{"product_id":"popular-culture-and-political-economic-thought-fables-of-commonwealth-9781793633965","title":"Popular Culture and Political Economic Thought:","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe live in an era of economic fabling where often fantastic representations of economic life in popular culture sit uncomfortably alongside a neoliberal capitalist fairy tale that the Earth's resources can continue to be exploited into an indefinite future. This book examines a variety of animated movies, TV shows, written fictions, adventure travelogues, Paleo archeologies (and diets) to suggest that popular culture poses a multiform challenge to the failing theories and practices of neoclassical economics. Popular Culture and Political Economic Thought: Fables of Commonwealth contends that it does so most successfully by implementing older formations of political economic thought: stages theory, bioeconomics, and a robust discourse on commonwealth. An era of eco-crisis demands a new economics. It therefore also requires a new appraisal of the popular imaginary and its potential for leveraging alternative conceptions of economic and political relations. This book begins that conversation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: The Political Economy of Potato Farming on Mars in Andy Weir’s The Martian \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Virtual Commonwealths of the Great Recession: The Obamas’ Garden and Farm Management Games\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Life in the Wilds: Plots of Polity in Harriet Martineau and Survivor \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Challenging the Privilege of Again: Recursive Plots of Polity in Octavia Butler’s Dawn and Nalo Hopkinson’s MidnightRobber\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: “Should’ve kept better care of her”: The Political Economy of Joss Whedon’s Firefly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Feast Fables: The Bioeconomics of Turkeys and Roast Beast \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Yak Burgers and Black Tea: Consumption, Deprivation, and the Literature of Himalayan Adventure Travel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Histories, Hedgestories, and Herdstories: Beast Fables and Paleo Polities in Recent Animated Movies\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042666873175,"sku":"9781793633965","price":72.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793633965.jpg?v=1750955085","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/popular-culture-and-political-economic-thought-fables-of-commonwealth-9781793633965","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}