not kept: poverty and the betrayal of Third World development, ‘ch.4: Imperialism’
Stavrianos (1981) Global Rift: The Third World Comes of Age, 'ch.1: Introduction'
Waites, B. (1999) Europe and the Third World, ch.1 'Introduction and Overview'
Whyte (2013) A Global History of the Developing World, ‘Introduction’
Capps, G. (2001) 'World Development: Globalisation in Historical Perspective', in P. Panayiotopoulos and G. Capps (eds.) World development: an introduction
Webster A. (1990) Introduction to the Sociology of Development, ch.4.3 'The exploitation of the Third World: an account of merchant capitalism, colonialism and neo-colonialism'
Kiely, R. (2007) The new political economy of development: Globalization, imperialism, hegemony, ‘chapter 2: Capitalist Expansion and Imperialism’
Dunn, Bill (2009) Global political economy: a Marxist critique, 'chapter 6: The making of the global economy'
O'Brien and Williams (2010) Global Political Economy: Evolution and Dynamics, chapters 3 & 4
Wood (2003) Empire of capital, chs.2 & 5
Galeano, E. (1973) Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, part 1.1 'Lust for gold, lust for silver'
Rodney, W. (1972) How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, ch.1 'Some questions on development'
Eric Williams (1944) Capitalism and Slavery
James Parisot (2019) The Real History of Imperialism: A Comment on Recent Debates
See also https://roape.net/category/imperialism-in-the-21st-century/
Ian Shaw and Marv Waterstone. (2019). Wageless Life: A Manifesto for a Future Beyond Capitalism. Minneapolis: Univeristy of Minnesota Press.
Further readings re capitalism…
Wood (2012) 'Capitalism', in Fine and Saad-Filho, eds. The Elgar companion to Marxist economics
Wallerstein (1983) Historical capitalism, ch. 'The commodification of everything: production of capital'
Fulcher Capitalism: a very short introduction
Heilbroner, Robert L. ‘capitalism’ in Durlauf and Blume, eds. The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
Ha-Joon Chang 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
Week Three : History and Capitalism (Ian and Christine): US Hegemony and Globalisation of the North and South .
The reading below are from three different perspectives. According to each, what has been the balance of coercion versus consent in sustaining U.S. hegemony? To what extent do these authors focus on U.S. relations with the countries of the North? To what extent do they adequately reflect the experience of the South? To what extent do these authors consider the United States to be key to the operation of global capitalism? To what extent do they consider the U.S. to be imperial? Which perspective do you find most convincing and why?
- Marxist: Harvey, D. (2005). The New Imperialism. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Available online through the university library. Chapter 2
- Liberal: Joseph S. Nye, Jr, The rise and fall of American hegemony from Wilson to Trump, International Affairs, Volume 95, Issue 1, January 2019, Pages 63–80
- Realist: Mastanduno, M. (2009). System Maker and Privilege Taker: U.S. Power and the International Political Economy. World Politics, 61(1), 121-154. doi:10.1017/S0043887109000057
How can we understand the logics of U.S. imperialism and its relationship to capitalism?
- Gidin, S. and Panitch, L. (2012). The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire. London: Verso.
- Jim Krane, Kenneth B. Medlock, Geopolitical dimensions of US oil security, Energy Policy, Volume 114, 2018, Pages 558-565.
Historical Materialism, War and Capitalism, and Manhunting (Ian)
How should we understand the role of U.S. warfare in relation to capital accumulation? How might the idea of pacification unite war, police, and capital accumulation?
- Bieler, A. and Morton, A.D. (2018). Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Available online through the University library. Introduction.
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Neocleous, M. (2013). The dream of pacification: accumulation, class war, and the hunt. Socialist Studies 9(2): 7-31.
Week Four Owain & Christine: Viewing GPE and Present Challenges: Realism to Neomercantilism.
One of the most enduring concepts in politics is the idea of the nation state. This week we explore the state as an actor in the global political economy, from its traditional significance in economic theory through to contemporary debates about the role of national economic development strategies in the global political economy. We look at three of the major state-centric approaches – Realism, Mercantilism and Neomercantilism to give you an understanding of the power of the state as an actor in GPE and the theories that see it as the central force in shaping political economy.
Q1: How do state-centric theories view that state as an actor in political economy?
Q2: What are the key shifts involved in changes from Mercantilism to Neomercantilism?
Q3: How is the state and the hegemonic state used in Realist theories of GPE?
- Balaam, D., & Dillman, B. (2011). Wealth and Power: The Mercantilist Perspective. In Introduction to International Political Economy (7th ed. New Jersey: Pearson Education.
