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Introduction - Social reproduction in international political economy: Theoretical insights and international, transnational and local sitings
This introduction provides an introduction to current innovative theoretical and empirical research on social reproduction. While the work showcased herein is by scholars from Europe and North America (reflecting a western bias), the diversity in the empirical cases goes some way to overcoming the focus on North American countries. The contributions vary from transnational accounts of social reproduction to the study of changes in social reproduction in the countries of the global south. The collection also offers contrasts in research on the macroeconomic level with research on the microeconomic level in order to allow for an understanding of people's experiences of changes in patterns of social reproduction.
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What is critical IPE?
[...] we explore questions already noted concerning the nature of 'critique', and whether adopting a critical position inevitably entails certain normative commitments rather than the adherence to artificial notions of 'neutrality' and 'objectivity', an issue that is all too often downplayed within IPE. [...] through the above articulation of the unifying principle of critical research, we can and should go beyond such discussions and instead move swiftly to consider the diverse ways in which critical IPE provides the tools for a richer, more inquisitive and more reflexive body of scholarship.
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‘What's “critical” about critical theory’: capturing the social totality (das Gesellschaftliche Ganze)
Critical Theory, and with it an understanding of the social totality, points towards overcoming, through their negation, societal relations of suppression and exploitation. [...] we suggest, finally, to employ the approaches we introduced here as theoretical and political puzzles, which placed on top of one another mark blank spaces, highlight shortcomings and are able to provide an impulse to critically engage with the social totality.
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The global and gendered dimensions of citizenship, community and ‘cohesion’
In this article we draw upon both critical and feminist international political economy (IPE) approaches in order to interrogate processes of change effecting specific localities in the context of neoliberal global restructuring. We give a closer focus to our interest in the global/local nexus by concentrating on issues of citizenship, community and discourse and practice on community cohesion. After setting out our framework, we develop a critique of community cohesion policies and practices in contemporary Britain. We then briefly review some of the current literature on gender and citizenship paying particular attention to how issues of material inequality, poverty and exclusion currently figure in academic debates. We conclude that gender inequality must be taken seriously if strong and cohesive communities are to be realised and that there is a need for further research that connects critical and feminist IPE to emerging critical literatures on community and citizenship.
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Disciplinary Social Policy and the Failing Promise of the New Middle Classes: The Troubled Families Programme
This article looks at the promise of the ‘New Middle Class’ (NMC) inherent in the neoliberal ideological ideal of individualising societal responsibility for well-being and success. The article points to how this promise enables a discourse and practice of welfare reform and a disciplining of life styles particularly targeting the very poor in society. Women and some ethnic minorities are particularly prone to poverty and then therefore also discipline. The article then provides a case study of the Troubled Families Programme (TFP) and shows how the programme and the way it is constructed and managed partly undermines the provision of the material needs to alleviate people from poverty and re-produces discourses of poor lifestyle and parenting choices as sources of poverty, thereby undermining the ‘middle-class’ promise.
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Austerity and the hidden costs of recovery: Inequality and insecurity in the UK households
This introduction to the Special Issue presents research on austerity in British Politics. The work we showcase employs broadly understood gender analysis from different theoretical and disciplinary perspectives to broaden and deepen our understanding of austerity in the United Kingdom. In doing so, it brings to the forefront the meaning of austerity that cannot be deduced from national statistics and mainstream economic accounts: the costs of austerity for British households in their everyday and intergenerational social reproduction. Building upon innovative theoretical work and current empirical research, the contributors interrogate the conflicted rationalities of austerity as a moral and disciplinary form of governance that, ultimately, imposes suffering and inequality especially on the poor.
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Household wastes: Disciplining the family in the name of austerity
There is a substantial body of scholarship on the role of discourses in producing the neoliberal politics of austerity, but this has tended to leave untouched the question of how the household might be implicated in such discourses. This article argues that the introduction of various austerity programmes in the aftermath of the financial upheavals of 2008–2009 has produced a new normalisation of the British household, and that much of this centres on particular narratives surrounding the concept of waste. Offering a genealogy of waste, we contend that the language and very politics of austerity are in part made possible through longstanding, historic discourses of household waste, and yet the concept of waste is in itself being reconfigured and reimagined in and through the language of austerity. We argue that such discourses serve to naturalise the systemic inequalities and structural violences of neoliberal capitalism, for they render the poor both individually culpable for their own poverty and collectively culpable for Britain’s economic and social crisis.
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Poulantzas lesen
The broad variety of applications of Poulantzas's work is underlined by contributions that combine his thinking with the thought of Foucault, Gramsci or Althusser, and which look at such varied issues as law, space and time, democracy and class struggle. Nowak here argues, seemingly in contradiction to his own intention, against the crucial insight that feminist state theory and feminist theory more generally have contributed to Marxist thinking; the class contradiction is but one contradiction in a set of equally important contradictions in which the respective 'determination' is historically specific, and cannot be ahistorically determined.
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The Myth about Global Civil Society: Domestic Politics to Ban Landmines
[...]she sets out to explain the cross-national variation of the successful anti-landmine campaigns in the UK and Germany - variations in membership, strategies and goals. Church organisations played a particularly prominent role in the campaign, which Tepe explains by the historical connections between the German state and Christian churches. [...]the German campaign was more radical than its British counterpart, calling for a ban of anti-tank mines.
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