The strange geographies of the 'new' state capitalism
The strange geographies of the 'new' state capitalism
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DOI：
10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102237
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发表时间：
2020-10-01
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
Dixon, Adam D.
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作者：
Alami, Ilias;Dixon, Adam D.
国家干预和随之而来的政治地理最近的多态性被解释为国家资本主义的回归。虽然社会科学界的评论家们对新国家资本主义提出了相互竞争的描述，但很少有人关注新国家资本主义的叙事和地理学如何作为地缘政治知识和实践的一种形式运作。借鉴批判性地缘政治学，我们提出三个主要论点。首先，我们考察了更广泛的地缘政治和地缘经济变化的背景下，社会建设的地缘范畴已经发生。我们认为，新兴的全球经济的空间性，促使需要新的话语框架和地缘政治的推理。其次，我们认为，这种需要是由地理类别的国家资本主义，它作为一个强大的工具，在分类和等级化的世界政治空间。它通过重建两个容易识别的主角--（西方）民主自由市场资本主义和它的离经叛道的“他者”（东方）威权国家资本主义--之间竞争的简单叙事，并通过重新激活更古老的地缘政治宏大叙事来实现这一点。第三，地缘范畴的国家资本主义使西方企业和国家行为者能够在三个领域证明更强硬的政策立场是合理的：外交政策;贸易、技术和投资监管;以及国际发展。
The recent polymorphism of state intervention and attendant political geographies have been interpreted as a return of state capitalism. While commentators across the social sciences have offered competing characterizations of the new state capitalism, little attention has been dedicated to how narratives and geographical imaginal-Ms of the new state capitalism operate as a form of geopolitical knowledge and practice. Drawing upon critical geopolitics, we make three main arguments. First, we examine the context of wider geopolitical and geoeconomic shifts in which the social construction of the geo-category has happened. We contend that the emerging new spatiality of the global economy has prompted the need for new discursive frames and geopolitical lines of reasoning. Second, we argue that this need is fulfilled by the geo-category state capitalism, which acts as a powerful tool in categorizing and hierarchizing the spaces of world politics. It does so by reinstituting a simple narrative of competition between two easily identifiable protagonists - (Western) democratic free-market capitalism and its deviant 'other', (Eastern) authoritarian state capitalism - and by reactivating older geopolitical grand narratives. Third, the geo-category state capitalism discursively enables Western business and state actors to justify tougher policy stances in three areas: foreign policy; trade, technology, and investment regulation; and international development.