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TY - JOUR
T1 - Cultural political economy and critical policy studies
AU - Jessop, Bob
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - This article introduces cultural political economy as a distinctive approach in the social sciences, including policy studies. The version presented here combines critical semiotic analysis and critical political economy. It grounds its approach to both in the practical necessities of complexity reduction and the role of meaning-making and structuration in turning unstructured into structured complexity as a basis for ‘going on’ in the world. It explores both semiosis and structuration in terms of the evolutionary mechanisms of variation, selection, and retention and, in this context, also highlights the role of specific forms of agency and specific technologies. These general propositions are illustrated from ‘economic imaginaries’ (other types of imaginary could have been examined) and their relevance to economic policy. Brief comments on crisis-interpretation and crisis-management give this example some substance. The conclusion notes some implications for research in critical policy studies.
AB - This article introduces cultural political economy as a distinctive approach in the social sciences, including policy studies. The version presented here combines critical semiotic analysis and critical political economy. It grounds its approach to both in the practical necessities of complexity reduction and the role of meaning-making and structuration in turning unstructured into structured complexity as a basis for ‘going on’ in the world. It explores both semiosis and structuration in terms of the evolutionary mechanisms of variation, selection, and retention and, in this context, also highlights the role of specific forms of agency and specific technologies. These general propositions are illustrated from ‘economic imaginaries’ (other types of imaginary could have been examined) and their relevance to economic policy. Brief comments on crisis-interpretation and crisis-management give this example some substance. The conclusion notes some implications for research in critical policy studies.
KW - cultural political economy
KW - policy studies
KW - semiosis
KW - green new deal
KW - critical realism
KW - complexity
KW - crisis
KW - crisis-management
KW - cultural turn
KW - cultural political economy
KW - finance-led accumulation
KW - Green New Deal
KW - neo-liberalism
U2 - 10.1080/19460171003619741
DO - 10.1080/19460171003619741
M3 - Journal article
VL - 3
SP - 336
EP - 356
JO - Critical Policy Studies
JF - Critical Policy Studies
SN - 1946-0171
IS - 3-4
ER -