'Out in the dark': knowledge, power and IPE in southern Africa

Main author: Vale, Peter
Other authors: Thakur, Vineet
Format: Journal Article           
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description Benjamin Cohen's disciplinary history of international political economy (IPE) begins with the premise that Africa has had little to contribute to this global discipline. Differing from this view, we argue that disciplinary histories such as Cohen's elide the relationship between the discipline and its field. It is only through the juxtaposition of knowledge, power and politics that we can arrive at a fuller historical understanding of theinternational political economy. We further argue that political economy as an intellectual project has been central to the creation of the political economy of southern Africa. In a historical narrative of this idea in this region, we demonstrate that states and markets have remained prisoners of their mainstream intellectual manifestations, although subversive lives of political economy persist in some critical corners.
format Journal Article
author Vale, Peter
author_facet Vale, Peter
Thakur, Vineet
authorStr Vale, Peter
author_letter Vale, Peter
author2 Thakur, Vineet
author2Str Thakur, Vineet
title 'Out in the dark': knowledge, power and IPE in southern Africa
publisher Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
publishDate 2015
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/23891/