A Critical Rewriting of Global Political Economy: Integrating Reproductive, Productive, and Virtual EconomiesMoving beyond a narrow definition of economics, this pioneering book advances our knowledge of global political economy and how we might critically respond to it. V. Spike Peterson clearly shows how two key features of the global economy increasingly determine everyday lives worldwide. The first is explosive growth in financial markets that shape business decision-making and public policy-making, and the second is dramatic growth in informal and flexible work arrangements that shape income-generation and family wellbeing. These developments, though widely recognized, are rarely analyzed as inextricable and interacting dimensions of globalization. Using a new theoretical model, Peterson demonstrates the interdependence of reproductive, productive and virtual economies and analyzes inequalities of race, gender, class and nation as structural features of neoliberal globalization. Presenting a methodologically plural, cross-disciplinary and well-documented account of globalization, the author integrates marginalized and disparate features of globalization to provide an accessible narrative from a postcolonial feminist vantage point. |
Contents
IV | 1 |
V | 2 |
VI | 3 |
VII | 8 |
VIII | 17 |
IX | 18 |
X | 21 |
XII | 24 |
XXX | 91 |
XXXI | 96 |
XXXII | 97 |
XXXIII | 110 |
XXXIV | 111 |
XXXV | 113 |
XXXVI | 114 |
XXXVII | 117 |
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accounts analytical argue banks capital Castells chapter commodification commodities commodity money complex conceptual consumer consumption context credit money critical critiques cultural deregulation devalorized developing countries dichotomies divisions of labor domestic domestic workers dominant dynamics elite employment especially example exchange family/household favor feminist feminist economics feminized financial markets flexibilization formal gender global cities global economy global finance global political economy growth hence heteronormative historically homework household identities ideologies income increasing increasingly individuals industrialized inextricable informal activities informational economy insofar institutions integration interpretive investment involves linked manufacturing masculine material meaning neoliberal particular patterns Peterson Pettman policies positivist postcolonial practices production processes profits reference reproductive economy restructuring Sassen sector securitization sense shaped shift skills social relations social reproduction strategies structural hierarchies symbolic technologies theory trade transformation valorized virtual economy wages women workers World Bank worldwide