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Popular Culture and Political Economic Thought
Fables of Commonwealth
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2023
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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. Popular Culture and Political Economic Thought: Fables of Commonwealth examines a variety of animated movies, TV shows, written fictions, adventure travelogues, and Paleo archeologies (and diets) to suggest that popular culture poses a multiform challenge to the failing theories and practices of neoclassical economics. This book 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.
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2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-3396-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-3397-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
248
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Preface No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 28
The Political Economy of Potato Farming on Mars in Andy Weir’s The Martian No access Pages 29 - 50
Virtual Commonwealths of the Great Recession No access Pages 51 - 78
Life in the Wilds No access Pages 79 - 100
Challenging the Privilege of Again No access Pages 101 - 120
“Should’ve Kept Better Care of Her” No access Pages 121 - 140
Feast Fables No access Pages 141 - 166
Yak Burgers and Black Tea No access Pages 167 - 192
Histories, Hedgestories, Herdstories No access Pages 193 - 222