- Helleiner, E. (2021). The Diversity of Economic Nationalism. New Political Economy., 26(2), 229–238. Https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2020.1841137
Present Challenges to economic nationalism
- Paul Bowles (2020) The developmental state and the study of globalizations, Globalizations, 17:8, 1421-1438, DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2020.1724245
- Selwyn, B. (2009). An Historical Materialist Appraisal of Friedrich List and his Modern-Day Followers. New Political Economy, 14(2), 157–180.
- Lin, J., & Chang, H.-J. (2009). Should Industrial Policy in Developing Countries Conform to Comparative Advantage or Defy it? A Debate Between Justin Lin and Ha-Joon Chang. Development Policy Review, 27(5), 483–502
- Belesky, P., & Lawrence, G. (2019). Chinese state capitalism and neomercantilism in the contemporary food regime: contradictions, continuity and change. The Journal of Peasant Studies,46(6), 1119-1141.
- Chang, K., Fine, B., & Weiss, L. (2012). Developmental politics in transition : the neoliberal era and beyond . Palgrave Macmillan. [online]
History of Economic Nationalism
- Taylor, m. (2014). Conservative political economy and the problem of colonial slavery, 1823–1833. The Historical Journal, 57(4), 973-995. doi:10.1017/S0018246X14000089
- Harlen, Christine (1999) 'A Reappraisal of Classical Economic Nationalism and Economic Liberalism,' International studies quarterly 43 (December): 733-744
- Kindleberger, The World in Depression 1929–1939; Michael C. Webb and Stephen D. Krasner, “Hegemonic Stability Theory: An Empirical Assessment,” Review of International Studies 15, no. 2 (April 1989): 183–98.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09636412.2019.1604981
Week Five Owain Viewing GPE and Present Challenges: Liberalism/Neoliberalism and the Rise of Global Markets and Neoliberal Capitalism
The epoch of “global” capitalism that replaced the Cold War is often referred to as “neo liberal” with a point of transition from the liberal world and political economy of the post-war era of American hegemony. Here we examine what the term means, why it is different to traditional forms of liberalism, which it arguably replaced, and how it came to be such a powerful tool for restructuring societies, markets and the power relations around the world into a new world order. We also explore how stable it is and discuss the likelihood of its demise.
Q1: What defines approaches to the political economy of the liberal world order?
Q2: What defines neoliberalism as a set of ideas, policies and outcomes – is neoliberalism dominant if the organisation and governance of GPE?
Q3: Are there signals that the neoliberal world order and global political economy might be transformed, and to what?
Q1: What defines approaches to the political economy of the liberal world order?
- Ruggie, John Gerard. "International regimes, transactions, and change: embedded liberalism in the postwar economic order." International organization 36, no. 2 (1982): 379-415.
- Chang, Ha‐Joon. "Breaking the mould: an institutionalist political economy alternative to the neo‐liberal theory of the market and the state." Cambridge Journal of Economics26, no. 5 (2002): 539-559.
- Gilpin, Robert. Global political economy. Princeton university press, 2011.
- Johnson, Tana, and Andrew Heiss. "Liberal institutionalism." International Organization and Global Governance (2018): 123-34.
- Balaam, David N., and Bradford Dillman. Introduction to international political economy. Routledge, 2018.
Q2: What defines neoliberalism as a set of ideas, policies and outcomes – is neoliberalism dominant if the organisation and governance of GPE?
- Gill, Stephen. "Globalisation, market civilisation, and disciplinary neoliberalism." Millennium24, no. 3 (1995): 399-423.
- Connell, Raewyn, and Nour Dados. "Where in the world does neoliberalism come from?." Theory and Society 43, no. 2 (2014): 117-138.
- Harvey, David. A brief history of neoliberalism. Oxford University Press, USA, 2007.
- Slobodian, Quinn. Globalists. Harvard University Press, 2018
- Brenner, Neil, Jamie Peck, and Nik Theodore. "Variegated neoliberalization: geographies, modalities, pathways." Global networks 10, no. 2 (2010): 182-222.
- Dean, Mitchell. "Rethinking neoliberalism." Journal of sociology50, no. 2 (2014): 150-163.
- Venugopal, Rajesh. "Neoliberalism as concept." Economy and Society44, no. 2 (2015): 165-187.
Q3: Are there signals that the neoliberal world order and global political economy might be transformed, and to what?
- Bregman, Rutger. "The neoliberal era is ending. What comes next?." The Correspondent14 (2020).
- Saad-Filho, Alfredo. "From COVID-19 to the End of Neoliberalism." El trimestre económico87, no. 348 (2020): 1211-1229.
