New Scholarship in Political Economy – serie

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24 produkter

Feeding Istanbul: The Political Economy of Urban Provisioning
AvCandan Turkkan
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
3 347 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
How was Istanbul, once the capital of the Ottoman Empire and now the financial heart of contemporary Turkey, provisioned in the early 19th century? Tracing how the sovereign’s duty to provision the city and protect his subjects from hunger was gradually transferred to the market and became a responsibility of the subjects (later, citizens) alone, Feeding Istanbul makes a compelling case for situating food politics, and politics of urban provisioning in particular, at the centre of the way we think about the relationship between the sovereign and the political community..
Turkey: The Pendulum between Military Rule and Civilian Authoritarianism
AvFatih Çağatay Cengiz
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
3 284 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Winner of the 2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title AwardIn Turkey: The Pendulum between Military Rule and Civilian Authoritarianism, Fatih Çağatay Cengiz explains Turkey’s trajectory of military and civilian authoritarianism while offering an alternative framework for understanding the Kemalist state and state-society relations. This book clearly captures the zeitgeist of the moment Turkey has passed/has been passing through: democratisation, authoritarianism, and the coup cycle. Moreover, the book not only focuses on Turkish domestic politics with regards to procedural democratisation and waves of authoritarianism under the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP), it also engages with Turkey’s recent foreign policy; policy that pushes Turkey to take an active role in the Syrian conflict through the concept of ‘Neo-Ottomanism’.
Forces of Production, Climate Change and Canadian Fossil Capitalism
AvNicolas Graham
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
3 050 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Listen to the podcast!In Forces of Production, Climate Change and Canadian Fossil Capitalism, Nicolas Graham reinterprets the concept of forces of production from an ecological standpoint and in the context of the deepening climate crisis. He argues that ecological knowledge itself, as well as associated developments in renewable energy technology and green infrastructure, represent advancements in productive forces. However, such “green productive forces” are fettered by capitalist relations of production, including the power of carbon capital.In addition to a conceptual and theoretical reinterpretation, case studies focusing on Canadian fossil capitalism provide a concrete-complex analysis of the deepening of fossil-fuelled productive forces and the process of fettering in both renewable energies and in the development and application of ecological knowledge.
Constructing Change: A Political Economy of Housing and Electricity Provision in Turkey
AvEzgi B. Ünsal
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
3 254 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
In Constructing Change, Ezgi B. Unsal provides a political economy of electricity and housing provision in Turkey. By using the case studies of electricity and housing in Turkey, the book explores how social provision is increasingly commodified across the globe as a defining feature of financialisation. Distinguishing this trend from macroeconomic definitions of financialisation, the book offers a contextual narrative of economic change in Turkey, with undetermined macroeconomic outcomes. It contributes to the literature on the financialisation of social provision and the political economy of Turkey, by confirming the increasing influence of finance on social provision sectors, making them prone to volatility while contributing to their growth at the same time.
From Online Platforms to Digital Monopolies
Technology, Information and Power
AvJonas C.L. Valente
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
3 905 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
In From Online Platforms to Digital Monopolies: Technology, Information and Power Jonas C.L. Valente discusses the rise of platforms as key players in different social activities, from economy to culture and politics. These companies have a daily presence in the lives of the majority of the world population, from social interactions to digital payments and transactions. They are gaining a central role in neoliberal capitalism, shaping contemporary sociability.The book shows how these platforms work and identifies the hidden interests behind the commercial strategies that guide the development of services offered to Internet users. It takes the specific cases of Google and Facebook and presents its historical development, illustrating how these companies turned into major players in our times.
Making of Modern Japan
Power, Crisis, and the Promise of Transformation
AvMyles Carroll
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
2 971 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
In The Making of Modern Japan, Myles Carroll offers a sweeping account of post-war Japanese political economy, exploring the transition from the post-war boom to the crisis of today and the connections between these seemingly discrete periods. Carroll explores the multifarious international and domestic political, economic, social and cultural conditions that fortified Japan’s post-war hegemonic order and enabled decades of prosperity and stability. Yet since the 1990s, a host of political, economic, social and cultural changes has left this same hegemonic order out of step with the realities of the contemporary world, a contradiction that has led to three decades of crisis in Japanese society. Can Japan make the bold changes required to reverse its decline?
Co-operative Struggles: Work Conflicts in Argentina’s New Worker Co-operatives
AvDenise Kasparian
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
2 923 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
In Co-operative Struggles, Denise Kasparian expands the theoretical horizons regarding labour unrest by proposing new categories to make visible and conceptualize conflicts in the new worker co-operativism of the twenty-first century.After the depletion of neoliberal reforms at the dawn of the twenty-first century in Argentina, co-operativism gained momentum, mainly due to the recuperation of enterprises by their workers and state promotion of co-operatives through social policies. These new co-operatives became actors not just in production but in social struggle. Their peculiarity lies in the fact that they shape a socio-productive form not structured on wage relations: workers are at the same time members of the organisations. Why, how and by what cleavages and groupings do these co-operative workers without bosses come into conflict?Co-operative Struggles received honourable mention in 2024 for the biennial Joyce Rothschild Book Prize, which recognizes significant contributions to the advancement of economic democracy.
Financialisation and Poverty Alleviation in Ghana
Myths and Realities
AvFrancis Boateng Frimpong
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
2 668 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
The neoliberal policy response to the crisis in Ghana did not succeed in reversing the economic decline in both the medium and long term. In fact, quite the opposite, rather than undoing the economic decline, Frimpong argues that the policy prescriptions further weakened the country’s ability to develop. This is because the policies intentionally and unintentionally encouraged factors that destabilised the possibility of the real productive assets to earn commensurate returns to facilitate the flow of capital to the real sectors to ensure the survival of industrial enterprises. Rising profit in the financial sector incentivised financial capitalist to divert capital into financial assets at the expense of productive investment, further decelerating the pace of real capital accumulation in the country.
Unravelling the Social Formation
