Popular Culture and Political Economic Thought
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-3396-5 (ISBN)
We live in an era of economic fabling where often fantastic representations of economic life in popular culture sit uncomfortably alongside a neoliberal capitalist fairy tale that the Earth's resources can continue to be exploited into an indefinite future. This book examines a variety of animated movies, TV shows, written fictions, adventure travelogues, Paleo archeologies (and diets) to suggest that popular culture poses a multiform challenge to the failing theories and practices of neoclassical economics. Popular Culture and Political Economic Thought: Fables of Commonwealth contends that it does so most successfully by implementing older formations of political economic thought: stages theory, bioeconomics, and a robust discourse on commonwealth. An era of eco-crisis demands a new economics. It therefore also requires a new appraisal of the popular imaginary and its potential for leveraging alternative conceptions of economic and political relations. This book begins that conversation.
Thomas Strychacz is Frederick A. Rice Professor of English at Mills College at Northeastern University.
Chapter 1: The Political Economy of Potato Farming on Mars in Andy Weir’s The Martian
Chapter 2: Virtual Commonwealths of the Great Recession: The Obamas’ Garden and Farm Management Games
Chapter 3: Life in the Wilds: Plots of Polity in Harriet Martineau and Survivor
Chapter 4: Challenging the Privilege of Again: Recursive Plots of Polity in Octavia Butler’s Dawn and Nalo Hopkinson’s MidnightRobber
Chapter 5: “Should’ve kept better care of her”: The Political Economy of Joss Whedon’s Firefly
Chapter 6: Feast Fables: The Bioeconomics of Turkeys and Roast Beast
Chapter 7: Yak Burgers and Black Tea: Consumption, Deprivation, and the Literature of Himalayan Adventure Travel
Chapter 8: Histories, Hedgestories, and Herdstories: Beast Fables and Paleo Polities in Recent Animated Movies
| Erscheinungsdatum | 26.01.2023 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 231 mm |
| Gewicht | 517 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-7936-3396-7 / 1793633967 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-7936-3396-5 / 9781793633965 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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