Global Libidinal Economy / Ilan Kapoor [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kapoor, Ilan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic history.

Economics--Psychological aspects.

Economics.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2023]

Summary:

Claims unconscious desire plays a constitutive role in global political economy.

Contents:

Intro

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

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

Chapter 6 Financialization: The Psychopathologies of Fictitious Capital

Financialization: Fictitious Capital

Enjoying Money

Enjoying Risk

Sociopolitical Implications

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

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

Transformative Politics

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438493374

1438493371

OCLC:

1376932894