Free Trade, the State and Business Associations in Turkey
AvAkif Avcı
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
2 145 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
In Unravelling the Social Formation: Free Trade, the State and Business Associations in Turkey, Akif Avci examines the role of business associations and the state in Turkey in analysing the dialectical relationship between global free trade and Turkish social formation since 2002. The manuscript constructs a three-levels analysis based on the social relations of production, forms of state and world order. It explores the class characteristics of the business associations, the role of the Turkish state in the process of integration into global capitalism, and at the same time, internalisation of the global class relations inside Turkish social formation. It offers a fresh evaluation of imperialism theories and the uneven and combined development (U&CD) approach from a neo-Gramscian perspective.
Privatization in Turkey
Power Bloc, Capital Accumulation and State
AvAhmet Zaifer
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
2 145 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
In Privatization in Turkey: Power Bloc, Capital Accumulation and State, Ahmet Zaifer offers a rare look on privatization in Turkey that involves all three historical periods of Turkish privatization process -1980s and 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s- and covers different forms of privatization from divestiture to public-private partnership. Benefiting from theoretically informed qualitative research spanning nearly a decade that has involved several interviews with key informant groups, extensive review of newspaper articles and detailed analysis of annual reports of businesses, Ahmet Zaifer convincingly proves that the acceleration of privatization in Turkey has not only provided advantages to so-called favourable capital groups and the government elites, but also consolidated the position of Capital in General at the expense of labouring-popular classes and the natural environment of the entire country.
Public Health Systems in the Age of Financialization
Lessons from the Center and the Periphery
AvAna Carolina Lot Canellas Cordilha
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
2 563 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
In Public Health Systems in the Age of Financialization, Ana Carolina Cordilha unpacks policy shifts that have transformed public health systems into vehicles for financial speculation and capital accumulation. While it is commonly thought that these systems are being cut back in the period of financialization, the author shows that current changes in public health financing go far beyond budget cuts and privatization measures. She examines how public health systems are adopting financial instruments and participating in financial accumulation strategies, with harmful impacts on transparency, democratic accountability, and health service provision. With an in-depth study of both the French and Brazilian systems, Cordilha explores the different ways in which this process unfolds in central and peripheral countries.
Shifting Ground of Globalization
Labor and Mineral Extraction at Vale S.A.
AvThiago Aguiar
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
2 719 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
The Shifting Ground of Globalization: Labor and Mineral Extraction at Vale S.A. describes the transformation of the formerly state-owned Brazilian mining company into a Transnational Corporation, global leader in iron ore and nickel extraction. Through ethnographic research in Brazil and Canada, in places as different as Carajás, in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, and Sudbury, in northern Ontario, Thiago Aguiar dialogues with the theories of global capitalism and takes the case of the largest Latin American company as a telling example of the integration of the Brazilian economy into capitalist globalization and its consequences for workers, communities, and the environment in the first decades of the twenty-first century – when many celebrated the BRICS as an alternative to neoliberal globalization.
Brazilian Bourgeoisie and Foreign Policy
AvTatiana Berringer
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
2 515 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
What were the changes in the international position of the Brazilian state during the Lula and Cardoso administrations? How were the classes and class fractions represented? These are the questions that Tatiana Berringer's work seeks to answer. Using the theoretical instruments of the Marxist Nicos Poulantzas, the book identifies the class interests that directed the international action of the Brazilian state. With notable originality, the text presents, theoretically and empirically, a truly consistent Marxist analysis of Brazilian foreign policy, as well as a rich interpretation of the class struggle in current Brazilian politics. The author offers the reader her reflections on the political crisis of 2016 and the foreign policy of the Dilma, Temer, and Bolsonaro governments.
Agrarian History of the Cuban Revolution
Dilemmas of Peripheral Socialism
AvJoana Salém Vasconcelos
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
2 770 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
In Agrarian History of the Cuban Revolution, the Brazilian historian Joana Salm Vasconcelos presents in clear language the complicated challenge of overcoming the condition of Latin Americas underdevelopment through a revolutionary process. Based on diverse historical sources, she demonstrates why the sugar plantation economic structure in Cuba was not entirely changed by the 1959 Revolution.The author narrates in detail the three dimensions of Cuban agrarian transformation during the decisive 1960s the land tenure system, the crop regime, and the labour regime , and its social and political actors. She explains the paths and detours of Cuban agrarian policies, contextualized in a labour-intensive economy that needs desperately to increase productivity and, at the same time, promised widely to emancipate workers from labour exploitation. Cuban agrarian and economic contradictions are well-synthetized with the concept of Peripheral Socialism.
Political Economy of Housing
The Case of Turkey
AvSila Demirors
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
2 754 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
In The Political Economy of Housing: The Case of Turkey, Sila Demirors explores the analytical and historical process of how housing, a special use-value and social relation, which is crucial for the social reproduction of labour-power, becomes an instrument of speculative finance to feed itself. While the second part of the book discusses the political economy of housing in Turkey, in which housing has been used by the state as both a political project and a macroeconomic tool for the last two decades, the first part of the book formulates a methodological and theoretical framework to provide a comprehensive approach for comparative housing research from a Marxist political economy perspective.
Transgressive City-Making and Governance
Housing Struggles, Occupations and Evictions in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area
AvSaila-Maria Saaristo
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
2 136 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Transgressive City-Making and Governance delves into the pressing global issue of housing exclusion and forced evictions, using Lisbon as a case study. This book, based on a 15-month engaged ethnography, critically examines council housing occupations and evictions, revealing how these practices challenge neoliberal urban governance and put forward alternative forms of urban citizenship. Exploring gendered, classed, and racialised dynamics, it sheds light on the transformative potential of housing occupations and the role of social movements in contesting systemic exclusion. It is essential reading for those interested in housing rights, social justice, and urban governance.
Motivations for Refusal
Work, Value, and the Limits of Postworkerism
AvMark Gawne
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
