The red herring of economism: A reply to Marieke de Goede

Review of International Studies

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Laffey, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1017/S0260210504006175     Document Type: Note

References (67)

1. Review of International Studies, 29 (2003), pp. 79-97; p. 80.
2. Mark Laffey, 'Locating Identity: Performativity, Foreign Policy and State Action', Review of International Studies, 26 (2000), pp. 429-44.
3. De Goede, 'Beyond Economism', p. 80.
4. Economism can be understood in a variety of ways, de Goede appears to equate my position with what Richard Ashley terms variable economism; see 'Three Modes of Economism', International Studies Quarterly, 27:4 (1983), pp. 463-96.
5. David Campbell, National Deconstruction: Violence, Identity and Justice in Bosnia (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1998), p. 254, n.33.
6. David Campbell, Writing Security: United States Foreign Policy and the Politics of Identity, revised edn. (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1998), p.4; quoted in Laffey, 'Locating Identity', p. 429.
7. David Campbell, Writing Security: United States Foreign Policy and the Politics of Identity, revised edn. (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1998), p.4; quoted in Laffey, 'Locating Identity', p. 429.
8. Laffey, 'Locating Identity', pp. 430, 438.
9. For example, in text at fn. 13, where she quotes me quoting Rosemary Hennessy; compare Laffey, 'Locating Identity', p. 439.
10. Mark Laffey and Kathryn Dean, A Flexible Marxism for Flexible Times: Globalization and Historical Materialism', in Mark Rupert and Hazel Smith (eds.), Historical Materialism and Globalization (London: Routledge, 2002), pp. 90-109.
11. Mark Laffey and Jutta Weldes, 'Beyond Belief: From Ideas to Symbolic Technologies in the Study of International Relations', European Journal of International Relations, 3:2 (1997), pp. 193-237. Interestingly, de Goede fails to cite this article.
12. de Goede, 'Beyond Economism', p. 87.
13. See, for example, Andrew Gamble, 'Marxism after Communism: Beyond Realism and Historicism', Review of International Studies, 25:Special Issue (1999), pp. 127-44.
14. Frederick Engels, 'Letter to J. Bloch', quoted in Derek Sayer, The Violence of Abstraction: The Analytic Foundations of Historical Materialism (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987), p. 10-11.
15. 14 See Marxism and the Philosophy of Language (New York: Seminar Press, 1973 [1930]); on the contested authorship of this text, see Katerina Clark and Michael Holquist, Mikhail Bakhtin (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984). Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg (eds.), Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1988) is an overview of Marxist thought in the early 1980s, that is, 20 years ago.
16. 14 See Marxism and the Philosophy of Language (New York: Seminar Press, 1973 [1930]); on the contested authorship of this text, see Katerina Clark and Michael Holquist, Mikhail Bakhtin (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984). Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg (eds.), Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1988) is an overview of Marxist thought in the early 1980s, that is, 20 years ago.
17. 14 See Marxism and the Philosophy of Language (New York: Seminar Press, 1973 [1930]); on the contested authorship of this text, see Katerina Clark and Michael Holquist, Mikhail Bakhtin (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984). Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg (eds.), Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1988) is an overview of Marxist thought in the early 1980s, that is, 20 years ago.
18. See Stephen Cullenberg, 'Althusser and the Decentering of the Marxist Totality', in Antonio Callari and David C. Ruccio (eds.), Postmodern Materialism and the Future of Marxist Theory: Essays in the Althusserian Tradition (Hanover: Wesleyan University Press, 1996), pp. 120-49; cf. Laffey, 'Locating Identity', p. 438.
19. See Stephen Cullenberg, 'Althusser and the Decentering of the Marxist Totality', in Antonio Callari and David C. Ruccio (eds.), Postmodern Materialism and the Future of Marxist Theory: Essays in the Althusserian Tradition (Hanover: Wesleyan University Press, 1996), pp. 120-49; cf. Laffey, 'Locating Identity', p. 438.
20. He also rejected Cartesian models, which deploy a methodologically individualist and atomistic conception of social reality.