- Peck, Jamie, and Nik Theodore. "Still neoliberalism?." South Atlantic Quarterly118, no. 2 (2019): 245-265.
- Jessop, Bob. "Authoritarian neoliberalism: Periodization and critique." South Atlantic Quarterly118, no. 2 (2019): 343-361.
- Crouch, Colin 2011. The strange non-death of neo-liberalism. Polity,.
Lecture 6 Viewing GPE and Present Challenges: Marxism/Neo-Gramscians, Historical Sociology/Institutionalism - Owain
Marxist and Neo-Gramscian approaches were central to developing many elements of critical political economy. In this week we will explore ideas of hegemony and world order from Marxian perspectives, including historical materialist accounts of the relations between states and firms, regulation and institutions Institutions, such as markets, governments, firms and unions, are central to the way economies work. They defend property rights, manage markets and exploit power relations that they are designed to defend.
Q1: What are the basic building blocks and features of Marxian analysis of GPE?
Q2: What is involved in Neo-Gramscian perspectives on political economy and why id hegemony so important?
Q3: Why and how do institutions mater?
Q1: What are the basic building blocks and features of Marxian analysis of GPE?
Burnham, Peter. "Marx, international political economy and globalisation." Capital & Class25, no. 3 (2001): 103-112.
Helleiner, Eric. "Globalising the classical foundations of IPE thought." Contexto Internacional37 (2015): 975-1010.
Drainville, André C. "International political economy in the age of open Marxism." Review of International Political Economy1, no. 1 (1994): 105-132.
Ravenhill, John, ed. Global political economy. Oxford University Press, 2017.
El-Ojeili, Chamsy. "Reflections on Wallerstein: The modern world-system, four decades on." Critical Sociology 41, no. 4-5 (2015): 679-700.
Cox, Robert, Power and Production. "World Order." New York(1987).
Q2: What is involved in Neo-Gramscian perspectives on political economy and why id hegemony so important?
Bieler, Andreas, and Adam David Morton. "A critical theory route to hegemony, world order and historical change: neo-Gramscian perspectives in International Relations." Capital & class 28, no. 1 (2004): 85-113.
Shields S., Bruff I., Macartney H. (2011) Introduction: ‘Critical’ and ‘International Political Economy’. In: Shields S., Bruff I., Macartney H. (eds) Critical International Political Economy. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London.
Gill, Stephen. "Historical materialism, Gramsci, and international political economy." In The New International Political Economy, pp. 51-75. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1991.
Cox, Robert W. "Gramsci, hegemony and international relations: an essay in method." Millennium 12, no. 2 (1983): 162-175.
Overbeek, Henk. "Transnational historical materialism:‘neo-Gramscian’theories of class formation and world order." In Global Political Economy, pp. 180-194. Routledge, 2013.
Why institutions matter
Hall, P. A., & Soskice, D. W. (2001). Varieties of capitalism the institutional foundations of comparative advantage . Oxford University Press.
Iversen, Torben, and David Soskice. Democracy and Prosperity : Reinventing Capitalism Through a Turbulent Century, Princeton University Press, 2019.ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/leeds/detail.action?docID=5574697.
Williamson, O.E., 1979. Transaction-cost economics: the governance of contractual relations. The journal of Law and Economics, 22(2), pp.233-261.
Busemeyer, M., & Thelen, K. (2020). Institutional Sources of Business Power. World Politics, 72(3), 448-480. doi:10.1017/S004388712000009X
Fioretos, K. O., Falleti, T. G., & Sheingate, A. D. (2016). The Oxford handbook of historical institutionalism . Oxford University Press, particularly Karen J. Alter ‘The Limits of Institutional Reform in the United States and the Global Trade Regime’ and Judith Goldstein and Robert Gulotty ‘Incremental Origins of Bretton Woods’.
Property rights as institutions
Douglass C. North and Barry r. Weingast Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth-Century England THE JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY VOLUME XLIX DECEMBER 1989 NUMBER4
Geoffrey Hodgson 2017 1688 and all that: property rights, the Glorious Revolution and the rise of British capitalism Journal of Institutional Economics (2017), 13: 1, 79–107
Fordism and post Fordism
Amin, A. ed., 2011. Post-Fordism: a reader. John Wiley & Sons.
Hirst, P. and Zeitlin, J., 1989. Flexible specialisation and the competitive failure of UK manufacturing. The Political Quarterly, 60(2), pp.164-178.
Iversen, T. and Soskice, D., 2010. Real exchange rates and competitiveness: The political economy of skill formation, wage compression, and electoral systems. American Political Science Review, 104(3), pp.601-623.
Innovation and Institutions
Nelson, R.R. and Nelson, K., 2002. Technology, institutions, and innovation systems. Research policy, 31(2), pp.265-272.
