The Reconfiguration of the Global State–Capital Nexus

Apeldoorn, Bastiaan van; Graaff, Naná de; Overbeek, Henk

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“…This discussion enables us, following van Apeldoorn et al (, p. 474), to distil out the key internal relations between capital and state which the state‐capital nexus deploys to secure economic growth and political stability, and which frame the form and function of food regimes. These are: Market creation: to engender, if necessary, re‐establish, and ensure the effective functioning of markets, including the preconditions for capital accumulation like ‘primitive accumulation’; Market correction: to mitigate the destructive social impacts of capital accumulation and, more generally, to manage the capital‐labour relation, and to reproduce the subordination of the labour force to capital (legitimation function); Market direction: to direct and supervise capital accumulation when private capital fails, or is unable, to do so, commonly referred to as ‘state intervention in the economy’ (accumulation function); External representation: to represent the external interests of ‘domestic’ capital, extending from economic diplomacy to the forceful, or military, protection of business interests (accumulation and legitimation function, the latter elevating the ‘national interest’ above class and class fractional interest in the service of nationalism and generating ‘combined and uneven development’ as a consequence). …”

Section: Proposing a Revised Causal Basis For Food Regimesmentioning

confidence: 92%

“…Here, however, they reference only his discussion of capital accumulation (theorised as a ‘Regime of Accumulation’ from which we assume the term ‘food regime ’ derives) and do not, surprisingly, address the ‘Mode of Regulation’, a category of equal significance . Shorn of the ‘Mode of Regulation’, it is difficult to comprehend capitalism as a class‐defined and contradiction‐ridden mode of exploitation that exists in an ‘internal’ relation to the modern state, the latter performing vital support and legitimacy functions for capital without which it would be in jeopardy (van Apeldoorn et al ).…”

Section: Problems With Friedmann and Mcmichael’s Theorisation And Pementioning

confidence: 99%

“…We suggest, by contrast, that the modern state is better conceptualised itself as a social relation. That is, an arena or container (the state‐capital nexus) (Taylor ; van Apeldoorn et al ), within which class contestation and compromise is played out, principally to secure the material and ideological reproduction of the hegemonic fractions of capital, even where these may be transnational in orientation.…”

Section: Problems With Friedmann and Mcmichael’s Theorisation And Pementioning

confidence: 99%

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Food Regimes, Capital, State, and Class: Friedmann and McMichael Revisited

Tilzey

2019

Sociologia Ruralis

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Friedmann and McMichael's work, through their concept of the 'food regime', has been foundational to our thinking about the relation between capitalism, the state, and agriculture. Given the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of their seminal 1989 paper in this journal (Agriculture and the State System: The Rise and Decline of National Agricultures, 1870 to the Present) it seems very appropriate to commemorate this event by undertaking a reassessment of that paper. This article undertakes such a reassessment by examining and critiquing: the theoretical assumptions underlying the paper, particularly in relation to capitalism, class, and the state. This directs attention particularly to: the authors' (implicit) definition of capitalism; the relation between capitalism and the modern state; their treatment of 'class' and 'class struggle'; and their periodisation of food regimes and the dynamics underlying them, these being premised on their theoretical assumptions. The second, third, and, fourth sections occupy the bulk of the paper. The second section develops a significantly revised theoretical foundation for thinking about the dynamics underlying food regimes, while the third section deploys this as the basis for a new periodisation of food regimes. This periodisation includes a proposed Fifth, or 'Post-Neoliberal' Food Regime, and the final section examines this in detail.determinism and linearity of 'structural Marxism' (the 'second school', see below), an impulse, as implied above, that has only increased, if not always been realised, since 1989 (see Campbell and Dixon 2009). Indeed, these authors suggest that 'it is only possible… to understand the significance of these new perspectives by understanding food regimes as a key historical and theoretical pivot that moved debates in rural sociology from a rather narrow, structural and orthodox political economy of agriculture to a more contingent, historically contextual understanding of the many configurations… of agri-food capitalisms' (Campbell and Dixon 2009, p. 261).We argue, however, and as implied above, that, in the case of McMichael, theoretical provision for such 'contingency' has not been realised other than 'outside' the regime (see Tilzey 2017), while, in the case of Friedmann, her theoretical shift to engage 'contingency' has been undertaken through her partial embrace of post-structural and post-modern frames. These do not, we suggest, afford a rigorous basis for conceptualising 'contingency', however. We argue that this unresolved tension between 'structure' and 'contingency' in FRT, as presented by Friedmann and McMichael, arises through a missed opportunity to embrace RT in its entirety, together with their apparent lack of awareness of other important and related developments in 'post-structuralist' (but not 'post-structural') Marxian theorynotably, 'Political Marxism', Poulantzian state-capital theory, and neo-Gramscian theory. Indeed, it may be argued that this unresolved tension and their omission to present a theoretical basis for con...