21. Laffey and Dean, 'A Flexible Marxism for Flexible Times', p. 100.
22. Quotes in this paragraph are from Laffey and Dean, p. 99.
23. Peter Jackson, Maps of Meaning: An Introduction to Cultural Geography (New York: Routledge, 1992), p. 46, n. 6.
24. See, for example, Jacob Torfing, New Theories of Discourse: Laclau, Mouffe and Zizek (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999), ch. 1. Cf. J.K. Gibson-Graham, The End of Capitalism (as we knew it): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996) and Robert Paul Resch, Althusser and the Renewal of Marxist Social Theory (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992) for two different, if related, readings of Althusser's legacy.
25. See, for example, Jacob Torfing, New Theories of Discourse: Laclau, Mouffe and Zizek (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999), ch. 1. Cf. J.K. Gibson-Graham, The End of Capitalism (as we knew it): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996) and Robert Paul Resch, Althusser and the Renewal of Marxist Social Theory (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992) for two different, if related, readings of Althusser's legacy.
26. See, for example, Jacob Torfing, New Theories of Discourse: Laclau, Mouffe and Zizek (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999), ch. 1. Cf. J.K. Gibson-Graham, The End of Capitalism (as we knew it): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996) and Robert Paul Resch, Althusser and the Renewal of Marxist Social Theory (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992) for two different, if related, readings of Althusser's legacy.
27. See, respectively, Resch, Althusser and the Renewal of Marxist Social Theory, n. 1, pp. 377-8; Alain Lipietz, 'From Althusserianism to "Regulation Theory"', in E. Ann Kaplan and Michael Sprinker (eds.), The Althusserian Legacy (London: Verso, 1993), pp. 99-138; Stuart Hall, 'Signification, Representation, Ideology: Althusser and the Post-Structuralist Debates', Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 2:2 (1985), pp. 91-114; and Stephen A. Resnick and Richard D. Wolff, Knowledge and Class (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1987).
28. See, respectively, Resch, Althusser and the Renewal of Marxist Social Theory, n. 1, pp. 377-8; Alain Lipietz, 'From Althusserianism to "Regulation Theory"', in E. Ann Kaplan and Michael Sprinker (eds.), The Althusserian Legacy (London: Verso, 1993), pp. 99-138; Stuart Hall, 'Signification, Representation, Ideology: Althusser and the Post-Structuralist Debates', Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 2:2 (1985), pp. 91-114; and Stephen A. Resnick and Richard D. Wolff, Knowledge and Class (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1987).
29. See, respectively, Resch, Althusser and the Renewal of Marxist Social Theory, n. 1, pp. 377-8; Alain Lipietz, 'From Althusserianism to "Regulation Theory"', in E. Ann Kaplan and Michael Sprinker (eds.), The Althusserian Legacy (London: Verso, 1993), pp. 99-138; Stuart Hall, 'Signification, Representation, Ideology: Althusser and the Post-Structuralist Debates', Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 2:2 (1985), pp. 91-114; and Stephen A. Resnick and Richard D. Wolff, Knowledge and Class (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1987).
30. See, respectively, Resch, Althusser and the Renewal of Marxist Social Theory, n. 1, pp. 377-8; Alain Lipietz, 'From Althusserianism to "Regulation Theory"', in E. Ann Kaplan and Michael Sprinker (eds.), The Althusserian Legacy (London: Verso, 1993), pp. 99-138; Stuart Hall, 'Signification, Representation, Ideology: Althusser and the Post-Structuralist Debates', Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 2:2 (1985), pp. 91-114; and Stephen A. Resnick and Richard D. Wolff, Knowledge and Class (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1987).
31. For an exemplary statement, see David Campbell, 'Political Prosaics, Transversal Politics, and the Anarchical World', in Michael Shapiro and Hayward Alker (eds.), Challenging Boundaries (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press), pp. 7-31; see also Jim George, Discourses of Global Politics: A Critical (Re)Introduction to International Relations (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1994).
32. For an exemplary statement, see David Campbell, 'Political Prosaics, Transversal Politics, and the Anarchical World', in Michael Shapiro and Hayward Alker (eds.), Challenging Boundaries (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press), pp. 7-31; see also Jim George, Discourses of Global Politics: A Critical (Re)Introduction to International Relations (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1994).
