Affective Politics of the Global Event

A contribution to the growing field of everyday and cultural political economy that foregrounds the role of everyday market subjects and cultural practices in IPE. A good third of the book is dedicated to the re-politicisation of trauma and resilience so as to recover and enhance the potential agency of market subjects. Distinct from the arguments of previous works on the subject in two main ways; 1) emplaces the dynamic of the global event and portrays the contingent emergence of the affective turn as an ethical achievement per se: something which people have argued for, debated, adjusted, or modified over time and in response to criticism; and thus 2) by recognising the contingency and malleability of affect, argues that the potential for intervention, resistance, and agency of market subjects is far greater than might be supposed.