Matthew Eagleton-Pierce
Biographic Data
| ID | 273435 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Eagleton-Pierce |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Eagleton-Pierce |
| SIGNATURE | EAGLETON-PIERCE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6242-2570 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Specters of slavery in the global economy: Rupturing the selective tradition in the history of Lloyd’s of London
In 2020, amid global protests following the murder of George Floyd in the US, Lloyd’s of London – the world’s largest insurance marketplace with origins dating to 1688 – issued an historic apology for its role in the Atlantic slave trade. This confession was a volte-face following a century of ‘forgetting’ the subject. As a foundation of the global colonial economy, we increasingly know more about how insurance enabled Atlantic slavery, but much …
Uncovering the City of London Corporation: Territory and temporalities in the new state capitalism
The heterogenous literature on the ‘new state capitalism’ has provoked considerable academic and popular interest in recent years, but also critique regarding how to analytically bolster the concept and enhance empirical understanding. This paper responds to Alami and Dixon’s (2020a , 2020b ) call for a fresh interrogation of the new state capitalism through an examination of the governance of the City of London. As the largest exporter of financ…
Introduction: The political economy of managerialism
As a set of ideas and practices, managerialism has arguably become a powerful behavioural logic shaping a range of processes and outcomes of governance in the world economy. Yet IPE has yet to directly interrogate managerialism as a distinct object of analysis. In this special issue, we bring together a range of authors to explore how managerialism reveals a set of complex histories, agents, and implications that are not self-evident and carry di…
The rise of managerialism in international NGOs
Managerialism has become increasingly incorporated into the practices of international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) in recent decades. To date, IPE has largely failed to examine how and why the managerial ethic has weaved itself into the fabric of prominent INGOs that have a stake in the global economy. The limited IPE literature that has addressed such activity has either cast such changes as part of a culture of professionalisation or…
Professionalizing Protest: Scientific Capital and Advocacy in Trade Politics
A range of socio-economic dislocations have spawned renewed interest in the capitalist system and its critiques. Within these trends, the politics of international trade has often been a flashpoint for civil society organisations (CSOs) concerned with social justice. This paper uncovers a neglected feature of this landscape: how, since the 1980s, certain CSOs have shifted from being ‘radical outsiders’ to ‘reformist insiders’ to protest the desig…
Handbook of Neoliberalism
What is new about neoliberalism? Such a question immediately implies that certain objects and processes can be defined as ‘neoliberal’ and, importantly, that the contents of the ‘neo’ can be explained by reference to a larger phenomenon called liberalism. A veritable galaxy of things are now attached to the term ‘neoliberalism’, if not as some primary identifying marker then at least as one descriptive property among others. This chapter seeks to…
Neoliberalism
Neoliberalism: The Key Concepts provides a critical guide to a vocabulary that has become globally dominant over the past forty years. The language of neoliberalism both constructs and expresses a particular vision of economics, politics, and everyday life. Some find this vision to be appealing, but many others find the contents and implications of neoliberalism to be alarming. Despite the popularity of these concepts, they often remain confusing…
Symbolic power and social critique in the making of Oxfam’s trade policy research
This chapter investigates the making of expert knowledge in relation to international trade policy and how such processes are intertwined with forms of power. It complements and enriches existing literature, not only in respect to the analysis of civil society groups in trade politics but, more broadly, people's understanding of how alternative heterodox opinions can contest orthodox forms of knowledge. The chapter addresses a particular focus on…
The concept of governance in the spirit of capitalism
Through combining insights from political economy and sociology, this article explains the early genesis of the policy notion of governance in relation to ideological changes in capitalism. Such an approach has tended to be neglected in existing conceptual histories, in the process, undermining a sharper politicization of the term and how it became normalized. The argument dissects how the emergence of governance can be understood in light of a r…
The Competing Kings of Cotton: (Re)framing the WTO African Cotton Initiative
Since 2003, the West and Central African (WCA) cotton initiative in the World Trade Organization has stood as an ambitious case of Africa's desire to be integrated into the trading system and yet also receive reparations for past injuries. This article seeks to explore how and why the initiative debuted through close attention to the interdependence between power and language in diplomatic practice. It takes the concept of cognitive framing to ex…
