Cultural Political Economy Research Articles

Ilde Rizzo and Ruth Towse (eds.): 2002, The Economics of Heritage. A Study in the Political Economy of Culture in Sicily

Ilde Rizzo and Ruth Towse (eds.): 2002, The Economics of Heritage. A Study in the Political Economy of Culture in Sicily

The political economy of culture

The political economy of culture

A cultural political economy of management accounting controls: a case study of a textile Mill in a traditional Sinhalese village

A cultural political economy of management accounting, drawing from political and economic history, modes of production (MOP) theory in development studies, and cultural anthropology is used here to inform a longitudinal case study of management control in a textile Mill in a traditional Sinhalese village in Sri Lanka. Successive attempts to impose conventional management accounting failed due to workers’ resistance. Management accounting, an embodiment of capitalist MOP and modern industrial culture, took unexpected roles when confronted by a traditional, rural culture based on Kingship obligations. The Mill was founded by the state as a public enterprise. Government interference into operational affairs was considerable and performance was disappointing, leading to pressures for privatisation . Results improved after privatisation, partly because the Mill adopted more commercial budgeting practices. However, problems of cultural asymmetry were inflamed by a coalition of workers and local managers against foreign owners, who fled when financial irregularities were discovered. The government resumed ownership and budgeting practices of previous eras returned. The conclusion examine the study’s implications for further research on management accounting in the Third World .

INFORMATIONAL CAPITALISM AND U.S. ECONOMIC HEGEMONY: Resistance and Adaptations in East Asia

This article promotes a “cultural international political economy” approach to globalization in East Asia in the so-called information age. It emphasizes the inherently discursive as well as material character of economic relations and their embedding in a complex web of different scales of action from local to global. Thus it introduces the policy discourses related to two major components in recent efforts to renew U.S. hegemony: promotion of the Global Information Infrastructure and the global expansion of intellectual property rights through the Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights agreement. This initiative has enabled the emergence of a hegemonic GII-IPR-TRIPs complex supported by transnational informational capital, trade-related committees, and state agencies. This complex has triggered several forms of resistance and adaptation in East Asia. Targets of this resistance have been the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers and the GII-IPR-TRIPs complex itself. Modes of counterhegemonic resistance have included state strategic support for the Linux movement as well as everyday tactics of software piracy. In addition, subhegemonic forces (e.g., APEC and national governments) have been acting as translating centers that help shape responses to efforts to consolidate the hegemony of the GII-IPR-TRIPs complex at regional levels.

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Culture Works: The Political Economy of Culture

Culture Works: The Political Economy of Culture

GATS and the Education Service Industry: The Politics of Scale and Global Reterritorialization

One consequence of the hype around globalization and education and debates on global political actors such as the World Bank, IMF and WTO—is that there has not been sufficient attention paid by education theorists to the development of a rigorous set of analytic categories that might enable us to make sense of the profound changes which now characterize education in the new millennium. 1 This is not a problema confined to education. Writing in the New Left Review, Fredric Jameson observes that debates on globalization have tended to be shaped by “…ideological appropriations— discussions not of the process itself, but of its effects, good or bad: judgements, in other words, totalizing in nature; while functional descriptions tend to isolate particular elements without relating them to each other.” In this paper we start from the position that little or nothing can be explained in terms of the causal powers of globalization; rather we shall be suggesting that globalization is the outcome of processes that involve real actors—economic and political—with real interests. Following Martin Shaw, we also take the view that globalization does not undermine the state but includes the transformation of state forms; “…it is both predicated on and produces such transformations.”3 Examining how these processes of transformation work, however, requires systematic investigation into the organization and strategies of particular actors whose horizons or effects might be described as global.

