CANS 406 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: International Political Economy, Social Reproduction, Neoliberalism
22 May 2018
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Gender and “Wartime” International Political Economy
-IPE understood as the interaction of the state and the market, as well as non-state actors
-Emerged as a field in the 1970s in the context of growing economic interdependence,
increased FDI, and the transformation of international trade structures
-Nixon’s devaluation of the dollar, unpegging from Gold Standard, OPEC crisis
-Implications of IPE for security or humanitarian scholars
-Realists consider economic interactions as a component of power of states, but developments in
the 1970s show that economic development was shaped by politics
-Questioned how we understand power (not just military) and demanded a whole field for
such questions
-Feminists have made major contributions to IPE, though they remain marginal
-Gender and IPE (GIPE) studies how social relations in the IPE context are gendered, like how
men and women are differently situated
-Rai argues that the outcomes have been “largely negative for women, although not for
all women”
-Rai stresses that we need to think of relationships between the market, state, gender, and social
relations as co-constitutive
-Ignoring social relations and gender in IPE gives us a distorted version of the world
-These are often treated as separate
-Feminist IPE is very diverse and difficult to generalize, but critiques mainstream economic
theory and policy
-Suggests alternative modes of analysis that highlight both productive and reproductive
economies
-Creates new methodologies to bring these relationships into focus
-Not necessarily overlapping with GIPE, but closely associated
-Feminist political economists and GIPE both analyze how states, markets are gendered and have
concerns about the gendered nature of structures and agency
-They both challenge the public/private divide – private work, like raising and feeding
children, for example, directly affects the workforce and public work
-Show links between micro and macro-economic systems
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Document Summary
Ipe understood as the interaction of the state and the market, as well as non-state actors. Emerged as a field in the 1970s in the context of growing economic interdependence, increased fdi, and the transformation of international trade structures. Nixon"s devaluation of the dollar, unpegging from gold standard, opec crisis. Implications of ipe for security or humanitarian scholars. Realists consider economic interactions as a component of power of states, but developments in the 1970s show that economic development was shaped by politics. Questioned how we understand power (not just military) and demanded a whole field for such questions. Feminists have made major contributions to ipe, though they remain marginal. Gender and ipe (gipe) studies how social relations in the ipe context are gendered, like how men and women are differently situated. Rai argues that the outcomes have been largely negative for women, although not for all women .
