Is IPE just 'boring',1 or committed to problematic meta-theoretic|al assumptions? A critical engagement with the politics of method

Weber, Heloise

doi:10.1590/s0102-85292015000300005

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“…Weber has shown across a range of interventions how dominant conceptions of 'development' are premised upon methodological choices that systematically restrict both often-consequential policy decisions by international organizations and national states and research by development scholars themselves (Weber, 2004(Weber, , 2017. Weber critiques many such examples, but for the purposes of this article, I focus on the interrogation of what is termed the formal comparative method (see especially Weber, 2007; see also Weber, 2015).…”

Section: Critical-geographical Interventions and The Analytics Of Comparisonmentioning

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The politics of comparing capitalisms

Bruff¹

2021

Environ Plan A

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Research engaged in the comparison and analysis of different forms of capitalism has been a significant growth area of political economy scholarship in the 21st century. Yet this scholarship, referred to in the article as the Comparative Capitalisms literatures, has struggled to respond to the challenges posed by post-2007 developments in and across the global political economy. This article engages with the critique offered by a number of critical-geographical interventions: the variegated impacts and experiences of conditions of crisis highlight the fact that questions of variety and unevenness necessitate a considerably more holistic methodological approach to comparison than a singular ‘national state as container’ focus would allow for. While important, these ‘variegated capitalism’ interventions have not said enough about comparison as an intrinsically political research practice. Building on the work of especially Juliet Hooker, Reecia Orzeck and Heloise Weber, the article makes the case for (i) being explicit about what is analytically and politically at stake in the act of comparing, and (ii) putting analytical and political concerns on an equal footing. It further argues that a broadly conceived critical political economy approach, discussed in the final section, is best-placed to make the most of the potential of such an understanding of comparison. This makes it possible to deploy research strategies that juxtapose different constellations of crises, conflicts and contradictions in order to articulate critiques of capitalism and/or focus on social and political struggles taking place in, against and potentially beyond the ‘cases’ being considered.

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The politics of comparing capitalisms

Bruff¹

2021

Environ Plan A

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“…To be sure, many interventions have indicated ways in which IPE could be more pluralistic than it currently is (e.g. see Cohen, 2017;Leander, 2015;Manokha & Chalabi, 2012;Montgomerie, 2017;Waylen, 2006;Wullweber, 2019;Weber 2015).…”

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Progress, pluralism and science: moving from alienated to engaged pluralism

Young

2020

Review of International Political Economy

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The encompassing scale and scope of International Political Economy (IPE) is rare in the social sciences. Our subject matter affects the way our field organizes and produces knowledge: we study complex overlapping systems where the challenges of adequate description and causal explanation are especially difficult, and as such IPE scholarship borrows from a vast range of social theory and methods. While holding enormous productive potential, this space for pluralism, as currently practiced, risks culminating in the fragmentation of knowledge: what I call 'alienated pluralism'. A different, 'engaged pluralism' as I propose would retain the diversity of IPE's many approaches and traditions, but would promise greater knowledge synthesis. I argue that stronger adherence to a scientific ethos can assist in building this 'engaged pluralism'.

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“…El origen de la EPI como campo de investigación suele datarse para 1970 en su componente "atlantista", aunque reconoce antecedentes mucho más tempranos si se toman en cuenta perspectivas "del sur", como la teoría de la dependencia. (Cohen, 2008;Weber, 2015). La locación geográfica de cada núcleo de producción académica ha derivado en un conjunto particular de preguntas y conceptos ordenadores.…”

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Lo que importa es la pregunta. Aportes de la Economía Política Internacional en Latinoamérica para el debate en el contexto de crisis de la globalización

Zelicovich

2018

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Resumen: En el artículo se analizan las características del desarrollo reciente de la Economía Política Internacional en la región latinoamericana. Se busca resaltar la contribución de la Economía Política Internacional a las Relaciones Internacionales, para cuestionar los procesos de transformación en curso, definidos como crisis de globalización. Para ello se recopilan las preguntas de investigación de una serie de trabajos de reciente publicación, a través de las cuales puede apreciarse la capacidad crítica de este campo de estudio. Abstract:The article analyzes the characteristics of the recent development of the International Political Economy in the Latin American region. It seeks to highlight the contribution made by International Political Economy to International Relations, to question the ongoing processes of transformation, which are defined as a crisis of globalization. To this end, several research questions from a series of recently published works are collected, through which the critical capacity of this field of study can be appreciated.

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Is IPE just 'boring',1 or committed to problematic meta-theoretic|al assumptions? A critical engagement with the politics of method

Abstract: Is IPE just 'boring', or committed to problematic meta-theoretical assumptions?...

Cited by 13 publications

References 24 publications

The politics of comparing capitalisms

The politics of comparing capitalisms

Progress, pluralism and science: moving from alienated to engaged pluralism

Lo que importa es la pregunta. Aportes de la Economía Política Internacional en Latinoamérica para el debate en el contexto de crisis de la globalización

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