For a Critical Cultural Political Economy

This paper argues that, if cultural political economy is to be worthwhile, it needs to be critical of its object. In order to develop its critical understanding of contemporary society, it needs to do at least three things. Firstly, while the cultural turn has corrected and sometimes inverted economic reductionism's dismissive treatment of culture and the lifeworld, it needs to avoid reducing economic systems to the lifeworld in which they are embedded, so that the extent to which systems are responsible for economic and cultural effects—good or bad—is not obscured. Secondly, it needs to take a more critical look at the social and cultural embedding of economic activities, and at the way system mechanisms of capital accumulation and uneven development have powerful disembedding and disruptive effects. Thirdly, it needs to reconsider, rather than ignore, classical political economy, which was always cultural and is still of relevance today, even though it failed to anticipate new issues of cultural and political significance, such as the politics of identity.

Corporate Interest and Trade Liberalization

This article examines rhetoric by corporations about the inclusion of environmental issues in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). It provides a greater understanding of corporate pressure on regulatory measures by indicating how corporate actions change in relation to social movement and state actions. The author develops a cultural political economy perspective to show how issues are not fixed but are shaped by power relations and ongoing meaning construction. In doing so, he argues for the integration of theories of the firm with theories of the state to reveal the relationship between organizations and their social and political environment. The author shows how corporate rhetoric in the NAFTA debate does not fit neatly into prevailing theories of organizational and political sociology and suggests, instead, a political economy perspective that indicates a dynamic cultural process by which corporations attempt to ensure profit maximization under changing circumstances.

Beyond “Separate Spheres”: Feminism and the Cultural Studies/Political Economy Debate

When scholars debate the theoretical, methodological, and political differences between cultural studies and political economy through allusions to feminist sites of conflict such as “separate spheres” and “the unhappy marriage,” this is also indicative of the scholarly population inhabiting each approach, with the greater number of Western feminists pursuing cultural studies and neglecting political economy. In recognizing the feminist influence in the development of cultural studies, it is also important to acknowledge that this implicates feminism in an approach that often overcompensates for traditional Marxism's determinism and neglect of cultural experience by ignoring the structural constraints imposed by political and economic realities. This article traces the developments between feminism and Marxism and cultural studies and political economy, suggesting that the answer to the problem of separate spheres is not to populate one sphere at the expense of the other. Rather, what is needed is a feminist political economy that reconciles the insights of “the politics of representing the Other” with a much-needed material dimension that only a political economy approach can provide.

Commodity, Culture, Common Sense: Media Research and Paradigm Dialogue

Recent debates between scholars representing political economy and cultural studies are reminiscent of exchanges between administrative and critical researchers in the 1970s and 1980s that produced no clearly opposing valuations undergirding their respective paradigms. Little real dialogue seems likely from the current debates between cultural studies and political economy, particularly as represented in the "colloquy" between them published in Critical Studies in Mass Communication. A close reading of that colloquy reveals stereotypes at work, which contrasts sharply with scholarship applying more integrative approaches, particularly the work applying critical research and theorizing on media artifacts, media institutions, and media audiences.

Cultural geography, political economy and ecology

The ecological point of view is not a dogmatically negative valuation of the human/environment relationship. It is at first a critical assessment of the triangle humankind/its activity/its environment, along time, space, and productive relations. Thus, an ecological history of space is possible. Each model of development, before and within capitalism, fosters its own ecological crises and its own movement of resistance. The main focus of struggle has changed along the history of capitalism, according to its model of development. The present period offers a dramatic piling up of ancient and new crises. But social struggles are not only ‘against’ but for’ something. Here again, the positive content of urban struggles has changed according to the model of development. More and more, it appears that their content is about relations between people, the meaning of their activity, their responsibility towards the others. Thus, about political ecology.

Cultural studies or cultural political economy? Cues from the long revolution ...

Cultural studies or cultural political economy? Cues from the long revolution ...

