Popular Culture and Political Economic Thought

Fables of Commonwealth

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

We live in an era of economic fabling where often fantastic representations of economic life in popular culture sit uncomfortably alongside a neoliberal capitalist fairy tale that the Earth's resources can continue to be exploited into an indefinite future. Popular Culture and Political Economic Thought: Fables of Commonwealth examines a variety of animated movies, TV shows, written fictions, adventure travelogues, and Paleo archeologies (and diets) to suggest that popular culture poses a multiform challenge to the failing theories and practices of neoclassical economics. This book contends that it does so most successfully by implementing older formations of political economic thought: stages theory, bioeconomics, and a robust discourse on commonwealth. An era of eco-crisis demands a new economics. It, therefore, also requires a new appraisal of the popular imaginary and its potential for leveraging alternative conceptions of economic and political relations. This book begins that conversation.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-02-09
Mått:160 x 231 x 19 mm
Vikt:517 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781793633965

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Ekonomisk politik inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Thomas Strychacz is Frederick A. Rice Professor of English at Mills College at Northeastern University.

Recensioner i media

Thomas Strychacz writes eloquently on the intersection of political economy and popular culture. Moving gracefully across a wide variety of texts—from novels to musicals to online games—Strychacz revisits some of the prevailing economic fables through a series of innovative, thought-provoking readings. Could popular culture really help us save our planet and imagine a better future? This timely and indispensable book poses all of the right questions.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: The Political Economy of Potato Farming on Mars in Andy Weir’s The Martian Chapter 2: Virtual Commonwealths of the Great Recession: The Obamas’ Garden and Farm Management GamesChapter 3: Life in the Wilds: Plots of Polity in Harriet Martineau and Survivor Chapter 4: Challenging the Privilege of Again: Recursive Plots of Polity in Octavia Butler’s Dawn and Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight RobberChapter 5: “Should’ve kept better care of her”: The Political Economy of Joss Whedon’s Firefly Chapter 6: Feast Fables: The Bioeconomics of Turkeys and Roast Beast Chapter 7: Yak Burgers and Black Tea: Consumption, Deprivation, and the Literature of Himalayan Adventure TravelChapter 8: Histories, Hedgestories, and Herdstories: Beast Fables and Paleo Polities in Recent Animated Movies