Lundvall, B.Å., Johnson, B., Andersen, E.S. and Dalum, B., 2002. National systems of production, innovation and competence building. Research policy, 31(2), pp.213-231.
The problems of institutional analysis
Bruff, I. and Ebenau, M., 2014. Critical political economy and the critique of comparative capitalisms scholarship on capitalist diversity. Capital & Class, 38(1), pp.3-15.
Bruff, I., 2021. The politics of comparing capitalisms. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, p.0308518X21997125.
Belfrage, C. and Kallifatides, M., 2018. Financialisation and the new Swedish model. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 42(4), pp.875-900.
Exercise – what is Eurocentric about this collection?
Charles Edquist, ‘Systems of Innovation: Perspectives and Challenges,’ The Oxford Handbook of Innovation, Chapter 7, Edited by Jan Fagerberg and David C. Mowery. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Week Seven Charlie and Jorg Decolonising the Canon - Theory and Practice. (via Feminist and Racial Capitalism Critique of IPE and capitalism).
On Eurocentrism in GPE:
Williams. David 2020 Progress Pluralism and Politics – Liberalism and Colonialism Past and Present McQill -Queens U Press
Khondker, Habibul Haque (2021). Eurasian globalization: past and present, Globalizations, 18:5, 707-719, DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2020.1842085
Gurminder K. Bhambra ( 2021) Colonial global economy: towards a theoretical reorientation of political economy, Review of International Political Economy, 28:2, 307-322, DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2020.1830831
Hobson JM (2012a) Part 1 — revealing the Eurocentric foundations of IPE: A critical historiography of the discipline from the classical to the modern era. Review of International Political Economy 20(5): 1024–1054.
Hobson, J. (2013). Part 2 - Reconstructing the non-Eurocentric foundations of IPE: From Eurocentric “open economy politics” to inter-civilizational political economy. Review of International Political Economy : RIPE, 20(5), 1055–1081
Monika Thakur, Navigating Multiple Identities: Decentering International Relations, International Studies Review, Volume 23, Issue 2, June 2021, Pages 409–433,
Racism & IR/dev studies:
Olivia U. Rutazibwa 2020 "Hidden in Plain Sight: Coloniality, Capitalism and Race/ism as Far as the Eye Can See" Millennium, vol. 48, 2: pp. 221-241
Meera Sabaratnam (2020) Is IR Theory White? Racialised Subject-Positioning in Three Canonical Texts Volume: 49 issue: 1, page(s): 3-31
Eiman O. Zein-Elabdin, Economics, postcolonial theory and the problem of culture: institutional analysis and hybridity, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 33, Issue 6, November 2009, Pages 1153–1167,
Meera Sabaratnam IR in Dialogue… but can we change the subjects? A typology of decolonising strategies for the study of world politics1Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 39:3, 781-803
L Robtel Neajai Pailey (2019) De-centring the ‘White Gaze’ of Development, Development and change
Blog group read: Why Is Mainstream International Relations Blind to Racism?
How are GPE concepts eurocentric?
Leander, A. (2009) Why we need multiple stories about the global political economy, Review of International Political Economy , 16:2, 321-328, DOI: 10.1080/09692290902718486
Lisa Tilley and Robbie Shilliam (eds.), 2018"Special Issue: Raced Markets", New Political Economy 23 (5),
Dannreuther, C. and Kessler, O., 2017. Racialised futures: On risk, race and finance. Millennium, 45(3), pp.356-379.
Gender and GPE
P Singh (2020): Race, culture, and economics: an example from North-South trade relations, Review of International Political Economy, DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2020.1771612
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1191/1464993406ps123ed
https://oxfamapps.org/fp2p/does-development-have-a-problem-with-racism/
eg his book whiteness
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/development/events/2017/feb/race-and-development-studies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLBttM0vE2o
“Come to Africa: A Hermeneutic of Race in International Theory,” Alternatives, vol.26, no.4 (December 2001), pp.425-448.
https://sibagrovogui.com/books-and-articles/
she is also a voice in this debate
Marshall, J. (2020) Postcolonial paradoxes, ambiguities of self-determination and Adom Getachew’s Worldmaking After Empire. Millennium: Journal of International Studies. First Online
https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/dsa2021/p/10064
Week Eight
- Graham Harrison (2019) ‘Authoritarian neoliberalism and capitalist transformation in Africa: all pain, no gain’, Globalizations, 16:3, 274-88.
