Global Libidinal Economy

Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter 1 Global Libidinal Economy
	International Political Economy Versus Global Libidinal Economy
	GLE and Dialectical Materialism
	Conclusion
Chapter 2 Production: The Drive toward Capitalist Globalization
	The Political Economy of Global Value Chains
	Adding “Drive” to the GVC Debate
	Gender, Labor, and GVCs
	GVCs and Exclusion
	Conclusion: What Drives GVCs?
Chapter 3 Consumption: Desire and Commodity Fetishism
	Consumption and Unconscious Desire
	Rethinking Commodity Fetishism
	Commodification, Decommodification, and Recommodification in Fairtrade
	Conclusion: Fetishistic Disavowal and Commodity Fantasy
Chapter 4 Informal Economy: The Unconscious of Global Capitalism
	The Birth of the Informal
	Implications
	The Informal-Formal Dialectic: Slum Upgrading in Recife
		The Establishment of Dual Governance in Recife
		Recife’s Popular Economy: Emergent Outcome of the Informal-Formal Dialectic
		Recife without Palafitas: Decay of the Participatory System
	Conclusion
Chapter 5 Trade: Emotional Labor and Psychological “Bowing” in the US-China Trade War
	Theorizing the Dynamics of the US-China Trade War
	Introjection and Projection
	Opening the Front
	Trade Wars: Contesting Hegemonic Identity in Globalization
		Psychological Bowing I: Wolf Warriors
		Psychological Bowing II … in Secret
		The Psycho-Political Costs of Bowing
	Conclusion
Chapter 6 Financialization: The Psychopathologies of Fictitious Capital
	Financialization: Fictitious Capital
	Enjoying Money
	Enjoying Risk
	Sociopolitical Implications
	Conclusion
Chapter 7 Ecology: Toward a Psychoanalytic Political Ecology
	Political Ecology and the “Bad News” of Psychoanalysis
	A Critique of Political Ontology
	The Colombian Case
		Redeeming the Fall in the Colombian Pacific
		The Encounter between the Claretians and the DIAR
		The Invention of Conservation
	Conclusion
Chapter 8 The State: How China’s Belt and Road Initiative Breaks the Cycle of Race and Trauma
	Theories of the State’s Role in Development
	The Western Foundational Fantasy of China
	Network Theory and the Libidinal Ecosystem of the BRI
	Conclusion
Conclusion
	Transformative Politics
Notes
Bibliography
Index