33. Two significant exceptions to this are Kees van der Pijl, The Making of a North Atlantic Ruling Class (London: Verso, 1984) which draws on Nicos Poulantzas, and Ronen Palan and Barry Gills (eds.), Transcending the State-Global Divide: A Neostructuralist Agenda in International Relations (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1994).
34. Two significant exceptions to this are Kees van der Pijl, The Making of a North Atlantic Ruling Class (London: Verso, 1984) which draws on Nicos Poulantzas, and Ronen Palan and Barry Gills (eds.), Transcending the State-Global Divide: A Neostructuralist Agenda in International Relations (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1994).
35. See, for example, Heikki Patomakki, After International Relations: Critical Realism and the (Re) Construction of World Politics (London: Routledge, 2002).
36. See, for example Michael Dunford, 'Globalization and Theories of Regulation', in Ronen Palan (ed.), Global Political Economy: Contemporary Theories (London: Routledge, 2000), pp. 143-67; cf. Alex Callinicos, 'Periodizing Capitalism and Analyzing Imperialism: Classical Marxism and Capitalist Evolution', in Robert Albritton et al. (eds.), Phases of Capitalist Development (New York: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 230-45.
37. See, for example Michael Dunford, 'Globalization and Theories of Regulation', in Ronen Palan (ed.), Global Political Economy: Contemporary Theories (London: Routledge, 2000), pp. 143-67; cf. Alex Callinicos, 'Periodizing Capitalism and Analyzing Imperialism: Classical Marxism and Capitalist Evolution', in Robert Albritton et al. (eds.), Phases of Capitalist Development (New York: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 230-45.
38. See, for example, Jutta Weldes, Constructing National Interests: The United States and the Cuban Missile Crisis (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1999); and 'Globalization is Science Fiction', Millennium, 30:3 (2001), pp. 647-67; but cf. Mark Rupert, Ideologies of Globalization (London: Routledge, 2000).
39. See, for example, Jutta Weldes, Constructing National Interests: The United States and the Cuban Missile Crisis (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1999); and 'Globalization is Science Fiction', Millennium, 30:3 (2001), pp. 647-67; but cf. Mark Rupert, Ideologies of Globalization (London: Routledge, 2000).
40. See, for example, Jutta Weldes, Constructing National Interests: The United States and the Cuban Missile Crisis (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1999); and 'Globalization is Science Fiction', Millennium, 30:3 (2001), pp. 647-67; but cf. Mark Rupert, Ideologies of Globalization (London: Routledge, 2000).
41. See, for example, Andrew Levine, A Future for Marxism? Althusser, The Analytical Turn and the Revival of Socialist Theory (London: Pluto, 2003). Cf. Jutta Weldes, 'Marxism and Methodological Individualism: A Critique', Theory and Society, 18:3 (1989), pp. 353-86.
42. See, for example, Andrew Levine, A Future for Marxism? Althusser, The Analytical Turn and the Revival of Socialist Theory (London: Pluto, 2003). Cf. Jutta Weldes, 'Marxism and Methodological Individualism: A Critique', Theory and Society, 18:3 (1989), pp. 353-86.
43. See, for example, Benno Teschke, The Myth of 1648: Class, Geopolitics and the Making of Modern International Relations (London: Verso, 2003); Alejandro Colas, International Civil Society (Cambridge: Polity, 2002); and Mark Rupert and Hazel Smith (eds.), Historical Materialism and Globalization (London: Routledge, 2002). But cf. the important intervention by Bob Jessop and Ngai-Ling Sum, 'Pre-disciplinary and Post-disciplinary Perspectives', New Political Economy, 6:1 (2001), pp. 89-101.
44. See, for example, Benno Teschke, The Myth of 1648: Class, Geopolitics and the Making of Modern International Relations (London: Verso, 2003); Alejandro Colas, International Civil Society (Cambridge: Polity, 2002); and Mark Rupert and Hazel Smith (eds.), Historical Materialism and Globalization (London: Routledge, 2002). But cf. the important intervention by Bob Jessop and Ngai-Ling Sum, 'Pre-disciplinary and Post-disciplinary Perspectives', New Political Economy, 6:1 (2001), pp. 89-101.
