Geographies of marketization
Geographies of marketization
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市场化的地域
DOI:
10.1002/9781118384497.ch12
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发表时间:
2012
影响因子:
1.8
通讯作者:
M. Boeckler
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文献类型:
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作者:
C. Berndt;M. Boeckler
Markets are everywhere. While market exchange has existed for millenia, market society came into full existence only at the end of the twentieth century, in an era of neoliberal market orientation. What differentiates market societies from other ways of stabilizing and integrating economic life–gift giving, subsistence, socialist, kinship-based economies and other forms of institutionalized redistribution or reciprocity–is not only that distribution is structured through market exchange but that the social is thought of as an appendix of an unregulated market (Polanyi 1944 (2001): 59ff). Crucially, the impersonal rationality and calculativity accompanying market exchange as a specific form of human action (Weber 1922 (1988)) triggers fundamental transformations of the social in general. Markets involve anonymization, the cutting of social ties, and rational, calculative, and efficient post-social coordination. We refer to this modality of economization as “marketization”(Caliskan and Callon 2010: 2). Offering new perspectives towards the emergence of market orders and their continuous expansion,“geographies of marketization” consider the global age as governed by a market dispositif or a “market socio-technical agencement” where market devices and economists–academic economists, business experts, and “economists in the wild”–play a fundamental part in shaping, designing, and formatting marketization. Indeed, marketization can be read as radical translation processes, which ensure that economic and social realities are brought into line with the laboratory conditions of economic modeling–allowing the radical project of neoclassical economics to realize itself (Callon, Millo, and Muniesa 2007; MacKenzie, Muniesa, and Siu 2007). This “extreme phase of capitalist development in which we live”(Agamben 2009: 15) is accompanied by “a massive accumulation and proliferation of apparatuses,” of market devices inhibiting our shared hybrid collectif and steering complicated algorithms of distributed action and cognition. Accordingly, geographies of marketization