1 898 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
In Motivations for Refusal: Work, Value, and the Limits of Postworkerism, Mark Gawne develops a critical account of how the affective politics of capital and class are formed and contested in contemporary arrangements of work, and offers a comprehensive critique of the postworkerist school of autonomist Marxism. Drawing on value critique and class composition analysis, the book challenges core assumptions of postworkerism and related theories of affective labour, while retaining their core insights. Moving beyond the limits of postworkerism, Gawne analyses how the integration of the affective sciences into management and workplace technologies constitutes a terrain of contestation in conditions of immaterial production. Motivations for Refusal explores how affective politics emerge in the contestation between labour and capital in their affective modes.
In the Remains of Progress
Utopia and Suffering in Brazilian Popular Entrepreneurship
AvHenrique Costa
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
2 024 kr
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This book proposes an ethnographic approach to popular entrepreneurship based on the experience of the wageless life in Brazil. It starts from the historical premise that self-employment is at the heart of the popular way of life, whose main characteristic is the desire for autonomy. In turn, the global discourse of self-realisation carries a strong attempt at modernisation aimed at young people, but which is also capable of embarrassing older people. From the shopping streets, social entrepreneurship and Pentecostal cults, this process is giving shape to political conflicts that are redrawing the sense of community in São Paulo, the country's largest city.
Extractivism Across Production and Social Reproduction
Classes of Labour in Rural Turkey
AvCoşku Çelik
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
1 912 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
This book examines the political economy of natural resource extraction in the Global South across production and social reproduction. Building on a fieldwork which stretched over six years, the book argues that natural resource extraction in the agrarian South is a multi-dimensional development strategy, whose holistic analysis necessitates attention to (i) the significance of the natural resource in question for macro development plans and global value chains, (ii) the formation of the classes of extractive labour across production and social reproduction, (iii) gender division of labour within rural extractive households and rural labour markets, and (iv) labour process and control strategies in the spheres of production and social reproduction.
Capital’s Food Regime
Class Struggle, the State and Corporate Agriculture in India
AvJostein Jakobsen
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
1 940 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Capital’s Food Regime: Class Struggle, the State and Corporate Agriculture in India analyses how India is being integrated into the global food regime at the current conjuncture, and with what consequences for the country’s classes of labour. The book is an in-depth study of agrarian transformations in contemporary India through the lens of food regime analysis. While the food regime approach has emphasized global-scale studies, this book breaks new ground in downscaling the approach to account for specific historical-geographical cases. The book thus develops an innovative Marxist approach to food regime analysis that challenges prevailing scholarly accounts in agrarian studies and beyond.
“Red” Banks
The Contribution of Chinese Banks to the Economic Rise of China (1980-2020)
AvChenzhu Song
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
2 146 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Have you ever wondered how China’s banking sector powered the world’s most dramatic economic transformation? This book opens the vault, revealing how policy banks, state-owned giants, and daring joint-stock institutions fueled China’s rise from 1980 to 2020. You’ll explore unpublished financial records and financed reforms to Belt and Road mega-projects. How did China’s banks sidestep the pitfalls of Western systems? What made their approach to infrastructure and manufacturing uniquely explosive? This study bridges gaps in global finance research, challenging conventional narratives and exposing the symbiotic relationship between state strategy and real economic growth.
Colour of Inequality in South Africa and Brazil
Making Sense of Social Policy as Reparations
AvMadalitso Phiri
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
2 080 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
The Colour of Inequality in South Africa and Brazil offers a radical departure by pivoting quotidian encounters of the historically oppressed ‘black racialised underclass’ within South Africa’s and Brazil’s social policy architectures that have been shaped by transhistorical trajectories of hierarchical citizenships. Phiri provides two interventions to scholarship, one on ‘the epistemic question’ and the second on ‘the social question’, by offering a critique of a racialised neoliberal global political economy that permeates the two countries’ social policies. In this volume, Phiri answers the following questions. First, can social policy resolve the residuals and contradictions of transhistorical inequalities that have become systemic features of these aspirant democracies that aim to forge a new social contract under the epoch of a hierarchical racialised neoliberal capitalism? Second, cognisant that both South Africa’s and Brazil’s socio-political formations are enmeshed in histories of imperial violence, and a hierarchical racialised global political economy carved through the Trans-Atlantic slavery, what paradigmatic and theoretical tools can be deployed to think about social policy as reparations? Third, cognisant of South Africa’s and Brazil’s oppressed black majorities, which institutions will create conducive conditions for the flourishing and political aesthetics for those racialised as black? The author's contribution to this oeuvre is first to define ‘social policy as reparations’ through a process of ‘worldmaking’.
Land Rent, Capital, Rate of Profit
A Critique of David Harvey’s Theory of Urban Land Rent
AvIlia Farahani
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
2 158 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
This book provides a critique of David Harvey's theory of land rent and his replacement of Marx's concept of absolute rent with class-monopoly rent, arguing that this shift inadequately addresses crucial theoretical and empirical problems in urban economic geography today. The alternative introduced links land rent to fluctuations in profit rates rather than monopoly pricing. Land Rent, Capital, Rate of Profit seeks to resolve anomalies in Harvey's explanation by incorporating the concept of absolute rent and emphasizing long-term structural economic forces that determine its fluctuations. It draws on an alternative interpretation of Marx's economic theory advanced by Anwar Shaikh in his theory of real competition.
Nyhet
Corporate Capitalism in the Era of Financialization and Intangible Capital
Value Forms Beyond Fixity
AvTansel Güçlü
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
1 673 kr
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This book investigates the transformation of corporate capitalism under conditions of financialization and the rising centrality of intangible capital. It challenges conventional distinctions between financial and non-financial activity by tracing the historical reorganisation of corporate capital, its balance-sheet structures, and valuation tools. The book shows how the growing role of liquidity and intangibles has undermined long-standing valuation anchors, reshaping accumulation, valuation practices, and corporate power. By reinterpreting Marxian value theory from a critical political economy perspective, it reconnects debates on value with changes in accounting conventions, financial practices, and the evolving forms of corporate capital from the late nineteenth century to the present.