Anderson, Terry L., and Randy T. Simmons, editors. The Political Economy of Customs and Culture: Informal Solutions to the Commons Problem. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1993, viii + 189 pp., $@@‐@@45.00

American Journal of Agricultural EconomicsVolume 76, Issue 3 p. 675-677 Books Reviewed Anderson, Terry L., and Randy T. Simmons, editors. The Political Economy of Customs and Culture: Informal Solutions to the Commons Problem. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1993, viii + 189 pp., [email protected]@[email protected]@45.00 Bonnie G. Colby, Bonnie G. Colby University of ArizonaSearch for more papers by this author Bonnie G. Colby, Bonnie G. Colby University of ArizonaSearch for more papers by this author First published: 01 August 1994 https://doi.org/10.2307/1243689Citations: 1AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL No abstract is available for this article.Citing Literature Volume76, Issue3August 1994Pages 675-677 RelatedInformation

ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES IN THE EMERGENCE OF HUMANKIND

Economic InquiryVolume 30, Issue 1 p. 1-13 ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES IN THE EMERGENCE OF HUMANKIND PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS TO THE WESTERN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION, JUNE 30, 1991 Vernon L. Smith, Vernon L. Smith *Presidential address delivered on June 30, 1991 in Seattle, Washington at the annual meeting of the Western Economic Association. A much longer version with detailed documentation will appear under a title of the form “Humankind in Prehistory: Economy, Ecology and Institutions” in a conference volume The Political Economy of Customs and Culture edited by Terry Anderson and Randy Simmons (Rowman and Littlefield Press).Search for more papers by this author Vernon L. Smith, Vernon L. Smith *Presidential address delivered on June 30, 1991 in Seattle, Washington at the annual meeting of the Western Economic Association. A much longer version with detailed documentation will appear under a title of the form “Humankind in Prehistory: Economy, Ecology and Institutions” in a conference volume The Political Economy of Customs and Culture edited by Terry Anderson and Randy Simmons (Rowman and Littlefield Press).Search for more papers by this author First published: January 1992 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1465-7295.1992.tb01530.xCitations: 13AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume30, Issue1January 1992Pages 1-13 RelatedInformation

The Credential Society: An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification.

Preface to the Legacy Edition Foreword, by Tressie M. Cottom Foreword, by Mitchell L. Stevens 1. The Myth of Technocracy 2. Organizational Careers 3. The Political Economy of Culture 4. The United States in Historical Time 5. The Rise of the Credential System 6. The Politics of Professions 7. The Politics of a Sinecure Society References Index

Comparative Education and World-Systems Analysis

This essay is a call for world-systems analysis of education. Increasingly, the field of comparative education is moving toward more sophisticated examinations of education in relationship to economic, political, and social forces. Studies of the ecology of educational institutions and processes, however, often fail to take into account an international context of transactions. To date, most macro studies of education have taken the nation-state as the basic unit of analysis.' An examination of the international forces impinging upon education systems is no less essential than an examination of the international economic order would be to an

Towards a political economy of Culture

Higher Education QuarterlyVolume 31, Issue 3 p. 341-357 Towards a political economy of Culture N. Garnham, N. Garnham Head of Media Studies, School of Communications, the Polytechnic of Central London.Search for more papers by this author N. Garnham, N. Garnham Head of Media Studies, School of Communications, the Polytechnic of Central London.Search for more papers by this author First published: June 1977 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2273.1977.tb01980.xCitations: 1Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume31, Issue3June 1977Pages 341-357 RelatedInformation

Economía política de la educación en tiempos de austeridad: mecanismos de gestión de la crisis en la política educativa catalan

Muchos gobiernos europeos, especialmente en el Sur de Europa, han adoptado políticas de austeridad como respuesta común a la crisis económica y financiera internacional. Los recortes en el ámbito social han afectado a los presupuestos educativos y han obligado a los Estados a gestionar la crisis con estrategias políticas y discursivas. Este artículo desarrolla un análisis crítico sobre cómo el Estado español y el gobierno catalán en particular han gestionado el cambio educativo en un contexto de austeridad. Basándose en el enfoque de la economía política cultural de Bob Jessop y utilizando datos centrados en el caso catalán, el artículo explora los mecanismos y tecnologías de la gestión de la crisis y muestra cómo la crisis, en lugar de restringir la acción política del gobierno, es utilizada en realidad como oportunidad política para construir un nuevo modelo de política educativa.