Dr James Brassett is Reader in International Political Economy (IPE) and Director of the MA IPE for PAIS. He was previously RCUK Research Fellow in the ESRC Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR). Brassett works on the politics of globalisation with a focus on questions of ethics, governance, crisis, and resistance. His first book is entitled Cosmopolitanism and Global Financial Reform: A Pragmatic Approach to the Tobin Tax (Routledge, 2010; Paperback, 2013) and he is Editor of seven Journal Special Issues on subjects including 'Ethics and World Politics', 'The Political Economy of the Sub-Prime Crisis', 'The Politics of Legitimate Global Governance', and 'Security and the Politics of Resilience'. Brassett has authored or co-authored some fifty articles and book chapters.

"James Brassett offers an indispensable analysis in Affective Politics of the Global Event that pushes beyond paradigmatic and institutional debates. Brassett shows how traumatic events do not so much disrupt rarefied structures as they demonstrate the everyday resilience (and politics) of market interactions - in the process challenging the rationalist premises that united realist, liberal and constructivist perspectives alike." - Wesley W. Widmaier, Associate Professor, School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University, Australia"This book offers a broad-ranging engagement with the affective dimensions of global events. Examining phenomena as diverse as terrorism and financial crises, Brassett shows how our collective emotional perception of traumatic events also shapes how they unfold and generate practices of resilience." - Roland Bleiker, Professor of International Relations, University of Queensland

• Preface: how does a global market come to life? Introduction: Austerity, Affect, Event 1 Political Economy of the Global Event: Crisis and Performance 2 Everyday Politics of the Media Event: Discourse, Performance, Subject Part I Trauma and the Global Event 3. Trauma and Global Ethics: Affective Politics of the Event 4. Trauma and the Sub-Prime Crisis: Governing the Financial Event? 5. Trauma and the Market Subject: Performing Vulnerability Part 2 Resilience and the Global Event 6. Resilience and Neo-Liberalism: The Deus Ex Machina of the Future Event 7. Resilience and (Everyday) Finance: Performing Adaptability Differently 8. Resilience and the Market Subject: Affective Economies of Life Conclusion

Dr James Brassett is Reader in International Political Economy (IPE) and Director of the MA IPE for PAIS. He was previously RCUK Research Fellow in the ESRC Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR). Brassett works on the politics of globalisation with a focus on questions of ethics, governance, crisis, and resistance. His first book is entitled Cosmopolitanism and Global Financial Reform: A Pragmatic Approach to the Tobin Tax (Routledge, 2010; Paperback, 2013) and he is Editor of seven Journal Special Issues on subjects including 'Ethics and World Politics', 'The Political Economy of the Sub-Prime Crisis', 'The Politics of Legitimate Global Governance', and 'Security and the Politics of Resilience'. Brassett has authored or co-authored some fifty articles and book chapters.

"James Brassett offers an indispensable analysis in Affective Politics of the Global Event that pushes beyond paradigmatic and institutional debates. Brassett shows how traumatic events do not so much disrupt rarefied structures as they demonstrate the everyday resilience (and politics) of market interactions - in the process challenging the rationalist premises that united realist, liberal and constructivist perspectives alike." - Wesley W. Widmaier, Associate Professor, School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University, Australia"This book offers a broad-ranging engagement with the affective dimensions of global events. Examining phenomena as diverse as terrorism and financial crises, Brassett shows how our collective emotional perception of traumatic events also shapes how they unfold and generate practices of resilience." - Roland Bleiker, Professor of International Relations, University of Queensland

• Preface: how does a global market come to life? Introduction: Austerity, Affect, Event 1 Political Economy of the Global Event: Crisis and Performance 2 Everyday Politics of the Media Event: Discourse, Performance, Subject Part I Trauma and the Global Event 3. Trauma and Global Ethics: Affective Politics of the Event 4. Trauma and the Sub-Prime Crisis: Governing the Financial Event? 5. Trauma and the Market Subject: Performing Vulnerability Part 2 Resilience and the Global Event 6. Resilience and Neo-Liberalism: The Deus Ex Machina of the Future Event 7. Resilience and (Everyday) Finance: Performing Adaptability Differently 8. Resilience and the Market Subject: Affective Economies of Life Conclusion