New Scholarship in Political Economy – serie

Visar alla böcker i serien New Scholarship in Political Economy. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.

24 produkter

Kategorier

24 produkter

Feeding Istanbul: The Political Economy of Urban Provisioning
AvCandan Turkkan
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
3 347 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
How was Istanbul, once the capital of the Ottoman Empire and now the financial heart of contemporary Turkey, provisioned in the early 19th century? Tracing how the sovereign’s duty to provision the city and protect his subjects from hunger was gradually transferred to the market and became a responsibility of the subjects (later, citizens) alone, Feeding Istanbul makes a compelling case for situating food politics, and politics of urban provisioning in particular, at the centre of the way we think about the relationship between the sovereign and the political community..
Turkey: The Pendulum between Military Rule and Civilian Authoritarianism
AvFatih Çağatay Cengiz
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
3 284 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Winner of the 2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title AwardIn Turkey: The Pendulum between Military Rule and Civilian Authoritarianism, Fatih Çağatay Cengiz explains Turkey’s trajectory of military and civilian authoritarianism while offering an alternative framework for understanding the Kemalist state and state-society relations. This book clearly captures the zeitgeist of the moment Turkey has passed/has been passing through: democratisation, authoritarianism, and the coup cycle. Moreover, the book not only focuses on Turkish domestic politics with regards to procedural democratisation and waves of authoritarianism under the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP), it also engages with Turkey’s recent foreign policy; policy that pushes Turkey to take an active role in the Syrian conflict through the concept of ‘Neo-Ottomanism’.
Forces of Production, Climate Change and Canadian Fossil Capitalism
AvNicolas Graham
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
3 050 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Listen to the podcast!In Forces of Production, Climate Change and Canadian Fossil Capitalism, Nicolas Graham reinterprets the concept of forces of production from an ecological standpoint and in the context of the deepening climate crisis. He argues that ecological knowledge itself, as well as associated developments in renewable energy technology and green infrastructure, represent advancements in productive forces. However, such “green productive forces” are fettered by capitalist relations of production, including the power of carbon capital.In addition to a conceptual and theoretical reinterpretation, case studies focusing on Canadian fossil capitalism provide a concrete-complex analysis of the deepening of fossil-fuelled productive forces and the process of fettering in both renewable energies and in the development and application of ecological knowledge.
Constructing Change: A Political Economy of Housing and Electricity Provision in Turkey
AvEzgi B. Ünsal
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
3 254 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
In Constructing Change, Ezgi B. Unsal provides a political economy of electricity and housing provision in Turkey. By using the case studies of electricity and housing in Turkey, the book explores how social provision is increasingly commodified across the globe as a defining feature of financialisation. Distinguishing this trend from macroeconomic definitions of financialisation, the book offers a contextual narrative of economic change in Turkey, with undetermined macroeconomic outcomes. It contributes to the literature on the financialisation of social provision and the political economy of Turkey, by confirming the increasing influence of finance on social provision sectors, making them prone to volatility while contributing to their growth at the same time.
From Online Platforms to Digital Monopolies
Technology, Information and Power
AvJonas C.L. Valente
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
3 905 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
In From Online Platforms to Digital Monopolies: Technology, Information and Power Jonas C.L. Valente discusses the rise of platforms as key players in different social activities, from economy to culture and politics. These companies have a daily presence in the lives of the majority of the world population, from social interactions to digital payments and transactions. They are gaining a central role in neoliberal capitalism, shaping contemporary sociability.The book shows how these platforms work and identifies the hidden interests behind the commercial strategies that guide the development of services offered to Internet users. It takes the specific cases of Google and Facebook and presents its historical development, illustrating how these companies turned into major players in our times.
Making of Modern Japan
Power, Crisis, and the Promise of Transformation
AvMyles Carroll
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
2 971 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
In The Making of Modern Japan, Myles Carroll offers a sweeping account of post-war Japanese political economy, exploring the transition from the post-war boom to the crisis of today and the connections between these seemingly discrete periods. Carroll explores the multifarious international and domestic political, economic, social and cultural conditions that fortified Japan’s post-war hegemonic order and enabled decades of prosperity and stability. Yet since the 1990s, a host of political, economic, social and cultural changes has left this same hegemonic order out of step with the realities of the contemporary world, a contradiction that has led to three decades of crisis in Japanese society. Can Japan make the bold changes required to reverse its decline?
Co-operative Struggles: Work Conflicts in Argentina’s New Worker Co-operatives
AvDenise Kasparian
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
