1st Edition
Affective Politics of the Global Event Trauma and the Resilient Market Subject
Preface: how does a global market come to life?
Introduction: Austerity, Affect, Event
1. Political Economy of the Global Event: Crisis and Performance
2. Everyday Politics of the Media Event: Discourse, Performance, Subject
Trauma and the Global Event
3. Trauma and Global Ethics: Affective Politics of the Event
4. Trauma and the Sub-Prime Crisis: Governing the Financial Event?
5. Trauma and the Market Subject: Performing Vulnerability
Resilience and the Global Event
6. Resilience and Neo-Liberalism: The Deus Ex Machina of the Future Event
7. Resilience and (Everyday) Finance: Performing Adaptability Differently
8. Resilience and the Market Subject: Affective Economies of Life
Conclusion
Biography
Dr James Brassett is Reader in International Political Economy (IPE) and Director of the MA IPE for PAIS. He was previously RCUK Research Fellow in the ESRC Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR). Brassett works on the politics of globalisation with a focus on questions of ethics, governance, crisis, and resistance. His first book is entitled Cosmopolitanism and Global Financial Reform: A Pragmatic Approach to the Tobin Tax (Routledge, 2010; Paperback, 2013) and he is Editor of seven Journal Special Issues on subjects including 'Ethics and World Politics', 'The Political Economy of the Sub-Prime Crisis', 'The Politics of Legitimate Global Governance', and 'Security and the Politics of Resilience'. Brassett has authored or co-authored some fifty articles and book chapters.