Advancing a Reflexive International Relations
This article advances a call for greater reflexivity in International Relations (IR) to uncover various intellectual and political biases that may obscure the research process. Inspired by existing reflexive practices in IR and, in particular, Pierre Bourdieu’s use of such a method, it argues that reflexivity matters for enhancing ethically grounded research, in terms of not only the choice of subjects to study, but also how specific problems are…
The Internet and the Seattle WTO Protests
(2001). The Internet and the Seattle WTO Protests. Peace Review: Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 331-337
Advancing a Reflexive International Relations
This article advances a call for greater reflexivity in International Relations (IR) to uncover various intellectual and political biases that may obscure the research process. Inspired by existing reflexive practices in IR and, in particular, Pierre Bourdieu’s use of such a method, it argues that reflexivity matters for enhancing ethically grounded research, in terms of not only the choice of subjects to study, but also how specific problems are…
The rise of managerialism in international NGOs
Managerialism has become increasingly incorporated into the practices of international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) in recent decades. To date, IPE has largely failed to examine how and why the managerial ethic has weaved itself into the fabric of prominent INGOs that have a stake in the global economy. The limited IPE literature that has addressed such activity has either cast such changes as part of a culture of professionalisation or…
Introduction: The political economy of managerialism
As a set of ideas and practices, managerialism has arguably become a powerful behavioural logic shaping a range of processes and outcomes of governance in the world economy. Yet IPE has yet to directly interrogate managerialism as a distinct object of analysis. In this special issue, we bring together a range of authors to explore how managerialism reveals a set of complex histories, agents, and implications that are not self-evident and carry di…
Uncovering the City of London Corporation: Territory and temporalities in the new state capitalism
The heterogenous literature on the ‘new state capitalism’ has provoked considerable academic and popular interest in recent years, but also critique regarding how to analytically bolster the concept and enhance empirical understanding. This paper responds to Alami and Dixon’s (2020a , 2020b ) call for a fresh interrogation of the new state capitalism through an examination of the governance of the City of London. As the largest exporter of financ…
Professionalizing Protest: Scientific Capital and Advocacy in Trade Politics
A range of socio-economic dislocations have spawned renewed interest in the capitalist system and its critiques. Within these trends, the politics of international trade has often been a flashpoint for civil society organisations (CSOs) concerned with social justice. This paper uncovers a neglected feature of this landscape: how, since the 1980s, certain CSOs have shifted from being ‘radical outsiders’ to ‘reformist insiders’ to protest the desig…
The Internet and the Seattle WTO Protests
(2001). The Internet and the Seattle WTO Protests. Peace Review: Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 331-337
The concept of governance in the spirit of capitalism
Through combining insights from political economy and sociology, this article explains the early genesis of the policy notion of governance in relation to ideological changes in capitalism. Such an approach has tended to be neglected in existing conceptual histories, in the process, undermining a sharper politicization of the term and how it became normalized. The argument dissects how the emergence of governance can be understood in light of a r…
The Competing Kings of Cotton: (Re)framing the WTO African Cotton Initiative
Since 2003, the West and Central African (WCA) cotton initiative in the World Trade Organization has stood as an ambitious case of Africa's desire to be integrated into the trading system and yet also receive reparations for past injuries. This article seeks to explore how and why the initiative debuted through close attention to the interdependence between power and language in diplomatic practice. It takes the concept of cognitive framing to ex…
The Internet and the Seattle WTO Protests
(2001). The Internet and the Seattle WTO Protests. Peace Review: Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 331-337
The Competing Kings of Cotton: (Re)framing the WTO African Cotton Initiative
Since 2003, the West and Central African (WCA) cotton initiative in the World Trade Organization has stood as an ambitious case of Africa's desire to be integrated into the trading system and yet also receive reparations for past injuries. This article seeks to explore how and why the initiative debuted through close attention to the interdependence between power and language in diplomatic practice. It takes the concept of cognitive framing to ex…