2 923 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
In Co-operative Struggles, Denise Kasparian expands the theoretical horizons regarding labour unrest by proposing new categories to make visible and conceptualize conflicts in the new worker co-operativism of the twenty-first century.After the depletion of neoliberal reforms at the dawn of the twenty-first century in Argentina, co-operativism gained momentum, mainly due to the recuperation of enterprises by their workers and state promotion of co-operatives through social policies. These new co-operatives became actors not just in production but in social struggle. Their peculiarity lies in the fact that they shape a socio-productive form not structured on wage relations: workers are at the same time members of the organisations. Why, how and by what cleavages and groupings do these co-operative workers without bosses come into conflict?Co-operative Struggles received honourable mention in 2024 for the biennial Joyce Rothschild Book Prize, which recognizes significant contributions to the advancement of economic democracy.
Financialisation and Poverty Alleviation in Ghana
Myths and Realities
AvFrancis Boateng Frimpong
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
2 668 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
The neoliberal policy response to the crisis in Ghana did not succeed in reversing the economic decline in both the medium and long term. In fact, quite the opposite, rather than undoing the economic decline, Frimpong argues that the policy prescriptions further weakened the country’s ability to develop. This is because the policies intentionally and unintentionally encouraged factors that destabilised the possibility of the real productive assets to earn commensurate returns to facilitate the flow of capital to the real sectors to ensure the survival of industrial enterprises. Rising profit in the financial sector incentivised financial capitalist to divert capital into financial assets at the expense of productive investment, further decelerating the pace of real capital accumulation in the country.
Unravelling the Social Formation
Free Trade, the State and Business Associations in Turkey
AvAkif Avcı
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
2 145 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
In Unravelling the Social Formation: Free Trade, the State and Business Associations in Turkey, Akif Avci examines the role of business associations and the state in Turkey in analysing the dialectical relationship between global free trade and Turkish social formation since 2002. The manuscript constructs a three-levels analysis based on the social relations of production, forms of state and world order. It explores the class characteristics of the business associations, the role of the Turkish state in the process of integration into global capitalism, and at the same time, internalisation of the global class relations inside Turkish social formation. It offers a fresh evaluation of imperialism theories and the uneven and combined development (U&CD) approach from a neo-Gramscian perspective.
Privatization in Turkey
Power Bloc, Capital Accumulation and State
AvAhmet Zaifer
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
2 145 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
In Privatization in Turkey: Power Bloc, Capital Accumulation and State, Ahmet Zaifer offers a rare look on privatization in Turkey that involves all three historical periods of Turkish privatization process -1980s and 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s- and covers different forms of privatization from divestiture to public-private partnership. Benefiting from theoretically informed qualitative research spanning nearly a decade that has involved several interviews with key informant groups, extensive review of newspaper articles and detailed analysis of annual reports of businesses, Ahmet Zaifer convincingly proves that the acceleration of privatization in Turkey has not only provided advantages to so-called favourable capital groups and the government elites, but also consolidated the position of Capital in General at the expense of labouring-popular classes and the natural environment of the entire country.
Public Health Systems in the Age of Financialization
Lessons from the Center and the Periphery
AvAna Carolina Lot Canellas Cordilha
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
2 563 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
In Public Health Systems in the Age of Financialization, Ana Carolina Cordilha unpacks policy shifts that have transformed public health systems into vehicles for financial speculation and capital accumulation. While it is commonly thought that these systems are being cut back in the period of financialization, the author shows that current changes in public health financing go far beyond budget cuts and privatization measures. She examines how public health systems are adopting financial instruments and participating in financial accumulation strategies, with harmful impacts on transparency, democratic accountability, and health service provision. With an in-depth study of both the French and Brazilian systems, Cordilha explores the different ways in which this process unfolds in central and peripheral countries.
Shifting Ground of Globalization
Labor and Mineral Extraction at Vale S.A.
AvThiago Aguiar
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
2 719 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
The Shifting Ground of Globalization: Labor and Mineral Extraction at Vale S.A. describes the transformation of the formerly state-owned Brazilian mining company into a Transnational Corporation, global leader in iron ore and nickel extraction. Through ethnographic research in Brazil and Canada, in places as different as Carajás, in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, and Sudbury, in northern Ontario, Thiago Aguiar dialogues with the theories of global capitalism and takes the case of the largest Latin American company as a telling example of the integration of the Brazilian economy into capitalist globalization and its consequences for workers, communities, and the environment in the first decades of the twenty-first century – when many celebrated the BRICS as an alternative to neoliberal globalization.
