Performing Capital: Toward a Cultural Economy of Popular and Global Finance - Tapa dura

Aitken, Rob

 
9781403977335: Performing Capital: Toward a Cultural Economy of Popular and Global Finance
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ISBN 10: 140397733X ISBN 13: 9781403977335
Editorial: AIAA, 2007

Sinopsis

In much of the critical tradition in political economy, capital-financial or otherwise-is depicted as a ’monstrous’ or already-existing kind of structure. This books reviews a form of capital-’popular finance’-which exists in a much different way from the common depictions in political economy. This book argues that programs of ’popular finance’ are important, as a site at which capital is visible not as a macro-structural reality but as a category itself which needs to be made and performed often in the spaces where is does not already exist. In order to pursue this kind of analysis, particular attention is paid to the ways in which ’culture’ has been used as a way to intervene into everyday kinds of spaces and to develop a form of capital within those spaces. This cultural economy, in turn, facilitates a certain critical strategy and mode of critique. I argue that, unlike analyses which tend to mystify finance and the financial world, training attention to capital in these cultural and everyday contexts facilitates a genealogy of capital which can purposely make capital visible as a heterogeneous and ’de-centered’ kind of category; a category in which ’we’ ourselves are deeply implicated.

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ROB AITKEN is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta, Canada. His research interests lie at the intersection of International Political Economy and Cultural Studies. His research focuses on the globalization of finance, the culture of everyday economic spaces and the relationship between governmentality and the making of economic space.

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AIAA
Año de publicación
2007
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ISBN 10 
140397733X
ISBN 13 
9781403977335
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Número de páginas
256
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