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Imagined Economies – Real Fictions New Perspectives on Economic Thinking in Great Britain Jessica Fischer, Gesa Stedman
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Edition Kulturwissenschaft
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economy.
- Homo Economicus.
- Real Fiction.
- Neoliberalism.
- Great Britain.
- Reality.
- Europe.
- Brexit.
- Financial Crisis.
- Power.
- Culture.
- Cultural Studies.
- British Studies.
- Cultural Theory.
- Economic Theory.
- Local Subjects:
- Economy.
- Homo Economicus.
- Real Fiction.
- Neoliberalism.
- Great Britain.
- Reality.
- Europe.
- Brexit.
- Financial Crisis.
- Power.
- Culture.
- Cultural Studies.
- British Studies.
- Cultural Theory.
- Economic Theory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (180 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Fischer/Stedman (eds.), Imagined Economies New Perspectives on Economic Thinking in Great Britain
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2020
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Jessica Fischer is a lecturer and researcher in Literary and Cultural Studies. She studied English, History of Art, European Cultural Studies, and Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Freiburg, the Freie Universität Berlin, and the University College London. At Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, she wrote her doctoral thesis entitled Agency. The Entrepreneurial Self in Narratives of Transformation. Her research involves Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Postclassical Narratology, Social Philosophy and Anthropology.
- Gesa Stedman is professor of British culture and literature and the Director of the Centre for British Studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She has edited a large number of special issues, e.g. for The Journal of the Study of British Cultures, as well as edited collections, most recently on Brexit and the Arts.
- Summary:
- The way we conceptualise the economy and ourselves as homo economicus has profound consequences for our lives. The contributions to this anthology take debates about the financial crisis, about recent austerity measures or about the Brexit referendum a step further. A common denominator of these dynamics are underlying ideas of »the economy«. Each author identifies a facet of Britain's imagined economies. They connect seemingly separate fields such as finance and fiction in order to better understand current political changes. In addition, the book offers an urgently needed interdisciplinary view on the performative power of economic thought – and in this respect moves far beyond merely British perspectives.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Table of Contents 5 Introduction 7 Why Imagined Economies? 17 The Rise and Decline of Doux Commerce: Change of Experience and Change of Perception 35 The Emotional Economies of Colonial Capitalism and Its Legacies 55 Imagining Money 79 Beneath and Beyond the City: The Multiple Faces of British Finance 101 A Nation of Shopkeepers? The Idealised High Street in Brexit Britain 119 The New Democratic Economy: An Imaginary and Real Alternative 139 Imaginary Economies: Narratives for the 21st Century 157 Authors 175
- Notes:
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 http://www.transcript-verlag.de/open-access-bei-transcript
- ISBN:
- 3-8394-4881-6
- OCLC:
- 1149503423
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