Transnational State

Sprague, Jeb

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“…The recent reorganisation of political power and restructuring of global capitalism have transformed the spatial organisation of the state (Demirović :51; Robinson :164; Wissen :234). The “theory of a transnational state” (Sprague ) claims that the territorial character of accumulation strategies, class relations and the state apparatuses are increasingly transnational (Demirović ; Robinson ). The national state, like the TNS, is not a homogenous and unitary actor.…”

Section: Towards a Political Ecology Of Conflictive And Transnationalmentioning

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The Transnationalisation of Competing State Projects: Carbon Offsetting and Development in Sumatra's Coastal Peat Swamps

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Indonesia's peatlands can be considered as conflict arenas where different state projects and actors compete. The case presented here stands for a new conservation controversy. The Berbak Carbon Initiatives overlap with a settlement project, inducing struggles among different state apparatuses, transnational actors, and peasants. This article is based on a novel conceptual approach building on political ecology, politics of scale and state theory for investigating divergent and transnationalised state projects. Empirically we draw on qualitative research conducted in the province of Jambi, Sumatra. We argue that the territorial conflicts mirror the contradictory interests of different state apparatuses influenced by conservation‐oriented and development‐oriented actors in society but also by supra‐national planning institutions. In our case, the contestation becomes visible through inconsistent notions of development and property. We show how political change challenges the implementation of a forest carbon project, illustrating the high risks of mitigating climate change through offsetting.

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Section: Towards a Political Ecology Of Conflictive And Transnationalmentioning

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The Transnationalisation of Competing State Projects: Carbon Offsetting and Development in Sumatra's Coastal Peat Swamps

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“…Robinson in his theorizing of a nascent TNS and transnational state apparatuses never claims that the national state ''has weakened,'' or that power has been transferred. Rather, he explains that his notion provides a useful analytical abstraction for considering how the functionality of many state institutions worldwide is transforming in relation to the practices and ideologies of elites operating in and through state institutions, from ''within'' and from ''without'' (tied increasingly to circuits of global, rather than national capital accumulation) (Robinson, 2010;Sprague, 2012ain Ritzer, 2012.…”

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Empire, Global Capitalism, and Theory: Reconsidering Hardt and Negri

Sprague¹

2011

Current Perspectives in Social Theory

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It has been over a decade since the publication of Michael Hardt and Antoni Negri's widely read Empire, a book that claimed humanity had entered a qualitatively new era in the organization of power. How do critical sociological studies that also theorize global capitalism depart from or share affinities with Hardt and Negri's Foucauldian-inspired notion of empire? The two most important shared insights is the notion of a new epoch in the history of world capitalism and the conceptualization of a global system that moves beyond the idea of U.S. imperialism solely as behind its fundamental structure. However, overpowering Hardt and Negri's framework are some fundamental problems: the vague and nondialectical idea of multitude, the lack of the role of the state, their confusing and contradictory idea of constitutionalism, and a misapprehension of immaterial labor. At the turn of the twenty-first century, a decade after the collapse of the Soviet Union and just prior to the events of September 11, 2001, globalization was omnipresent, a seemingly uncontestable reality. At this time, philosophers Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri suggested that we

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“…Reflected in the policies they have promoted, local state officials and elites in the Caribbean actively encourage transnational capitalist investment, due in part to their social reproduction now depending upon this type of capital accumulation (Robinson 2012;Sprague 2012a;Sprague-Silgado, 2017). At the same time, officials and managerial strata operating through more powerful state apparatuses, most importantly the United States, with the spectacular resources at its disposal, are vital for facilitating networks of global capitalist accumulation (Robinson, 2014).…”

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The Caribbean Cruise Ship Business and the Emergence of a Transnational Capitalist Class

Sprague-Silgado¹

2017

JWSR

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This paper will provide an overview of the fundamental changes that the cruise ship business has undergone with the emergence of capitalist globalization and in the context of the Caribbean region. Rising profits and investments in tourism during the later decades of the 20th century and into the 21st century have been an important part of the globalizing economy. This has been a consequence of both the major technological andThe cruise ship business is not motivated by the national economic development of any single country. Rather, it is capitalism's anti-social character at any level-local, national, regional, international, and, most importantly in recent decades, the transnational, that propels this business. Yet, when we add up the ecological impact of mass cruise ship tourism, the costs to humanity become increasingly unbearable. This analysis of the expansion of capitalism in the Caribbean via leisure travel reinforces the point that capital accumulation is substantively a contradictory and unsustainable global process in which those exercising state power play a very important role. State policymakers from a variety of states (most importantly, from the U.S.) have become complicit in the reworking of capital-labor relations to benefit the TCC. It shows us that sovereignty, states, and power are not so tightly tethered to a self-interested territorial logic, but, rather, exhibit what John Agnew (2009) Traditionally, scholars have looked at different nation-state-based elites as dominating the resorts and cruise ship destinations. Dotting the Caribbean's new array of privatized beaches, these businesses are under the control of a coalition of foreign, expatriate, and local elites (Klein 2005(Klein , 2009). In fact, it is clear that the world-system that came about through earlier phases of capitalism has played a key role in shaping many terms and conditions of today's transnational class relations form (Watson 2015).World-systems scholars have looked at the cruise ship business and tourism industry in the developing world as based on the flow of resources from "periphery" nations to wealthy "core" nations (Boyce 2003;Weaver 2001). Through this perspective, we would then see the U.S. state as facilitating the profiteering activities of U.S. national capitalists (with a fraction being internationally oriented) (Sprague, 2014a). This is in fact also a perspective underlying nationalist sentiments that many scholars and activists have embraced, including within the Caribbean: that poorer nations and their business communities must then compete with influential foreign national power blocs. Yet as capitalist accumulation has undergone fundamental changes over recent decades, we need to recalibrate how we understand political economy in the global era. Developmental models and relations tied to the inter-state system continue to erode, as many state leaders and local elites promote transnational capitalist interests and global competitiveness-even if this does include national rhetoric (and some poli...

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Transnational State

Cited by 6 publications

References 14 publications

The Transnationalisation of Competing State Projects: Carbon Offsetting and Development in Sumatra's Coastal Peat Swamps

The Transnationalisation of Competing State Projects: Carbon Offsetting and Development in Sumatra's Coastal Peat Swamps

Empire, Global Capitalism, and Theory: Reconsidering Hardt and Negri

The Caribbean Cruise Ship Business and the Emergence of a Transnational Capitalist Class

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