Advancing a Reflexive International Relations
This article advances a call for greater reflexivity in International Relations (IR) to uncover various intellectual and political biases that may obscure the research process. Inspired by existing reflexive practices in IR and, in particular, Pierre Bourdieu’s use of such a method, it argues that reflexivity matters for enhancing ethically grounded research, in terms of not only the choice of subjects to study, but also how specific problems are…
The concept of governance in the spirit of capitalism
Through combining insights from political economy and sociology, this article explains the early genesis of the policy notion of governance in relation to ideological changes in capitalism. Such an approach has tended to be neglected in existing conceptual histories, in the process, undermining a sharper politicization of the term and how it became normalized. The argument dissects how the emergence of governance can be understood in light of a r…
Symbolic power and social critique in the making of Oxfam’s trade policy research
This chapter investigates the making of expert knowledge in relation to international trade policy and how such processes are intertwined with forms of power. It complements and enriches existing literature, not only in respect to the analysis of civil society groups in trade politics but, more broadly, people's understanding of how alternative heterodox opinions can contest orthodox forms of knowledge. The chapter addresses a particular focus on…
Handbook of Neoliberalism
What is new about neoliberalism? Such a question immediately implies that certain objects and processes can be defined as ‘neoliberal’ and, importantly, that the contents of the ‘neo’ can be explained by reference to a larger phenomenon called liberalism. A veritable galaxy of things are now attached to the term ‘neoliberalism’, if not as some primary identifying marker then at least as one descriptive property among others. This chapter seeks to…
Neoliberalism
Neoliberalism: The Key Concepts provides a critical guide to a vocabulary that has become globally dominant over the past forty years. The language of neoliberalism both constructs and expresses a particular vision of economics, politics, and everyday life. Some find this vision to be appealing, but many others find the contents and implications of neoliberalism to be alarming. Despite the popularity of these concepts, they often remain confusing…
Professionalizing Protest: Scientific Capital and Advocacy in Trade Politics
A range of socio-economic dislocations have spawned renewed interest in the capitalist system and its critiques. Within these trends, the politics of international trade has often been a flashpoint for civil society organisations (CSOs) concerned with social justice. This paper uncovers a neglected feature of this landscape: how, since the 1980s, certain CSOs have shifted from being ‘radical outsiders’ to ‘reformist insiders’ to protest the desig…
The rise of managerialism in international NGOs
Managerialism has become increasingly incorporated into the practices of international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) in recent decades. To date, IPE has largely failed to examine how and why the managerial ethic has weaved itself into the fabric of prominent INGOs that have a stake in the global economy. The limited IPE literature that has addressed such activity has either cast such changes as part of a culture of professionalisation or…
Introduction: The political economy of managerialism
As a set of ideas and practices, managerialism has arguably become a powerful behavioural logic shaping a range of processes and outcomes of governance in the world economy. Yet IPE has yet to directly interrogate managerialism as a distinct object of analysis. In this special issue, we bring together a range of authors to explore how managerialism reveals a set of complex histories, agents, and implications that are not self-evident and carry di…
Uncovering the City of London Corporation: Territory and temporalities in the new state capitalism
The heterogenous literature on the ‘new state capitalism’ has provoked considerable academic and popular interest in recent years, but also critique regarding how to analytically bolster the concept and enhance empirical understanding. This paper responds to Alami and Dixon’s (2020a , 2020b ) call for a fresh interrogation of the new state capitalism through an examination of the governance of the City of London. As the largest exporter of financ…
Specters of slavery in the global economy: Rupturing the selective tradition in the history of Lloyd’s of London
In 2020, amid global protests following the murder of George Floyd in the US, Lloyd’s of London – the world’s largest insurance marketplace with origins dating to 1688 – issued an historic apology for its role in the Atlantic slave trade. This confession was a volte-face following a century of ‘forgetting’ the subject. As a foundation of the global colonial economy, we increasingly know more about how insurance enabled Atlantic slavery, but much …
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Capitalism (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (4 works) · Argument (complex analysis (3 works)