Thomas Strychacz

Popular Culture and Political Economic Thought (eBook, PDF)

Fables of Commonwealth

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978777972
• Artikelnr.: 74398493

Autorenporträt

Thomas Strychacz is Frederick A. Rice Professor of English at Mills College at Northeastern University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: The Political Economy of Potato Farming on Mars in Andy Weir's
The Martian
Chapter 2: Virtual Commonwealths of the Great Recession: The Obamas' Garden
and Farm Management Games
Chapter 3: Life in the Wilds: Plots of Polity in Harriet Martineau and
Survivor
Chapter 4: Challenging the Privilege of Again: Recursive Plots of Polity in
Octavia Butler's Dawn and Nalo Hopkinson's MidnightRobber
Chapter 5: "Should've kept better care of her": The Political Economy of
Joss Whedon's Firefly
Chapter 6: Feast Fables: The Bioeconomics of Turkeys and Roast Beast
Chapter 7: Yak Burgers and Black Tea: Consumption, Deprivation, and the
Literature of Himalayan Adventure Travel
Chapter 8: Histories, Hedgestories, and Herdstories: Beast Fables and Paleo
Polities in Recent Animated Movies