Shortlisted for the Inaugural International Political Economy Group
annual book prize
'...amongst the most important books yet written on
globalization'
- Review of International Political Economy
"In this original and very accessible work Cameron and Palan
make a major contribution to the narrative turn in political
economy. Skillfully combining sustained theoretical critiques and
contemporary empirical analyses, this politically engaged book
promotes a paradigm shift that sheds new light on the changing
relations among the economy, the political, and the social. It will
quickly become a major reference point for its account of
globalization as a persuasive story and a flawed reality. I
recommend it unreservedly"
Bob Jessop
How do theories, discussions and debates about globalisation
shape the very subject they reflect on? How are conceptions of the
state, society and politics are changing in the age of
globalisation?
This book critically introduces the main contemporary debates on
globalization and demonstrates how conventional versions or
narratives of globalization have served to shape policy responses
at both state and corporate levels.
Rather than accepting the disintegration of the state thesis,
the authors present an alternative transition from the nation-state
as a homogenous imagined community', to a more complex and fluid
series of normative economic spaces or imagined economies'. They
illustrate how this respatialization of the contemporary state is
rapidly taking shape in concrete institutions, processes, people
and places serving to recast the boundaries of the social,
political and economic in fundamental ways.
By accessibly demonstrating the way in which the discourse of
globalization has itself become an integral part of the politics of
globalization, The Imagined Economies of Globalization serves as an
ideal introduction to key contemporary debates in politics,
international relations, geography, international political economy
and sociology.
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