Governing Risk: The IMF and Global Financial Crises (International Political Economy Series) - Tapa blanda

Moschella, M.

 
9780230367951: Governing Risk: The IMF and Global Financial Crises (International Political Economy Series)

Sinopsis

Is it trivial, or perhaps even irresponsible, to explore aesthetic themes at a time when the world is engulfed by war, genocide, terrorism, poverty, climate change and financial turmoil? Why indulge in painting, poetry or music when lives and livelihoods are at stake? Can we really afford to entertain questions of taste while concrete political action is urgently required? This book offers a passionate but systematically sustained defence of an aesthetic engagement with world politics. It argues that aesthetic sources can offer alternative insight: a type of reflective understanding that emerges not from applying the analytical skills that are central the social sciences, but from cultivating a more openended level of creativity and sensibility about the political. We then might be able to appreciate what we otherwise cannot even see: perspectives or people excluded from prevailing purviews, for instance, or the emotional nature and consequences of political events. Drawing on detailed case studies that range from Stalinist Russia to Cold War Germany and contemporary Korea, the author compellingly demonstrates how the poetic imagination can help us understand - and perhaps even shape some of the most difficult political challenges.

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Manuela Moschella is Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Turin and 'Nino Andreatta Fellow' at the University of Bologna, Italy. Her core research interests include the politics of change in international financial organizations and reforms to the international financial regulatory architecture.

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9780230236875: Governing Risk: The IMF and Global Financial Crises (International Political Economy Series)

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ISBN 10:  0230236871 ISBN 13:  9780230236875
Editorial: AIAA, 2010
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