Los mercaderes: La trampa

Duncan, Bernice G.; Matute, Ana María

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“…It is described as an ‘independent commercial business’ (The Crown Estate, 2016b) separate from monarchy but run on its behalf. However, much of its portfolio was ‘stolen from the Church at the time of the Reformation’ or conquered by historical monarchs (Duncan, 1970, p. 194). In 2019, The Guardian (Murphy, 2019) revealed that over five years 113 Crown Estate tenants were evicted so the homes could be sold for profit, and over 100 complaints from tenants (about leaks, faulty electrics, etc.)…”

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The corporate power of the British monarchy: Capital(ism), wealth and power in contemporary Britain

Clancy

2020

The Sociological Review

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This article offers a critical analysis of the British monarchy within wider political economies of wealth and power. While sociology has renewed its interest in ‘the elites’, the British monarchy is often positioned as an archaic institution, an anachronism in relation to corporate forms of wealth and power, and therefore irrelevant. This article counters this framing by revealing the mechanics, technologies and actors ‘behind the scenes’, in order to expose and demystify the relationship between the symbolic and political-economic functions of the monarchy. To do this, I (re)conceptualise the monarchy as a corporation, ‘The Firm’, oriented towards, and historically entrenched in, processes of capital accumulation, profit extraction and other forms of exploitation. The article maps out The Firm’s labour relations, financial arrangements, inter/national relationships and networks, and the legal status of The Crown and its components in order to demonstrate how ‘old’ and ‘new’ forms of wealth intersect and converge in contemporary Britain. This article is intended as a provocation to sociological studies of elites to suggest that, in overlooking monarchy, we are overlooking a key component of contemporary capitalism, and a key component in the reproduction of inequalities today.

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Section: The Economics Of the Firmmentioning

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The corporate power of the British monarchy: Capital(ism), wealth and power in contemporary Britain

Clancy

2020

The Sociological Review

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Los mercaderes: La trampa

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The corporate power of the British monarchy: Capital(ism), wealth and power in contemporary Britain

The corporate power of the British monarchy: Capital(ism), wealth and power in contemporary Britain

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