Capitalism in Transformation: Movements and Countermovements in the 21st Century,Roland Atzmüller

-About this book

Presenting a profound and far-reaching analysis of economic, ecological, social, cultural and political developments of contemporary capitalism, this book draws on the work of Karl Polanyi, and re-reads it for our times. The renowned authors offer key insights to current changes in the relations between the economy, politics and society, and their ecological and social effects.

They explore the commodification of land, labour, money, care and knowledge, and analyse labour and social movements, right-wing populism and religious fundamentalism.

Bringing together insights from different parts of the world and from historical, theoretical and empirical research, the book sheds light on important facets of the crisis-driven transformation of contemporary capitalism.
Social and political science scholars will greatly benefit from this timely analysis of contemporary capitalism. Those researching economic history and the impact of Polanyi’s work on the analysis of the modern society will also find this a useful read.

-Contents

List of contributors viii

1- Polanyian perspectives on the movements and countermovements of “our time”: an introduction 1

Roland Atzmüller, Brigitte Aulenbacher, Ulrich Brand,

Fabienne Décieux, Karin Fischer and Birgit Sauer

PART I :HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL

REFLECTIONS: KARL POLANYI,

CAPITALISM AND SOCIETY

2- A life-long search for freedom. From Budapest to

America and back: a journey through Karl Polanyi’s life 22

Kari Polanyi-Levitt, interviewed by Michael Brie and

Claus Thomasberger

3- “Plunges into utter destruction” and the limits of historical  capitalism 35

Beverly J. Silver

4- Crises and transformations: suggestions from Karl

Polanyi’s works 46

Michele Cangiani

5- Karl Polanyi as a theorist of disembedded markets 60

Christoph Deutschmann

6- A Polanyian paradox: money and credit as fictitious commodities, financialization, finance-dominated

accumulation, and financial crises 75

Bob Jessop

PART II :CONTEMPORARY DEVELOPMENTS OF SOCIETY AND CAPITALISM IN EUROPE

AND BEYOND

7 Polanyian perspectives on capitalisms after socialism 92

Dorothee Bohle and Béla Greskovits

8 Economy–society tensions in the Eurozone: the

“anti-democratic virus” revived 105

Maria Markantonatou

9- Political Islam as reactionary countermovement 119

Ayşe Buğra

10- “Freedom’s utter frustration…”: considerations on

neoliberal social-policy reforms and the shift to the far-right through Polanyi’s theory of fascism 135

Roland Atzmüller and Fabienne Décieux

11- Völkisch populism: a Polanyian-type movement? 152

Karina Becker and Klaus Dörre

12- Cultural war 2.0? The relevance of gender in the radical populist-nationalist right 169

Birgit Sauer

PART III: “FICTITIOUS COMMODITIES” AND THE CHALLENGES OF “OUR TIME”

13- Contested social-ecological transformation: shortcomings of current debates and Polanyian perspectives 184

Ulrich Brand, Christoph Görg and Markus Wissen

14- Polanyi, nature and the international: the missing dimension of imperial ecocide 198

Vishwas Satgar and Michelle Williams

15-Soy expansion and countermovements in the Global South:a Polanyian perspective 212

Karin Fischer and Ernst Langthaler

16- Navigating between improvement and habitation: countermovements in housing and urban infrastructure in Vienna 228

Andreas Novy, Richard Bärnthaler and Basil Stadelmann

17- The “fictitious commodity” care and the reciprocity of caring: a Polanyian and neo-institutionalist perspective on the brokering of 24-hour care 245

Brigitte Aulenbacher and Michael Leiblfinger

18-The commodification of informal care:joining and resisting marketization processes 261

Bernhard Weicht

19 -Polanyi’s double movement and the making of the “knowledge economy” 274

Antonino Palumbo and Alan Scott

20 Polanyi and the digital transformation of labour: on fictitious commodities and real conflicts 289

Hans-Jürgen Urban

Index 307

-caractéristiques

Date de parution:7 novembre 2019

Éditeur : Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd

Langue : Anglais

NB.de pages: 336 pages

ISBN-10 : 1788974239

ISBN-13 : 978-1788974233

Poids de l’article : 590 g

Dimensions : 15.88 x 1.91 x 24.13 cm