Scandalous Economics: Gender and the Politics of Financial Crises (Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0190204249 ISBN 13: 9780190204242

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2016

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Of all of the lies, fragile alliances, and predatory financial dealings that have been revealed in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, we have yet to come to terms with the ways in which structural inequalities around gender and race factor into (and indeed make possible) the current economic order. Scandalous Economics is about "silences" - the astonishing neglect of gender and race in explanations of the Global Financial Crisis. But, it is also about "noises" - the sexual scandals and gendered austerity policies that have relegated public debate, and the crisis itself, into political oblivion. While feminist economists and movements such as Occupy Wall Street have pointed to the distributional inequalities that are an effect of financial deregulation, scholars haven't really grappled with the representational inequalities inherent in the way we view the politics of the market. For example, capitalism won't be made more equitable simply by appointing women to leadership positions within financial firms or corporations. And the next crisis will not be averted if our understandings of gendered inequalities are framed by sexual scandals in media and popular culture. We need to look at the activities and the privileges of the advantaged - the "TED women" of the crisis -- as much as the victimization of the disadvantaged - to fully grasp the interplay between gender and economy in this fragile age of restoration. Scandalous Economics breaks new ground by doing precisely this. It argues that normalization of the post-GFC economic order in the face of its obvious breakdown(s) has been facilitated by co-optation of feminist and queer perspectives into national and international responses to the crisis. Scandalous Economics builds upon the Occupy movement and other critical analysis of the GFC to comprehensively examine gendered material, ideational and representational dimensions that have served to make the crisis and its effects, 'the new normal' in Europe and America as well as Latin America and Asia.

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Anna M. Agathangelou (PhD Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University) is an Associate Professor at York University, Toronto and former fellow, Program on Science, Technology and Society, J.F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. She is co-editor of Arab Revolutions and World Transformations (with Nevzat Soguk) (Routledge 2013), the co-author of Transforming World Politics: From Empire to Multiple Worlds (with L.H.M. Ling) (Routledge 2009), the author of Global Political Economy of Sex: Desire, Violence and Insecurity in Mediterranean Nation-States (Palgrave 2004). She just completed a co-edited volume with Kyle D. Killian titled Time, Temporality and Violence in International Relations: (De) Fatalizing the Present, Forging Radical Alternatives (Routledge, 2016). Ian Bruff is Lecturer in European Politics at the University of Manchester, UK. He has published widely on capitalist diversity, neoliberalism, and social theory. He rece

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• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0190204249
• ISBN 13: 9780190204242
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352
• Herausgeber: Hozic Aida A.
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