Brazilian Bourgeoisie and Foreign Policy
AvTatiana Berringer
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
2 515 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
What were the changes in the international position of the Brazilian state during the Lula and Cardoso administrations? How were the classes and class fractions represented? These are the questions that Tatiana Berringer's work seeks to answer. Using the theoretical instruments of the Marxist Nicos Poulantzas, the book identifies the class interests that directed the international action of the Brazilian state. With notable originality, the text presents, theoretically and empirically, a truly consistent Marxist analysis of Brazilian foreign policy, as well as a rich interpretation of the class struggle in current Brazilian politics. The author offers the reader her reflections on the political crisis of 2016 and the foreign policy of the Dilma, Temer, and Bolsonaro governments.
Agrarian History of the Cuban Revolution
Dilemmas of Peripheral Socialism
AvJoana Salém Vasconcelos
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
2 770 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
In Agrarian History of the Cuban Revolution, the Brazilian historian Joana Salm Vasconcelos presents in clear language the complicated challenge of overcoming the condition of Latin Americas underdevelopment through a revolutionary process. Based on diverse historical sources, she demonstrates why the sugar plantation economic structure in Cuba was not entirely changed by the 1959 Revolution.The author narrates in detail the three dimensions of Cuban agrarian transformation during the decisive 1960s the land tenure system, the crop regime, and the labour regime , and its social and political actors. She explains the paths and detours of Cuban agrarian policies, contextualized in a labour-intensive economy that needs desperately to increase productivity and, at the same time, promised widely to emancipate workers from labour exploitation. Cuban agrarian and economic contradictions are well-synthetized with the concept of Peripheral Socialism.
Political Economy of Housing
The Case of Turkey
AvSila Demirors
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
2 754 kr
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In The Political Economy of Housing: The Case of Turkey, Sila Demirors explores the analytical and historical process of how housing, a special use-value and social relation, which is crucial for the social reproduction of labour-power, becomes an instrument of speculative finance to feed itself. While the second part of the book discusses the political economy of housing in Turkey, in which housing has been used by the state as both a political project and a macroeconomic tool for the last two decades, the first part of the book formulates a methodological and theoretical framework to provide a comprehensive approach for comparative housing research from a Marxist political economy perspective.
Transgressive City-Making and Governance
Housing Struggles, Occupations and Evictions in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area
AvSaila-Maria Saaristo
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
2 136 kr
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Transgressive City-Making and Governance delves into the pressing global issue of housing exclusion and forced evictions, using Lisbon as a case study. This book, based on a 15-month engaged ethnography, critically examines council housing occupations and evictions, revealing how these practices challenge neoliberal urban governance and put forward alternative forms of urban citizenship. Exploring gendered, classed, and racialised dynamics, it sheds light on the transformative potential of housing occupations and the role of social movements in contesting systemic exclusion. It is essential reading for those interested in housing rights, social justice, and urban governance.
Motivations for Refusal
Work, Value, and the Limits of Postworkerism
AvMark Gawne
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
1 898 kr
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In Motivations for Refusal: Work, Value, and the Limits of Postworkerism, Mark Gawne develops a critical account of how the affective politics of capital and class are formed and contested in contemporary arrangements of work, and offers a comprehensive critique of the postworkerist school of autonomist Marxism. Drawing on value critique and class composition analysis, the book challenges core assumptions of postworkerism and related theories of affective labour, while retaining their core insights. Moving beyond the limits of postworkerism, Gawne analyses how the integration of the affective sciences into management and workplace technologies constitutes a terrain of contestation in conditions of immaterial production. Motivations for Refusal explores how affective politics emerge in the contestation between labour and capital in their affective modes.
In the Remains of Progress
Utopia and Suffering in Brazilian Popular Entrepreneurship
AvHenrique Costa
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
2 024 kr
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This book proposes an ethnographic approach to popular entrepreneurship based on the experience of the wageless life in Brazil. It starts from the historical premise that self-employment is at the heart of the popular way of life, whose main characteristic is the desire for autonomy. In turn, the global discourse of self-realisation carries a strong attempt at modernisation aimed at young people, but which is also capable of embarrassing older people. From the shopping streets, social entrepreneurship and Pentecostal cults, this process is giving shape to political conflicts that are redrawing the sense of community in São Paulo, the country's largest city.
Extractivism Across Production and Social Reproduction
Classes of Labour in Rural Turkey
AvCoşku Çelik
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
1 912 kr
