Anita Hammer and Adam Fishwick, The Political Economy of Work in the Global South: Reflections on Labour Process Theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 237-241
Author(s):  
Pablo Pérez Ahumada
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Global South ◽  
Process Theory ◽  
The Political ◽  
Labour Process

scholarly journals Screening for Erdoğanism: Television, post-truth and political fear

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-354
Author(s):  
Burçe Çelik
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Global South ◽  
The Political ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Security Threats ◽  
Production Dynamics

The majority of current political communication studies focuses on digital and social media, and overlooks the centrality of television for the production and endurance of strongman politics in the Global South. By focusing on the journalistic television productions aired during the June 2018 election period in Turkey, this article unpacks the televisual logic that is incarnated in different modalities of telling and narrating of televisual genres. I propose two main themes: the ‘political fear’ of physical and social security threats, and ‘post-truth communications’ as the main televisual idioms for a vision of the future that is either secure or chaotic, that is, with or without Erdoğan. By combining political economy, content and textual analysis, I scrutinise the production dynamics of the televisual economy and the control and content of factual segments.

Notes from the Editors, July-August 2019

2019 ◽  
pp. c2-127
Author(s):  
The Editors
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
World System ◽  
Dynamic Structure ◽  
Global South ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Monthly Review ◽  
Global North

buy this issue This special issue of Monthly Review is meant both to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Harry Magdoff's The Age of Imperialism: The Economics of U.S. Foreign Policy, which was devoted to the analysis of imperialism at the height of U.S. hegemony, and to carry this analysis forward to address the present era of late imperialism in the twenty-first century. In bringing together work on the political economy of imperialism in the current era of globalized production, we seek to transcend the now fashionable view within the Western academic left that the concept of imperialism is obsolete. The imperialist world system stands not only for capitalism at its most concrete historical level, but also for the entire dynamic structure of power constituting accumulation on a world scale, which can only be understood in terms of a developing global rift between center and periphery, global North and global South. Failure to attend to this fissure would be fatal for humanity.

Work reorganization in the neoliberal university: A labour process perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 103530462110036
Author(s):  
Stephanie Ross ◽  
Larry Savage
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
New Labour ◽  
Comparative Assessment ◽  
Great Variability ◽  
Process Theory ◽  
Jel Codes ◽  
Labour Process ◽  
Process Perspective ◽  
The Way

This article maps the major changes taking place in academic work within the broader context of the neoliberalisation of universities. Recognising the great variability in the form and pace of neoliberalisation across institutions and national contexts, the article identifies a set of features and indicators to aid in the comparative assessment of the extent and effect of neoliberal processes at different institutions. The authors use conceptual tools from labour process theory to highlight the ways that neoliberalisation has resulted in academic work that is fragmented, deskilled, intensified, and made subject to greater levels of surveillance, hierarchy, and precarity. In doing so, the authors also demonstrate the importance of combining political economy and Foucauldian approaches to neoliberalism, to highlight the way that external structural conditions and subjective processes combine to create new labour processes to which participants find themselves consenting and actively reproducing. JEL Codes: J5, L2

Fair Trade Music?: Ethical Consumerism and the Political Economy of Digital Music

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Fair Trade ◽  
Global South ◽  
The Other ◽  
Digital Music ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ethical Consumerism ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
The One ◽  
Political Economic

This chapter explores how the music creators group Fair Trade Music International (FTMI) applies the ethos and methods of Fair Trade in attempts to reform how, and how much, music creators are paid for digital music sales. The term “Fair Trade” has since the 1980s become synonymous with “ethical consumerism,” a set of ideals and practices that seek to mitigate the deleterious effects of “unethical” capitalism. Yet the overall effects of “ethical consumerism” itself are debatable: on the one hand, it often improves the material conditions of producers, especially in the “global south.” On the other hand, it does so within—and therefore reinforces—the existing political-economic structures that produce what it seeks to mitigate. How does this paradox manifest in the context of digital music sales?

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