- Harrision (2020) Developmentalism - The Normative and Transformative within Capitalism ; see also: 2020 The normative, transformative, politics of capitalist developmen; https://www.ppesydney.net/the-normative-transformative-politics-of-capitalist-development/
- Keith Breckenridge & Deborah James (2021) ‘Recentring the margins: Theorizing African capitalism after 50 years’, Economy and Society, 50:1, 1-8
- Keith Breckenridge (2021) What happened to the theory of African capitalism?, Economy and Society, 50:1, 9-35
- Grieve Chelwa (2021) Does economics have an ‘Africa problem’?, Economy and Society, 50:1, 78-99
- Franklin Obeng-Odoom (2019) The intellectual marginalisation of Africa, African Identities, 17:3-4, 211-224
- Stefan Ouma (2017) The difference that ‘capitalism’ makes: on the merits and limits of critical political economy in African Studies, ROAPE, 44:153, 499-509 (& 2016: Capitalism in Africa – A Critique of Critical Political Economy; & 2020 'Africapitalism' and the limits of any variant of capitalism)
- Horman Chitonge (2018) Capitalism in Africa: mutating capitalist relations and social formations, ROAPE, 45:155, 158-167 (& Capitalism in Africa: The Old and the New Lyrics, 2017)
- Jörg Wiegratz (2018) The Great Lacuna: Capitalism in Africa
- Jörg Wiegratz (2019) Capitalism and Its Discontents: My Observations in Uganda and Kenya (theelephant.info)
- Elísio Macamo (2016) Blinded by Capitalism: Words that think (for us)
- Tim Di Muzio (2018) Africa and Capital as Power
- Moses E. Ochonu (2020) African Entrepreneurship: the fetish of personal responsibility
- Jean Copans (2020) Have the social classes of yesterday vanished from Africanist issues or are African societies made up of new classes? A French anthropologist’s perspective, ROAPE, 47:163, 10-26
- Vishnu Padayachee, ed The Political Economy of Africa
- Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba & Toyin Falola, eds. The Palgrave Handbook of African Political Economy
- Wale Adebanwi, ed. The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa: Beyond the Margins
- Célestin Monga and Justin Yifu Lin eds (2015) The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics: Volume 1: Context and Concepts
- Célestin Monga and Justin Yifu Lin eds (2015) The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics: Volume 2: Policies and Practices
- Thandika Mkandawire & Charles C. Soludo eds. (1999) Our Continent Our Future. African Perspectives on Structural Adjustment, Dakar, CODESRIA
- Cramer, Sender and Oqubay (2020) African Economic Development: Theory, evidence and policy
Finance/infrastructure/cities/real estate
- Ewa Karwowski (2021) Commercial finance for development: a back door for financialisation, ROAPE
- Pritish Behuria 2020) The Ominous Rise of African Financial Centres: The Case of Mauritius
- Tom Goodfellow (2020) Finance, infrastructure and urban capital: the political economy of African ‘gap-filling’, Review of African Political Economy, 47:164, 256-274 (& African Capitalisms, Infrastructure and Urban Real Estate, 2018)
- Tom Gillespie (2020) African Cities: capitalism’s urban frontier (The real estate frontier, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 44, 4, p. 599-616, 2020)
- Joe Williams (2021) “Money is Not the Problem”: The Slow Financialisation of Kenya’s Water Sector, Antipode
- Bateman et al. (2019) Another False Messiah: The Rise and Rise of Fin-tech in Africa
- Bateman (2018) The Dangerous Rise of the Digital Utopians Across Africa
- Mario Schmidt (2019) Gambling against the Kenyan State
- Ali Bhagat (2019) Experimental Neoliberalism and Refugee Survival in Kenya
- Stefan Ouma (2020) Farming as Financial Asset: Global Finance and the Making of Institutional Landscapes
- Deborah James (2021) Life and debt: A view from the south, Economy and Society, 50:1, 36-56
- Breckenridge, K. (2019) ‘The Global Ambitions of the Biometric Anti-bank: Net1, Lockin and the Technologies of African Financialization’, International Review of Applied Economics 33(1): 93– 118
Business class, labour, entrepreneurship, middle class
- Moses E. Ochonu (2020) African Entrepreneurship: the fetish of personal responsibility
- Stefan Ouma (2020) ‘Africapitalism’ and the limits of any variant of capitalism
- C Dolan, K Roll (2013) Capital's New Frontier: From" Unusable" Economies to Bottom-of-the-Pyramid Markets in Africa, African Studies Review
- Dolan, Catherine and Rajak, Dinah (2016) 'Remaking Africa's Informal Economies: Youth, Entrepreneurship and the Promise of Inclusion at the Bottom of the Pyramid'. Journal of Development Studies, (52) 4, pp 514-529
- Dolan, C. and Rajak, D. (2018), Speculative futures at the bottom of the pyramid. J R Anthropol Inst, 24: 233-255.
