Cultural Political Economy

Cultural Political Economy

W.H. Sewell argued, in “The Concept(s) of Culture” (in V. Bonnell, and L. Hunt (eds.) Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture), “the system has no existence apart from the succession of practices that instantiate, reproduce, or – most interestingly – transform it. Hence system implies practice […] the important theoretical question is thus not whether culture should be conceptualized as practice or as a system of symbols and meanings, but how to conceptualize the articulation of system and practice.” (1999)

T. Mitchell, in “Fixing the Economy. Cultural Studies”, (1998) states:

“In reference to countries outside the West, “to develop” ceased to be just a transitive verb (referring to the exploitation of a particular territory or resource) and began to refer to an intransitive political and economic process: development. The prewar concern with colonial welfare was transformed into the postwar ideology of developing what was now called the underdeveloped world.”

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See Also

political economy, economic (dis)embedding, culturalization, economization, neoliberalism, global development, economic systems

Further Reading

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