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TY - JOUR
T1 - Cultural political economy of competitiveness, competition, and competition policy in Asia
AU - Sum, Ngai-Ling
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Distinktion on 16/10/2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/1600910X.2015.1059771
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - This article employs cultural political economy to explore, interpret, and explain the articulation of competition, competitiveness, and competition policies in Asia in the current neo-liberal era. It describes how this approach explores social order and change in terms of the interaction between semiosis and structuration in the context of four types of selectivity: structural, agential, discursive, and technological. It then outlines an analytical framework and methodology to apply this approach to the chosen case study. This concerns how these modes of selectivity have operated since the 1997 ‘Asian Crisis’ to produce changes in the policy discourses and practices of the World Bank and its Asian regional agencies with the declared aim of reducing poverty, enhancing competitiveness, and promoting corresponding forms of competition policy. Next it examines how these discourses and practices are assembling a new dispositive around an emerging disciplinary and governmentalized socioeconomic-cum-legal order in the wake of the Doha conjuncture in Asia. The concluding remarks address some tensions and challenges in the making of this competitiveness order in Asia.
AB - This article employs cultural political economy to explore, interpret, and explain the articulation of competition, competitiveness, and competition policies in Asia in the current neo-liberal era. It describes how this approach explores social order and change in terms of the interaction between semiosis and structuration in the context of four types of selectivity: structural, agential, discursive, and technological. It then outlines an analytical framework and methodology to apply this approach to the chosen case study. This concerns how these modes of selectivity have operated since the 1997 ‘Asian Crisis’ to produce changes in the policy discourses and practices of the World Bank and its Asian regional agencies with the declared aim of reducing poverty, enhancing competitiveness, and promoting corresponding forms of competition policy. Next it examines how these discourses and practices are assembling a new dispositive around an emerging disciplinary and governmentalized socioeconomic-cum-legal order in the wake of the Doha conjuncture in Asia. The concluding remarks address some tensions and challenges in the making of this competitiveness order in Asia.
KW - Asian Development Bank
KW - competition policy
KW - competitiveness
KW - cultural political economy
KW - discourse
KW - dispositive
KW - poverty reduction
KW - World Bank
U2 - 10.1080/1600910X.2015.1059771
DO - 10.1080/1600910X.2015.1059771
M3 - Journal article
VL - 16
SP - 211
EP - 228
JO - Distinktion - Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory
JF - Distinktion - Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory
SN - 1600-910X
IS - 2
ER -