Jessop, Bob (2005) Cultural political economy, the knowledge-based economy, and the state. In: The Technological Economy. Routledge, London, pp. 144-166. ISBN 0415336066
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This chapter explores the interconnected roles of discourse and governance in constituting the knowledge-based economy in response to the alleged crisis of Atlantic Fordism. It interprets the globalizing knowledge-based economy (KBE) as an increasingly hegemonic meta-object of governance (and, indeed, meta-governance) that involves a complex, heterogeneous, and variable assemblage of social relations, which are articulated to a distinctive set of subjectivities and mediated through material objects and social institutions. It also traces the rise of the KBE as a provisional, partial, and unstable product of distinctive discourses and material practices. It should be emphasized at once that these claims do not imply that capitalism is always characterized by such hegemonic meta-objects of (meta-)governance nor that the latter have some predetermined lifespan (let alone a predetermined life-course) that coincides with some preordained logic of capital. Instead the approach developed here is precisely concerned with what I have elsewhere termed the �contingent necessity� of durable institutional orders and with what actor-network theorists have elsewhere described as the problem of how Leviathan (and, by extension, other institutional ensembles) get �screwed down� and actors are enrolled behind them (Jessop 1982; Callon and Latour 1981; Callon and Law 1982).
| Item Type: | Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Cultural political economy ; the knowledge-based economy ; state ; governance ; meta-governance |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
| Departments: | Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences > Sociology |
| ID Code: | 191 |
| Deposited By: | Professor Bob Jessop |
| Deposited On: | 22 Jun 2006 |
| Refereed?: | No |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jul 2012 21:10 |
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| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/191 |
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