scholarly journals Thinking Marginally: Ethno-Historical Notes on the Nature of Smuggling in Human Societies

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Tagliacozzo
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Boundary Crossing ◽  
Global Political Economy ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Crucial Component ◽  
Political Boundaries ◽  
Broad Variety ◽  
Different Sources

Abstract This essay examines a range of issues at stake in the transgression of political boundaries across a spectrum of human societies. The aim of the article is not to catalogue a vast series of boundary-crossing actions, but rather to suggest what some of the main characteristics and variables are of contrabanding across frontiers. An attempt will be made to briefly define the problem of illicit facilitation across borders, as different theorists have delineated this issue in different ways. A brief discussion will ensue on the nature of border space itself, as such spaces have been conceptualized by a range of scholars who have thought about this issue for quite some time. The nature of sources on this problem will be quickly interrogated, as the sources of reporting on illicit facilitation vary widely, and different sources impart divergent kinds of information on this topic. A brief foray into a few historical examples of cross-border facilitation will be provided, to show how contemporary contexts of this issue are connected (or sometimes disjointed) from similar notions in the past. I will then give some sense of the broad variety of global experiences of illicit facilitation, as this act is undertaken across the width and breadth of the planet on an everyday basis. I will conclude with a discussion of two interesting regional theatres – Africa and Southeast Asia – where some of these processes can be seen in more detail. I argue in this essay that it is only by looking at smuggling through a number of different vantages that we have any chance of describing this practice as a crucial component of the global political economy.

Mapping Biotechnology: From Epistemic Artifacts to Geographies of Control

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-138
Author(s):  
Michael S. Carolan
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Global Distribution ◽  
Global Political Economy ◽  
Biological Resources ◽  
The Past ◽  
Path Dependencies ◽  
Scientific Representations ◽  
Genomic Sciences

This article maps key epistemological and ontological terrains associated with biotechnology. Beginning with the epistemological, a comparison is made between the scientific representations of today, particularly as found in the genomic sciences, and the scientific representations of the past. In doing this, we find these representations have changed over the centuries, which has been of significant consequence in terms of giving shape to today's global political economy. In the following section, the sociopolitical effects of biotechnology are discussed, particularly in terms of how the aforementioned representations give shape to global path dependencies. By examining the epistemological and ontological assumptions that give shape to the global distribution of informational and biological resources, this article seeks to add to our understanding of today's bioeconomy and the geographies of control it helps to create.

A Decade After the Asian Financial Crisis: Regionalism and International Architecture in a Globalized World

Asian Survey ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 834-849 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald C. Hellmann
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Asian Financial Crisis ◽  
Washington Consensus ◽  
Global Political Economy ◽  
The Past ◽  
Asian Regionalism ◽  
Globalized World

The China-driven rise of Asia to the center of the global political economy since the Asian financial crisis under systems of political economy manifestly different from those of the Washington Consensus poses a challenge that has been met by neither helter-skelter Asian regionalism nor by American strategic inattentiveness of the past decade.

scholarly journals Territorio y población en la Raya extremeña de la EUROACE = Land and people in Estremadura border with EUROACE

2017 ◽  
pp. 191
Author(s):  
Antonio José Campesino Fernández ◽  
José Carlos Salcedo Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Context ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Territorial Planning ◽  
International Tourist ◽  
Political Boundaries ◽  
Tourism Potential ◽  
Critical Questioning ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation

<p>En el artículo procedemos a la caracterización territorial y poblacional de la raya de Extremadura, en el contexto espacial de la Eurorregión Alentejo-Centro-Extremadura (EUROACE), para centrarnos después en las políticas, planes y proyectos territoriales desarrollados en la raya de Extremadura durante el autogobierno democrático. A partir de la conceptualización de la frontera o raya ibérica y del cuestionamiento crítico de los arbitrarios límites políticos, establecemos la taxonomía y zonificación de los grandes dominios paisajísticos (montañas y sierras; valles, riberos y vegas; penillanuras y llanos) en los 428 km de la frontera de Extremadura, considerando su transformación en las tres últimas décadas por efecto de las políticas territoriales autonómicas y de los Programas Operativos INTERREG, en el ámbito de la cooperación transfronteriza (1992-2014). A renglón seguido, tras caracterizar el territorio y la dinámica poblacional (1981-2011) de las regiones que conforman la EUROACE desde su creación en 2009, centramos la atención en la raya extremeña, en la planificación territorial derivada de la Ley del Suelo y Ordenación Territorial de Extremadura (LSOTEX, 2001) y en la formulación de proyectos territoriales estratégicos del Tajo Internacional y de Guadiana Internacional (Alqueva), con sus recursos patrimoniales y potenciales turísticos de presente y futuro, que están convirtiendo a la Raya ibérica en destino turístico internacional.</p><p>Article proceed to the territorial and population characterization stripe Estremadura, in the spatial context of the Euroregion Alentejo-Centro-Estremadura (EUROACE) to focus later in policies, plans and projects developed territorial stripe Estremadura for democratic self-government. From conceptualizing the Iberian border or stripe and critical questioning of the arbitrary political boundaries, establish the taxonomy and zoning large landscaped domains (mountains and hills, valleys, riverbanks and valleys, and plains penillanuras) at 428 km border Estremadura, considering its transformation over the past three decades as a result of the regional territorial policies and INTERREG Operational Programmes, in the field of cross-border cooperation (1992-2014). Immediately afterwards, after characterizing the territory and population dynamics (1981-2011) of the regions that make up the EUROACE since its inception in 2009, we focus on the frontier line in the territorial planning under the Land Law and Management territorial de Estremadura (LSOTEX, 2001) and in the formulation of strategic territorial projects International Tagus and Guadiana (Alqueva) with its heritage and tourism potential resources present and future, who are turning to the Iberian Raya international tourist destination.</p>