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Section: Proposing a Revised Causal Basis For Food Regimesmentioning

confidence: 92%

Section: Problems With Friedmann and Mcmichael’s Theorisation And Pementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Problems With Friedmann and Mcmichael’s Theorisation And Pementioning

confidence: 99%

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Food Regimes, Capital, State, and Class: Friedmann and McMichael Revisited

Tilzey

2019

Sociologia Ruralis

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“…Retroliberalism then recreates elements of both classical liberalism and neoliberalism with the intention of perpetuating cycles of private capital accumulation. Furthermore, under the retroliberal regime, the pursuit of self‐interest is enacted by a state–corporate nexus, that exports the stimulus packages under the guise of “shared prosperity” (Apeldoorn, de Graaff, & Overbeek, ).…”

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Exporting stimulus and “shared prosperity”: Reinventing foreign aid for a retroliberal era

Mawdsley

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Overton

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Development Policy Review

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The global aid world has changed, partly in response to the reconfigurations of geopolitical power and to the global financial crisis (GFC). Paradoxically, in the face of recession in most northern economies, collectively foreign aid contributions have not fallen. However there has been a qualitative shift in its narrative and nature. This new regime—which we term retroliberalism—projects the concept of “shared prosperity,” but constitutes a return to explicit self‐interest designed to bolster private sector trade and investment. Drawing evidence from New Zealand and the United Kingdom, we argue that aid programmes are increasingly functioning as “exported stimulus” packages.

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“…Neoliberalism has lost its status as a hegemonic ideology as various crises have undermined the credibility of radical free-market economics. Whether or not one agrees with the assessment of an underlying crisis of overaccumulation, identified acute crises have included the financial crisis of 2008, a parallel food crisis, worsening ecological crises and, importantly for the purposes of this paper, a crisis of care and depletion linked to the globalization of reproduction (Bastiaan van Apeldoorn, Naná de Graaff, and Henk Overbeek 2012;Eric Helleiner 2014;Shirin Rai, Catherine Hoskyns, and Dania Thomas 2014).…”

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Neoliberalism with a Feminist Face: Crafting a new Hegemony at the World Bank

Prügl¹

2016

Feminist Economics

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Neoliberalism has been discredited as a result of proliferating crises (financial, ecological, care) and mounting inequality. This paper examines the exploding research on gender at the World Bank as a site for the construction of a new hegemonic consensus around neoliberalism. Drawing on a computerassisted inductive analysis of 34 Bank publications on gender since 2001 the paper (a) documents Bank efforts to establish a positive relationship between gender equality and growth, (b) shows the way in which the Bank's definition of equality as equal opportunity has expanded, (c) illustrates how the focus on institutions has enabled an engagement with core feminist concerns, such as equality in the family, and (d) traces how incorporating notions of women's empowerment and agency has made possible a focus on domestic violence. The paper concludes by emphasizing the ambiguous effects of the Bank's new neoliberalism, which continues to use the market as the arbiter of social values while providing openings for feminist agendas.

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The Reconfiguration of the Global State–Capital Nexus

Cited by 11 publications

References 7 publications

Food Regimes, Capital, State, and Class: Friedmann and McMichael Revisited

Food Regimes, Capital, State, and Class: Friedmann and McMichael Revisited

Exporting stimulus and “shared prosperity”: Reinventing foreign aid for a retroliberal era

Neoliberalism with a Feminist Face: Crafting a new Hegemony at the World Bank

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