Scandalous Economics

Of all of the lies, fragile alliances, and predatory financial dealings that have been revealed in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, we have yet to come to terms with the ways in which structural inequalities around gender and race factor into (and indeed make possible) the current economic order. Scandalous Economics is about "silences" - the astonishing neglect of gender and race in explanations of the Global Financial Crisis. But, it is also about "noises" - the sexual scandals and gendered austerity policies that have relegated public debate, and the crisis itself, into political oblivion. While feminist economists and movements such as Occupy Wall Street have pointed to the distributional inequalities that are an effect of financial deregulation, scholars haven't really grappled with the representational inequalities inherent in the way we view the politics of the market. For example, capitalism won't be made more equitable simply by appointing women to leadership positions within financial firms or corporations. And the next crisis will not be averted if our understandings of gendered inequalities are framed by sexual scandals in media and popular culture. We need to look at the activities and the privileges of the advantaged - the "TED women" of the crisis -- as much as the victimization of the disadvantaged - to fully grasp the interplay between gender and economy in this fragile age of restoration. Scandalous Economics breaks new ground by doing precisely this. It argues that normalization of the post-GFC economic order in the face of its obvious breakdown(s) has been facilitated by co-optation of feminist and queer perspectives into national and international responses to the crisis. Scandalous Economics builds upon the Occupy movement and other critical analysis of the GFC to comprehensively examine gendered material, ideational and representational dimensions that have served to make the crisis and its effects, 'the new normal' in Europe and America as well as Latin America and Asia.

Auteur

Aida A. Hozic is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Florida. Jacqui True is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Monash University.

Contenu

Acknowledgments About the Contributors I. Scandalous Gendering Chapter 1: Making Feminist Sense of the Global Financial Crisis Aida Hozic and Jacqui True Chapter 2: Lehman Brothers and Sisters: Revisiting Gender and After the Financial Crisis Elisabeth Prugl Chapter 3: The Global Financial Crisis' Silver Bullet: Women Leaders and Leaning-In Jacqui True Chapter 4: Finance, Financialization and the Production of Gender Adrienne Roberts II. Scandalous Obfuscations Chapter 5: Broken Britain: Post-Crisis Austerity and the Trouble with the Troubled Families Program Daniela Tepe-Belfrage and Johnna Montgomerie Chapter 6: Constitutionalizing Austerity, Disciplining the Household - Masculine Norms of Competitiveness and the Crisis of Social Reproduction in the Eurozone Ian Bruff and Stefanie Wohl Chapter 7: Whose Crisis? Whose Recovery? Lessons Learnt (and Not) from the Asian Crisis Juanita Elias Chapter 8: "To double oppression, double rebellion": Women, Capital and Crisis in 'Post-neoliberal' Latin America Guillermina Seri III. Scandalous Sex Chapter 9: Exploits and Exploitations: A Micro and Macro Analysis of the 'DSK Affair' Celeste Montoya Chapter 10: We, Neoliberals Aida Hozic Chapter 11: Gender, Finance and Embodiments of Crisis Penny Griffin IV. Scandalizing Reimaginings Chapter 12: Global Raciality of Capitalism and 'Primitive' Accumulation: (Un) Making the Death Limit Anna Agathangelou Chapter 13: Towards a Queer Political Economy of Crisis Nicola Smith Chapter 14: Self-Reproducing Movements and the Enduring Challenge of Materialist Feminism Wanda Vrasti Afterword: Gendering the Crisis Marieke De Goede References Index