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This book examines the political economy of natural resource extraction in the Global South across production and social reproduction. Building on a fieldwork which stretched over six years, the book argues that natural resource extraction in the agrarian South is a multi-dimensional development strategy, whose holistic analysis necessitates attention to (i) the significance of the natural resource in question for macro development plans and global value chains, (ii) the formation of the classes of extractive labour across production and social reproduction, (iii) gender division of labour within rural extractive households and rural labour markets, and (iv) labour process and control strategies in the spheres of production and social reproduction.
Capital’s Food Regime
Class Struggle, the State and Corporate Agriculture in India
AvJostein Jakobsen
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
1 940 kr
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Capital’s Food Regime: Class Struggle, the State and Corporate Agriculture in India analyses how India is being integrated into the global food regime at the current conjuncture, and with what consequences for the country’s classes of labour. The book is an in-depth study of agrarian transformations in contemporary India through the lens of food regime analysis. While the food regime approach has emphasized global-scale studies, this book breaks new ground in downscaling the approach to account for specific historical-geographical cases. The book thus develops an innovative Marxist approach to food regime analysis that challenges prevailing scholarly accounts in agrarian studies and beyond.
“Red” Banks
The Contribution of Chinese Banks to the Economic Rise of China (1980-2020)
AvChenzhu Song
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
2 146 kr
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Have you ever wondered how China’s banking sector powered the world’s most dramatic economic transformation? This book opens the vault, revealing how policy banks, state-owned giants, and daring joint-stock institutions fueled China’s rise from 1980 to 2020. You’ll explore unpublished financial records and financed reforms to Belt and Road mega-projects. How did China’s banks sidestep the pitfalls of Western systems? What made their approach to infrastructure and manufacturing uniquely explosive? This study bridges gaps in global finance research, challenging conventional narratives and exposing the symbiotic relationship between state strategy and real economic growth.
Colour of Inequality in South Africa and Brazil
Making Sense of Social Policy as Reparations
AvMadalitso Phiri
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
2 080 kr
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The Colour of Inequality in South Africa and Brazil offers a radical departure by pivoting quotidian encounters of the historically oppressed ‘black racialised underclass’ within South Africa’s and Brazil’s social policy architectures that have been shaped by transhistorical trajectories of hierarchical citizenships. Phiri provides two interventions to scholarship, one on ‘the epistemic question’ and the second on ‘the social question’, by offering a critique of a racialised neoliberal global political economy that permeates the two countries’ social policies. In this volume, Phiri answers the following questions. First, can social policy resolve the residuals and contradictions of transhistorical inequalities that have become systemic features of these aspirant democracies that aim to forge a new social contract under the epoch of a hierarchical racialised neoliberal capitalism? Second, cognisant that both South Africa’s and Brazil’s socio-political formations are enmeshed in histories of imperial violence, and a hierarchical racialised global political economy carved through the Trans-Atlantic slavery, what paradigmatic and theoretical tools can be deployed to think about social policy as reparations? Third, cognisant of South Africa’s and Brazil’s oppressed black majorities, which institutions will create conducive conditions for the flourishing and political aesthetics for those racialised as black? The author's contribution to this oeuvre is first to define ‘social policy as reparations’ through a process of ‘worldmaking’.
Land Rent, Capital, Rate of Profit
A Critique of David Harvey’s Theory of Urban Land Rent
AvIlia Farahani
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
2 158 kr
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This book provides a critique of David Harvey's theory of land rent and his replacement of Marx's concept of absolute rent with class-monopoly rent, arguing that this shift inadequately addresses crucial theoretical and empirical problems in urban economic geography today. The alternative introduced links land rent to fluctuations in profit rates rather than monopoly pricing. Land Rent, Capital, Rate of Profit seeks to resolve anomalies in Harvey's explanation by incorporating the concept of absolute rent and emphasizing long-term structural economic forces that determine its fluctuations. It draws on an alternative interpretation of Marx's economic theory advanced by Anwar Shaikh in his theory of real competition.
Nyhet
Corporate Capitalism in the Era of Financialization and Intangible Capital
Value Forms Beyond Fixity
AvTansel Güçlü
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
1 673 kr
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This book investigates the transformation of corporate capitalism under conditions of financialization and the rising centrality of intangible capital. It challenges conventional distinctions between financial and non-financial activity by tracing the historical reorganisation of corporate capital, its balance-sheet structures, and valuation tools. The book shows how the growing role of liquidity and intangibles has undermined long-standing valuation anchors, reshaping accumulation, valuation practices, and corporate power. By reinterpreting Marxian value theory from a critical political economy perspective, it reconnects debates on value with changes in accounting conventions, financial practices, and the evolving forms of corporate capital from the late nineteenth century to the present.