scholarly journals The New Global Labour Studies: A Critical Review

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marissa Brookes ◽  
Jamie K. McCallum
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
First Century ◽  
Complete Understanding ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Labour Power ◽  
Field Of Inquiry

The past two decades have seen a dramatic upsurge in sustained, cross-border labour activism, or labour transnationalism. Scattered across multiple disciplines and subfields, a new field of inquiry – the new global labour studies (NGLS) – has emerged as scholars seek to comprehend the causes and consequences of twenty-first-century labour transnationalism. This multi-disciplinary approach has provided a platform from which to analyse an emerging phenomenon. We assess relevant strands of this emerging field that focus on: a) new theories of labour power and corporate vulnerability, and b) worker agency and organising strategy. While these areas have produced robust findings, we argue that developing a more complete understanding of labour transnationalism and its outcomes will require scholars to produce a more explicit critique of mainstream political economy, sociology, political science and labour studies.

scholarly journals Unavoidability of Sino-American rift: History of strategic decoupling

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-58
Author(s):  
Anis H Bajrektarevic
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Economic System ◽  
Global Political Economy ◽  
The Past ◽  
Human Wellbeing ◽  
History Of ◽  
Future Theory

Does our history only appear overheated, while it is essentially calmly predetermined? Is it directional or conceivable, dialectic and eclectic or cyclical, and therefore cynical? Surely, our history warns (no matter if the Past is seen as a destination or resource). Does it also provide for a hope? Hence, what is in front of us: destiny or future? Theory loves to teach us that extensive debates on what kind of economic system is most conductive to human wellbeing is what consumed most of our civilizational vertical. However, our history has a different say: It seems that the manipulation of the global political economy (and usage of fear as the currency of control) – far more than the introduction of ideologies – is the dominant and arguably more durable way that human elites usually conspired to build or break civilizations, as planned projects.

scholarly journals Contemplating the future

2019 ◽  
pp. 222-234
Author(s):  
Deepak Nayyar
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Technological Changes ◽  
International Context ◽  
Global Political Economy ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Challenges

This chapter concludes. It outlines the contours of change to recapitulate the essentials of the transformation in Asia, and highlights the major analytical conclusions that relate to contemporary debates on development. It considers prospects, in terms of opportunities and challenges, for countries that have led the process so far and for those that might follow in their footsteps. It reflects on the future, with reference to the past, to speculate how the changed international context, and new challenges on the horizon, might shape, or be influenced by, development in Asia over the next twenty-five years, addressing specific questions. Do recent changes in the global political economy have any longer-term implications for Asia? What is the likely impact of the profound technological changes on the horizon for development in Asia? How would the leading industrialized countries respond or adjust to the erosion of their economic dominance and political hegemony? Is this going to be an Asian century?

On The Possibility of an Autonomous History of Modern Southeast Asia

1961 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. W. Small
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of

It is generally accepted that history is an element of culture and the historian a member of society, thus, in Croce's aphorism, that the only true history is contemporary history. It follows from this that when there occur great changes in the contemporary scene, there must also be great changes in historiography, that the vision not merely of the present but also of the past must change.

Sozial-räumliche Dynamiken der Agrartreibstoffe.

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (184) ◽  
pp. 423-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina Dietz ◽  
Bettina Engels ◽  
Oliver Pye
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Capital Flows ◽  
Spatial Dynamics ◽  
Financial Sector ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Spatial Theory ◽  
Global Political Economy

This article explores the spatial dynamics of agrofuels. Building on categories from the field of critical spatial theory, it shows how these categories enable a comprehensive analysis of the spatial dynamics of agrofuels that links the macro-structures of the global political economy to concrete, place-based struggles. Four core socio-spatial dynamics of agrofuel politics are highlighted and applied to empirical findings: territorialization, the financial sector as a new scale of regulation, place-based struggles and transnational spaces of resources and capital flows.

The Political Economy of Local Governance in Yemen

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 45-69
Author(s):  
Benoit Challand ◽  
Joshua Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Local Development ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Past ◽  
Strong State ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Local Initiatives ◽  
Self Rule

This paper provides an historical exploration of local governance in Yemen across the past sixty years. It highlights the presence of a strong tradition of local self-rule, self-help, and participation “from below” as well as the presence of a rival, official, political culture upheld by central elites that celebrates centralization and the strong state. Shifts in the predominance of one or the other tendency have coincided with shifts in the political economy of the Yemeni state(s). When it favored the local, central rulers were compelled to give space to local initiatives and Yemen experienced moments of political participation and local development.

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>

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document