Gate-opening political economy
| Author | Adam David Morton,Andreas Bieler |
| Published date | 01 March 2021 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0047117821991878 |
| Date | 01 March 2021 |
| Subject Matter | A Necessarily Historical Materialist Moment? Forum on Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis |
https://doi.org/10.1177/0047117821991878
International Relations
2021, Vol. 35(1) 188 –194
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Gate-opening political
economy
Andreas Bieler
University of Nottingham
Adam David Morton
University of Sydney
Keywords
global capitalism, global war, global crisis, political economy, marxism
There is a spirit of critique that is dialogical, sincere, and rigorous that defines this forum
on Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis from authorities we regard as shaping
the recent past, the now present, and the near future of political economy.1 Our rejoinder
as well as our wider work is articulated in the same spirit as a contribution to gate-
opening political economy with a focus on inducing dialogue by furthering decolonial/
feminist/historical materialist/poststructuralist and mainstream debate in and beyond the
discipline. This is to be contrasted with gate-keeping the mainstream of International
Studies, including certain strands of International Political Economy (IPE), from directly
engaging the Marxist curiosity we have consistently articulated in our work.2 Indeed, our
call for a necessarily historical materialist moment aims to address some of the existing
blind spots and exclusions in IPE.3
Ian Bruff points to a crucial evolvement in the literary rhythm of our work that
becomes captured in the transition within the thematic considerations in Part II of
GCGWGC. Here, the focus starts from an appreciation of the structuring conditions of
uneven and combined development, geopolitics, passive revolution, and the internal
relations between capitalism and the international states-system. Then, there is a shift
towards our emphasis on the social factory as a locus of contested and expanded forms
of class agency, including the reorganisation of reproductive work, housing, public
space, and the family as well as struggles over the exploitation of human/extra-human
Corresponding author:
Andreas Bieler, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG9 5BQ, UK.
Email: andreas.bieler@nottingham.ac.uk
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