- Cesnulyte (2019) Selling Sex in Kenya: Gendered Agency under Neoliberalism, CUP, e.g. chapter 2
- Pritish Behuria (2021) The curious case of domestic capitalists in Africa: towards a political economy of diversified business groups, Journal of Contemporary African Studies (also: African Development and the Marginalisation of Domestic Capitalists, Working paper)
- Kate Meagher (2016) Capitalist Redux: the Scramble for Africa’s Workers
- Nungari Mwangi (2017) Propertied Proletarians? The Kenyan Cut-Flower Industry
- Nick Bernards (2019) Placing African labour in global capitalism: the politics of irregular work, ROAPE, 46:160, 294-303 (African Labour in Global Capitalism, 2018)
- Nicola Ansell, Seroala Tsoeu & Flora Hajdu (2015) Womens' changing domestic responsibilities in neoliberal Africa: a relational time-space analysis of Lesotho's garment industry, Gender, Place & Culture, 22:3, 363-382
- Lena Grace Anyuolo (2019) Kenya’s Hunger Games
- Adam Rodgers John (2019) The Capitalist Game: Football in Africa
- Rachel Spronk (2014) Exploring the Middle Classes in Nairobi: From Modes of Production to Modes of Sophistication. African Studies Review, 57, pp 93-114
- Melber ed 2016 The Rise of Africa's Middle Class: Myths, Realities and Critical Engagements
Resources/Accumulation/Dependency
- Angus Elsby (2020) Creaming off commodity profits: Europe’s re-export boom and Africa’s earnings crisis in the coffee and cocoa sectors, ROAPE, 47:166, 638-650 (Stealing Africa’s Commodities, 2019)
- Ben Radley & Sara Geenen (2021) Struggles over value: corporate–state suppression of locally led mining mechanisation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Review of African Political Economy, 48:168, 161-177 (& Radley Corporate Suppression of Artisanal Mining in the Congo, 2019)
- Timothy Raeymaekers (2014) Violent Capitalism and Hybrid Identity in the Eastern Congo
- Karen Büscher, “Urbanisation and the Political Geographies of Violent Struggle for Power and Control : Mining Boomtowns in Eastern Congo”, International Development Policy | Revue internationale de politique de développement, 10 Available online
- Christoph Vogel, Timothy Raeymaekers (2016) Terr(it)or(ies) of Peace? The Congolese Mining Frontier and the Fight Against “Conflict Minerals”, Antipode
- Simone Claar (2018) The Great Green Illusion: Business as Usual for African Capitalism
- Christopher Hope (2017) Where did the Dependency Approach Go?
- Zsuzsánna Biedermann (2018) Africa’s Dependency Curse: the Case of Botswana
- Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven (2020) Beyond the Stereotype: Restating the Relevance of the Dependency Research Programme, Development and change, 2020
- Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven, Maria Dyveke Styve & Ushehwedu Kufakurinani (2021) Samir Amin and beyond: the enduring relevance of Amin’s approach to political economy, ROAPE, 48:167, 1-7
- Alex Caramento and Richard Saunders (2019) Capitalism and Resource Nationalism in Africa
- Daniel Bin (2018) Dispossession Does Not Mean Accumulation: Capitalist Accumulation in Africa
- Pádraig Carmody (2017) Variegated Capitalism in Africa: The Role of Industrial Policy
- Al Dahdah et al. (2019) Commercialising Africa: Money, Values and Neoliberalism
- Harrison (2019) Authoritarian neoliberalism and capitalist transformation in Africa: all pain, no gain,Globalizations,16:3
Imperialism/Neo-colonialism
- John Smith (2017) The Fierce Urgency of Now: Africa’s Capitalist Cul-de-Sac
- Matteo Capasso (2020) The war and the economy: the gradual destruction of Libya, ROAPE, 47:166, 545-567 (Warring Libya: an outpost of global class war, 2020)
- Jayati Ghosh (2021) Interpreting contemporary imperialism: lessons from Samir Amin, Review of African Political Economy, 48:167, 8-14
- Tim Di Muzio (2018) Africa and Capital as Power
- Ndongo Samba Sylla (2021) Fighting monetary colonialism in francophone Africa: Samir Amin’s contribution, Review of African Political Economy, 48:167, 32-49
- Sylla (2021) Africa's Last Colonial Currency
- Scott Timcke (2021) Kwame Nkrumah and imperialist finance in Africa today
- Tim Zajontz (2021) Debt, distress, dispossession: towards a critical political economy of Africa’s financial dependency, ROAPE
- Higginbottom (2018) A Self-Enriching Pact: Imperialism and the Global South
- Daum (2020) In Defence of Walter Rodney: Workers, Imperialism & Exploitation
- Bond (2018) Towards a Broader Theory of Imperialism
- Wengraf (2018) U.S-China Inter-Imperial Rivalry in Africa
SEE ALSO:
- Sparke, Matthew. "Everywhere but always somewhere: Critical geographies of the Global South." The Global South 1, no. 1 (2007): 117-126. Available online
- Dipesh Chakrabarty (2008) Provincializing Europe Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference
- Mbembe, Achille (2017) Critique of Black Reason.
