Pre-disciplinary and Post-disciplinary Perspectives

Jessop, Bob; Sum, Ngai‐Ling

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“…1 This combines concepts and tools from critical semiotic analysis with others from critical political economy to produce a distinctive post-disciplinary approach to the analysis of capitalist social formations (cf. Jessop and Sum 2001). While it is not demonstrated here, CPE can also be applied to noncapitalist economic and political orders by combining a critical analysis of the production of intersubjective meaning (i.e., semiosis) with concepts suited to such orders and their institutional dynamics.…”

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Cultural political economy: On making the cultural turn without falling into soft economic sociology

Jessop

Oosterlynck²

2008

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This article explores the implications of making the cultural turn in the engagement of economic and political geography with issues of political economy. It seeks to steer a path between a fetishistic, reified economics that naturalizes economic categories and a soft economic sociology that focuses on the similarities between economic and other socio-cultural activities at the expense of the specificity of the economic. We show how combining critical semiotic analysis with an evolutionary and institutional approach to political economy offers one interesting way to achieve this goal. An evolutionary and institutional approach to semiosis enables us to recognize the semiotic dimensions of political economy at the same time as establishing how and why only some economic imaginaries among the many that circulate actually come to be selected and institutionalized; and Marxian political economy enables us to identify the contradictions and conflicts that make capital accumulation inherently improbable and crisis-prone, creating the space for economic imaginaries to play a role in stabilizing accumulation in specific spatiotemporal fixes and/or pointing the way forward from recurrent crises. The paper illustrates these arguments with a case study on the Flemish 'anchoring debate' as a specific regional economic development strategy. It concludes with a set of guidelines for the further development of cultural political economy.Key words: Semiosis; critical discourse analysis; hegemony; cultural political economy; Belgium; accumulation strategy; state project; nationalism; regionalization; Bob Jessop is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for AdvancedStudies at Lancaster University.Stijn Oosterlynck is a post-doctoral research associate in the School of Geography, Manchester University. 2 Cultural Political Economy: on Making the Cultural Turn without Falling into Soft Economic SociologyThis contribution aims to redirect the cultural turn(s) in economic and political geography by making and illustrating the case for a distinctive approach to 'cultural political economy' (hereafter CPE refers to this approach and not to the wider set of cultural turns in political economy). 1This combines concepts and tools from critical semiotic analysis with others from critical political economy to produce a distinctive post-disciplinary approach to the analysis of capitalist social formations (cf. Jessop and Sum 2001). While it is not demonstrated here, CPE can also be applied to noncapitalist economic and political orders by combining a critical analysis of the production of intersubjective meaning (i.e., semiosis) with concepts suited to such orders and their institutional dynamics. One of the key differences between CPE and other approaches that make a cultural turn is its explicit integration of the general evolutionary mechanisms of variation, selection, and retention into semiotic analysis and, in particular, its concern with the path-dependent co-evolution of the semiotic and extra-semiotic aspec...

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Section: Soft Economic Sociologymentioning

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“…• commit themselves to trans-disciplinary interaction or, better, sui generis post-disciplinary research rather than mechanically additive 'multidisciplinary' team work (on different forms of disciplinarity, see Jessop and Sum 2001), and…”

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Cultural political economy: On making the cultural turn without falling into soft economic sociology

Jessop

Oosterlynck²

2008

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“…Cultural political economy emphasizes the interplay of economic and cultural 'imaginaries', that is, narrative elements that provide senses of coherence and identity. The 'imaginary' is not to be understood as opposed to or distinct from reality; it structures a landscape in which individual goals are situated and political projects can be pursued (JESSOP and SUM, 2001 …”

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New Localities

Jones¹,

Woods²

2012

Regional Studies

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JONES M. and WOODS M. New localities, Regional Studies. During the mid-to-late 1980s, 'locality' was the spatial metaphor to describe and explain the shifting world of regional studies. The paper argues that the resulting 'localities debate' threw this baby out with the bathwater and rather than invent new concepts to capture socio-spatial relations in the twenty-first century, the paper urges a 'return to locality' to enlighten regional studies. The paper offers three new readings of locality, which when taken together constitute the basis for thinking about regions, society and space through the lens of 'new localities'. It further suggests that for locality to have analytical value it must also have both an imagined and a material coherence, and it puts a 'new locality' framework to work in research on devolved regional economic and social geographies. New localitiesLocality Region Relationality Devolution WalesDe nouvelles localités, Regional Studies. Du milieu à la fin des années 1980, la notion de 'localité' constituait la métaphore pour décrire et expliquer l'évolution des études régionales. L'article affirme que 'le débat sur la notion de localité', qui en a résulté, a jeté ce bébé avec l'eau de bain et, plutôt que d'inventer de nouveaux concepts afin de capter les relations socio-géographiques du vingt-et-unième siècle, l'article prône en faveur d'un 'retour à la notion de localité' pour améliorer les études régionales. Cet article fournit trois nouvelles appréciations de la notion de 'localité' lesquelles, prises ensemble, constituent le bien-fondé des opinions sur les régions, la société et l'espace dans l'optique des 'nouvelles localités'. De plus, on propose que la notion de localité doit avoir une cohérence à la fois imaginaire et réelle pour justifier une valeur analytique, et on met en branle un cadre de 'nouvelle localité' dans la recherche au sujet des géographies économiques et sociales régionales dévolues. De mediados a finales de los ochenta, la 'localidad' era la metáfora espacial preferida para describir y explicar el mundo cambiante de los estudios regionales. En este artículo sostenemos que el 'debate de localidades' resultante acabó tirando el grano con la paja; en vez de inventar nuevos conceptos para captar las relaciones socioespaciales en el siglo XXI, aquí instamos a 'volver a la localidad' para esclarecer los estudios regionales. En este artículo ofrecemos tres nuevas lecturas de localidad que juntas constituyen la base para reflexionar sobre las regiones, la sociedad y el espacio a través del objetivo de las 'nuevas localidades'. Además sugerimos que para que el concepto de localidad ofrezca un valor analítico, también

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“…Recently, Bob Jessop (2004), building on earlier work (Jessop and Sum, 2001) has further elaborated this point in arguing for a Marxist-inflected cultural political economy by exploring the constitutive role of semiosis -the inter-subjective production of meaning -in economic and political activities and institutions and the social order more generally. He argues that cultural political economy is a "post-disciplinary" approach that adopts the "cultural turn" in economic and political inquiry without neglecting the articulation of semiosis with the interconnected materialities of economics and politics within wider social formations.…”

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On What's Right and Keeping Left: Or Why Geography Still Needs Marxian Political Economy

Hudson

2006

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Pre-disciplinary and Post-disciplinary Perspectives

Cited by 146 publications

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Cultural political economy: On making the cultural turn without falling into soft economic sociology

Cultural political economy: On making the cultural turn without falling into soft economic sociology

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