scholarly journals Rethinking Peace Education: A Cultural Political Economy Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Higgins ◽  
Mario Novelli
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Peace Education ◽  
Cultural Political Economy ◽  
Political Economy Approach

scholarly journals Cultural political economy of Europe 2020: Jean Monnet Chair CPE 2020 and its impact

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-13
Author(s):  
Borut Rončević
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Grand Strategy ◽  
Inclusive Growth ◽  
Evolutionary Mechanisms ◽  
Hegemonic Discourse ◽  
Europe 2020 ◽  
Cultural Political Economy ◽  
Grand Strategies ◽  
Eu Studies ◽  
Political Economy Approach

Abstract The main goal of the grand strategy Europe 2020 is to achieve smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. Implementation of such grand strategy is an arduous process, which has so far more often than not resulted in implementation deficit. The article follows the Cultural Political Economy approach and is based on a premise that to successfully implement a grand strategy of Europe 2020 and its successor strategies, we need to construe the strategy as a hegemonic discourse that needs to pass the evolutionary mechanisms of variation, selection and retention. Possible mechanism of retention of Europe 2020 is the innovative educational that was developed and tested in Jean Monnet Chair project Cultural Political Economy of Europe 2020. The approach can contribute to awareness of EU grand strategies and their implementation through other programmatic documents and advance interdisciplinary EU studies dealing with the phenomenon of EU implementation deficit.

Revisiting Culture and Meaning-Making in World-Systems Analysis: A Proposal for Engaging with the Cultural Political Economy Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 711-728 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason C. Mueller ◽  
Steven Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Systems Analysis ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
World Systems ◽  
Cultural Political Economy ◽  
World Systems Analysis ◽  
Political Economy Approach ◽  
Do So

World-systems analysis (WSA) understands socio-cultural phenomena as fundamental to the operation of global capitalism, whether through geocultures that sustain centrist liberalism, the emergence of capitalist subjectivities, or by generating structures of knowledge that bound political possibilities. Nonetheless, many scholars critique WSA’s treatment of culture as reductive and epiphenomenal. How can we theorize culture’s relationship to global capitalism without assuming that culture merely “dupes” participants into reproducing exploitative structures? In this article, we offer a critical evaluation of WSA’s treatment of culture and argue that its alleged failings can be ameliorated by adopting a cultural political economy (CPE) framework, an analytical approach that has developed separately from WSA. To do so, we outline WSA’s major theorizations of culture; namely, its discussion of global geocultures and structures of knowledge. Departing from existing critiques of WSA, we discuss the applicability of CPE, which examines how discourses both influence and are shaped by the material world. Using anti-systemic movements, populism, and race-making in the world-system as examples, we demonstrate how a CPE-oriented approach permits WSA to address its major cultural critiques. Broadly, we call for a theoretical co-mixing of CPE and WSA, allowing researchers to address the alleged cultural failings of world-systems scholarship.

How Far is Degrowth a Really Revolutionary Counter Movement to Neoliberalism?

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-151
Author(s):  
Dorothea Elena Schoppek
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Cultural Political Economy ◽  
Green Capitalism ◽  
Passive Revolution ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Political Economy Approach

Capitalism is often modernised and stabilised by its very critics. Gramsci called this paradox a 'passive revolution'. What are the pitfalls through which critique becomes absorbed? This question is taken up using a Cultural Political Economy approach for analysing the resistant potential of 'degrowth discourses' against the neoliberal hegemony. Degrowth advocates an economy without growth in order to achieve the transformation that is necessary in ecological and social terms. It thus does not follow the neoliberal idea of green capitalism that already has absorbed much environmental critique. This paper argues that degrowth needs to be further differentiated in order to draw any conclusions about its counter-hegemonic potential. Three dimensions are identified for differentiating sub-hegemonic from counter-hegemonic degrowth positions: the mode of growth critique, the interpellation of the individual and the subsequent actions motivated.

The Contributions of the political economy approach: An analysis of Socio-economic development in Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Falih Suaedi ◽  
Muhmmad Saud
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
The Political ◽  
Developmental Studies ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Political Economy Approach

This article explores in what ways political economy as an analytical framework for developmental studies has contributed to scholarships on Indonesian’s contemporary discourse of development. In doing so, it reviews important scholarly works on Indonesian political and economic development since the 1980s. The argument is that given sharp critiques directed at its conceptual and empirical utility for understanding changes taking place in modern Indonesian polity and society, the political economy approach continues to be a significant tool of research specifically in broader context of comparative politics applied to Indonesia and other countries in Southeast Asia. The focus of this exploration, however, has shifted from the formation of Indonesian bourgeoisie to the reconstitution of bourgeois oligarchy consisting of the alliance between the politico-bureaucratic elite and business families. With this in mind, the parallel relationship of capitalist establishment and the development of the state power in Indonesia is explainable.<br>

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