- Eric Williams (1944) Capitalism and Slavery
- Cooper and Morrell (2014) an epistemology of the south - Africa-Centered Knowledges: Crossing Fields and Worlds
- Roediger and Esch (2017) Class, Race, and Marx
Week Nine Lecture 9 The Body, Place, Risk and Enterprise – Charlie
This session explores the shift to post industrial capitalism and the associated emergence of interest in the body, space, identity politics and class in GPE. Locating the body as a site of political economy has opened up insights into how societies are reproduced, how policies reinterpret structural power into everyday life (eg through debt, social reproduction, resilience), and how places offer resources to develop new forms of collective agency. The session discusses why such strategies have tended to lapse into right wing populist fascism after the financial crisis, rather than socialist alternatives.
Main Questions
What is corporeal capitalism and what does it bring to our understanding of the GPE?
How has globalisation changed work?
Who is enterprise policy for?
What are the uncosted costs of capitalism?
Why is risk such a powerful concept in GPE?
What do places tell us about power?
What is corporeal capitalism and what does it bring to our understanding of the GPE?
- Smith, Nicola, and Donna Lee. "Corporeal capitalism: The body in international political economy." Global Society29, no. 1 (2015): 64-69.
- Braun, Bruce. "Biopolitics and the molecularization of life." Cultural geographies14, no. 1 (2007): 6-28.
- Waldby, Catherine, and Melinda Cooper. "From reproductive work to regenerative labour: The female body and the stem cell industries." Feminist Theory11, no. 1 (2010): 3-22.
- Cooper, Melinda. Family values: Between neoliberalism and the new social conservatism. MIT Press, 2017 (Intro and Chapter 1)
How has globalisation changed work?
- Genevieve LeBaron & Nicola Phillips(2019) States and the Political Economy of Unfree Labour, New Political Economy, 24:1, 1-21, DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2017.1420642
- Genevieve LeBaron & Ellie Gore(2020) Gender and Forced Labour: Understanding the Links in Global Cocoa Supply Chains, The Journal of Development Studies, 56:6, 1095-1117, DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2019.1657570
- Gill, R. and Donaghue, N., 2016, January. Resilience, apps and reluctant individualism: Technologies of self in the neoliberal academy. In Women's Studies International Forum(Vol. 54, pp. 91-99). Pergamon.
Who is enterprise policy for?
- Dannreuther, C., 2007. A Zeal for a Zeal? SME Policy and the Political Economy of the EU. Comparative European Politics, 5(4), pp.377-399.
- Perren, L. and Jennings, P.L., 2005. Government discourses on entrepreneurship: Issues of legitimization, subjugation, and power. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 29(2), pp.173-184.
- Coad, Alex and Nightingale, Paul (2014) Muppets and gazelles: political and methodological biases in entrepreneurship research. Industrial and Corporate Change, 23 (1). pp. 113-143.
What are the uncosted costs of capitalism?
- Bakker I, Gill S. Rethinking power, production, and social reproduction: Toward variegated social reproduction. Capital & Class. 2019;43(4):503-523
- Bakker, I., 2007. Social reproduction and the constitution of a gendered political economy. New Political Economy, 12(4), pp.541-556.
- Shirin M. Rai, Catherine Hoskyns & Dania Thomas (2014) Depletion, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 16:1, 86-105
Why is risk such a powerful concept in GPE?
- Lazzarato, M., 2012. The making of the indebted man: An essay on the neoliberal condition.
- Amoore, L. (2004) Risk, reward and discipline at work, Economy and Society, 33:2, 174-196
- Dannreuther, C. and Lekhi, R., 2000. Globalization and the political economy of risk. Review of International Political Economy, 7(4), pp.574-594.
- Fisher, M., 2009. Capitalist realism: Is there no alternative?. John Hunt Publishing.
- Ferguson, I., 2017. Politics of the mind: Marxism and mental distress. Bookmarks Publications.
http://www.psychchange.org/psychologists-against-austerity.html
https://antipodeonline.org/2019/03/07/shrinking-worlds-austerity-and-depression/
What do places tell us about power?