45. See, for example, Benno Teschke, The Myth of 1648: Class, Geopolitics and the Making of Modern International Relations (London: Verso, 2003); Alejandro Colas, International Civil Society (Cambridge: Polity, 2002); and Mark Rupert and Hazel Smith (eds.), Historical Materialism and Globalization (London: Routledge, 2002). But cf. the important intervention by Bob Jessop and Ngai-Ling Sum, 'Pre-disciplinary and Post-disciplinary Perspectives', New Political Economy, 6:1 (2001), pp. 89-101.
46. See, for example, Benno Teschke, The Myth of 1648: Class, Geopolitics and the Making of Modern International Relations (London: Verso, 2003); Alejandro Colas, International Civil Society (Cambridge: Polity, 2002); and Mark Rupert and Hazel Smith (eds.), Historical Materialism and Globalization (London: Routledge, 2002). But cf. the important intervention by Bob Jessop and Ngai-Ling Sum, 'Pre-disciplinary and Post-disciplinary Perspectives', New Political Economy, 6:1 (2001), pp. 89-101.
47. See, for example, Gregory Elliott, Althusser: The Detour of Theory (London: Verso, 1987); cf. Resch, Althusser and the Renewal of Marxist Social Theory.
48. See, for example, Gregory Elliott, Althusser: The Detour of Theory (London: Verso, 1987); cf. Resch, Althusser and the Renewal of Marxist Social Theory.
49. See, for example, Perry Anderson, In the Tracks of Historical Materialism (London: Verso, 1983).
50. The Poverty of Theory and Other Essays (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1978).
51. Richard Ashley, 'The Poverty of Neorealism', International Organization, 38:2 (1984), p. 227.
52. Laffey and Dean, 'A Flexible Marxism for Flexible Times'; Michael Sprinker, Imaginary Relations: Aesthetics and Ideology in the Theory of Historical Materialism (London: Verso, 1987).
53. Laffey and Dean, 'A Flexible Marxism for Flexible Times'; Michael Sprinker, Imaginary Relations: Aesthetics and Ideology in the Theory of Historical Materialism (London: Verso, 1987).
54. See John Maclean, 'Marxism and International Relations: A Strange Case of Mutual Neglect', Millennium, 17:2 (1988), pp. 295-319.
55. See, for example, Robert Cox, 'Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory', Millennium 10:2 (1981), p. 133.
56. 'International Political Economy in the Age of Open Marxism', Review of International Political Economy, 1:1 (1994), p. 108.
57. Laffey and Dean, 'A Flexible Marxism for Flexible Times'; cf. Lisa Lowe and David Lloyd (eds.), The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997).
58. Laffey and Dean, 'A Flexible Marxism for Flexible Times'; cf. Lisa Lowe and David Lloyd (eds.), The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997).
59. Jessop and Sum, 'Pre-disciplinary and Post-disciplinary Perspectives', p. 93; of. Michael Ryan's aptlytitled Marxism and Reconstruction: A Critical Articulation (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982).
60. Jessop and Sum, 'Pre-disciplinary and Post-disciplinary Perspectives', p. 93; of. Michael Ryan's aptlytitled Marxism and Reconstruction: A Critical Articulation (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982).
61. Laffey and Dean makes this argument. See also Kathryn Dean, Capitalism and Citizenship: The Impossible Partnership (London: Routledge, 2003).
62. Noel Castree, 'Review Essay: The Lonely Hour of the Last Word: Marx, Althusser, and the Critical Critics', Environment and Planning A, 27:7 (1995), p. 1163.
63. Louis Althusser, Essays in Self-Criticism (London: New Left Books, 1976), p. 99.
64. See, for example, Rosemary Hennessy, 'Queer Theory, Left Politics', in Saree Makdisi, Cesare Cascarino and Rebecca E. Karl (eds.), Marxism Beyond Marxism (New York: Routledge, 1996), pp. 214-42.
65. Noel Castree, 'Review Essay: The Lonely Hour of the Last Word', p. 1163.
66. Kathryn Dean, 'Capitalism, Psychic Immiseration, and Decentered Subjectivity', Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, 5:1 (2000), pp. 41-56; Hennessy, 'Queer Theory, Left Politics'.
67. Kathryn Dean, 'Capitalism, Psychic Immiseration, and Decentered Subjectivity', Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, 5:1 (2000), pp. 41-56; Hennessy, 'Queer Theory, Left Politics'.