Global Libidinal Economy 9781438493374, 9781438493398
This is the first book to examine global political economy from a psychoanalytic perspective. It claims that the libidin
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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter 1 Global Libidinal Economy
International Political Economy Versus Global Libidinal Economy
GLE and Dialectical Materialism
Conclusion
Chapter 2 Production: The Drive toward Capitalist Globalization
The Political Economy of Global Value Chains
Adding “Drive” to the GVC Debate
Gender, Labor, and GVCs
GVCs and Exclusion
Conclusion: What Drives GVCs?
Chapter 3 Consumption: Desire and Commodity Fetishism
Consumption and Unconscious Desire
Rethinking Commodity Fetishism
Commodification, Decommodification, and Recommodification in Fairtrade
Conclusion: Fetishistic Disavowal and Commodity Fantasy
Chapter 4 Informal Economy: The Unconscious of Global Capitalism
The Birth of the Informal
Implications
The Informal-Formal Dialectic: Slum Upgrading in Recife
The Establishment of Dual Governance in Recife
Recife’s Popular Economy: Emergent Outcome of the Informal-Formal Dialectic
Recife without Palafitas: Decay of the Participatory System
Conclusion
Chapter 5 Trade: Emotional Labor and Psychological “Bowing” in the US-China Trade War
Theorizing the Dynamics of the US-China Trade War
Introjection and Projection
Opening the Front
Trade Wars: Contesting Hegemonic Identity in Globalization
Psychological Bowing I: Wolf Warriors
Psychological Bowing II … in Secret
The Psycho-Political Costs of Bowing
Conclusion
Chapter 6 Financialization: The Psychopathologies of Fictitious Capital
Financialization: Fictitious Capital
Enjoying Money
Enjoying Risk
Sociopolitical Implications
Conclusion
Chapter 7 Ecology: Toward a Psychoanalytic Political Ecology
Political Ecology and the “Bad News” of Psychoanalysis
A Critique of Political Ontology
The Colombian Case
Redeeming the Fall in the Colombian Pacific
The Encounter between the Claretians and the DIAR
The Invention of Conservation
Conclusion
Chapter 8 The State: How China’s Belt and Road Initiative Breaks the Cycle of Race and Trauma
Theories of the State’s Role in Development
The Western Foundational Fantasy of China
Network Theory and the Libidinal Ecosystem of the BRI
Conclusion
Conclusion
Transformative Politics
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter 1 Global Libidinal Economy
International Political Economy Versus Global Libidinal Economy
GLE and Dialectical Materialism
Conclusion
Chapter 2 Production: The Drive toward Capitalist Globalization
The Political Economy of Global Value Chains
Adding “Drive” to the GVC Debate
Gender, Labor, and GVCs
GVCs and Exclusion
Conclusion: What Drives GVCs?
Chapter 3 Consumption: Desire and Commodity Fetishism
Consumption and Unconscious Desire
Rethinking Commodity Fetishism
Commodification, Decommodification, and Recommodification in Fairtrade
Conclusion: Fetishistic Disavowal and Commodity Fantasy
Chapter 4 Informal Economy: The Unconscious of Global Capitalism
The Birth of the Informal
Implications
The Informal-Formal Dialectic: Slum Upgrading in Recife
The Establishment of Dual Governance in Recife
Recife’s Popular Economy: Emergent Outcome of the Informal-Formal Dialectic
Recife without Palafitas: Decay of the Participatory System
Conclusion
Chapter 5 Trade: Emotional Labor and Psychological “Bowing” in the US-China Trade War
Theorizing the Dynamics of the US-China Trade War
Introjection and Projection
Opening the Front
Trade Wars: Contesting Hegemonic Identity in Globalization
Psychological Bowing I: Wolf Warriors
Psychological Bowing II … in Secret
The Psycho-Political Costs of Bowing
Conclusion
Chapter 6 Financialization: The Psychopathologies of Fictitious Capital
Financialization: Fictitious Capital
Enjoying Money
Enjoying Risk
Sociopolitical Implications
Conclusion
Chapter 7 Ecology: Toward a Psychoanalytic Political Ecology
Political Ecology and the “Bad News” of Psychoanalysis
A Critique of Political Ontology
The Colombian Case
Redeeming the Fall in the Colombian Pacific
The Encounter between the Claretians and the DIAR
The Invention of Conservation
Conclusion
Chapter 8 The State: How China’s Belt and Road Initiative Breaks the Cycle of Race and Trauma
Theories of the State’s Role in Development
The Western Foundational Fantasy of China
Network Theory and the Libidinal Ecosystem of the BRI
Conclusion
Conclusion
Transformative Politics
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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