- Ash Amin & Ronen Palan (2001) Towards a non-rationalist international political economy, Review of International Political Economy, 8:4, 559-577
- Adkins L, Cooper M, Konings M. Class in the 21st century: Asset inflation and the new logic of inequality. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. 2021;53(3):548-572
- Amin A. Surviving the Turbulent Future. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 2013;31(1):140-156
- Lisa Richaud, Ash Amin, Mental health, subjectivity and the city: an ethnography of migrant stress in Shanghai, International Health, Volume 11, Issue Supplement_1, November 2019, Pages S7–S13,
Week Ten Lecture 10: Health, Planet and Climate Change (Ian and Owain).
In this week we will problematise the political economy of health, the planet and climate change under capitalism. We engage with theories and the outcomes of capitalist production, consumption and markets on health, its governance and inequalities. These are important as capitalism determines the life chances of all populations and individuals. We will critically interrogate how capitalism produces and exploits nature, moving between contemporary theories around the Anthropocene, Capitalocene, and Necrocene. We will also reflect on the history of slavery and plantations as necessary conditions for our contemporary ecological crisis.
Capitalism’s War Against the Earth
How do we understand the capitalist roots of our ecological crises?
- McBrien, J. (2016). Accumulating Extinction: Planetary Catastrophism in the Necrocene. In: Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism. Edited by Jason W. Moore. (Chapter available to download on Minerva)
- Foster, J. B. and Burkett, P. (2016). Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique. Haymarket Books. Available Online through the University Library. https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/44LEE_INST/1fj430b/cdi_askewsholts_vlebooks_9789004288799
- Malm, A. (2016). Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming. London: verso.
The Plantation History of our Ecological Crisis
How did the slavery plantation figure in colonialism? How might understanding the “plot” and autonomous geographies guide us to more equitable futures? How might we consider resistance?
- Carney, J. A. (2020). Subsistence in the Plantationocene: dooryard gardens, agrobiodiversity, and the subaltern economies of slavery. Journal of Peasant Studies 48(5): 1075-1099.
- Davis, J. et al. 2019. Anthropocene, Capitalocene, ... Plantationocene?: A manifesto for ecological justice in an age of global crises. Geography Compass 13: 1–15.
- Wolford, W. 2021. The Plantationocene: a Lusotropical contribution to the theory. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 111(6): 1622-1639
There are a series of great essays here to consult: “The Plantationocene Series
- Plantation Worlds, Past and Present”, https://edgeeffects.net/plantationocene-series-plantation-worlds/
How does capitalism shape and structure health?
- Sell, Susan K., and Owain D. Williams. "Health under capitalism: a global political economy of structural pathogenesis." Review of International Political Economy27, no. 1 (2020): 1-25.
- Sell, Susan K. "What COVID-19 Reveals About Twenty-First Century Capitalism: Adversity and Opportunity." Development 63, no. 2 (2020): 150-156.
- Schrecker, Ted. "Globalization and health: political grand challenges." Review of International Political Economy27, no. 1 (2020): 26-47.
- Sparke, Matthew. "Neoliberal regime change and the remaking of global health: from rollback disinvestment to rollout reinvestment and reterritorialization." Review of International Political Economy 27, no. 1 (2020): 48-74.
- Flynn, Matthew B. "Global capitalism as a societal determinant of health: A conceptual framework." Social Science & Medicine268 (2021): 113530.
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Hernandez, J. 2022 Fresh Banana Leaves HEALING INDIGENOUS LANDSCAPES THROUGH INDIGENOUS SCIENCE North Atlantic Books
Lecture 11 Uncertain Times: Challenges, Resistance and Transformation
All
This session will be a summary of the module and in particular a chance to discuss themes and debates that you the students choose. What kind of themes would you like to see developed more? Are there topics you would like to have seen more on? Have you noticed any areas of disagreement that you want to highlight between your module tutors J? Most importantly this is a chance for you to clarify any themes or links that you missed or forgot. We all benefit from such discussions and look forward to hearing you identify real gaps in the literature and new research questions for us all to consider.
There is no reading list for this week, just a couple of prompts for you beneath. However we would like you to prepare a series of questions that link to discussions held during the course of the module. Think about who you want to ask and how your question links to the literature presented in the reading list or to references you have found yourself.
- Bregman, Rutger. "The neoliberal era is ending. What comes next?." The Correspondent14 (2020).
- Gill, Stephen R., and Solomon R. Benatar. "Reflections on the political economy of planetary health." Review of International Political Economy 27, no. 1 (2020): 167-190.
This list was last updated on 05/12/2021