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Turkey: The Pendulum between Military Rule and Civilian Authoritarianism

Forces of Production, Climate Change and Canadian Fossil Capitalism

Constructing Change: A Political Economy of Housing and Electricity Provision in Turkey

From Online Platforms to Digital Monopolies

Making of Modern Japan

Co-operative Struggles: Work Conflicts in Argentina’s New Worker Co-operatives

Financialisation and Poverty Alleviation in Ghana

Unravelling the Social Formation

Privatization in Turkey

Public Health Systems in the Age of Financialization

Shifting Ground of Globalization

Brazilian Bourgeoisie and Foreign Policy

Agrarian History of the Cuban Revolution

Political Economy of Housing

Transgressive City-Making and Governance

Motivations for Refusal

In the Remains of Progress

Extractivism Across Production and Social Reproduction

Capital’s Food Regime

“Red” Banks

Colour of Inequality in South Africa and Brazil

Land Rent, Capital, Rate of Profit

Corporate Capitalism in the Era of Financialization and Intangible Capital

New Scholarship in Political Economy – serie

Feeding Istanbul: The Political Economy of Urban Provisioning

Turkey: The Pendulum between Military Rule and Civilian Authoritarianism

Forces of Production, Climate Change and Canadian Fossil Capitalism

Constructing Change: A Political Economy of Housing and Electricity Provision in Turkey

From Online Platforms to Digital Monopolies

Making of Modern Japan

Co-operative Struggles: Work Conflicts in Argentina’s New Worker Co-operatives

Financialisation and Poverty Alleviation in Ghana

Unravelling the Social Formation

Privatization in Turkey

Public Health Systems in the Age of Financialization

Shifting Ground of Globalization

Brazilian Bourgeoisie and Foreign Policy

Agrarian History of the Cuban Revolution

Political Economy of Housing

Transgressive City-Making and Governance

Motivations for Refusal

In the Remains of Progress

Extractivism Across Production and Social Reproduction

Capital’s Food Regime

“Red” Banks

Colour of Inequality in South Africa and Brazil

Land Rent, Capital, Rate of Profit

Corporate Capitalism in the Era of Financialization and Intangible Capital