A cultural political economy of transnational knowledge brands
Porterian “competitiveness” discourse and its recontextualization in Hong Kong/Pearl River Delta
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6084590 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ngai-Ling Sum (0000-0002-4285-1351), Ngai‐ling Sum (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 546-573 |
| Publication date | 2010-12-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Language and Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1569-2159 • E-ISSN: 1569-9862 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/jlp.9.4.05sum |
| OpenAlex | W2079171860 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 15 |
This paper adopts a “cultural political economy” (CPE) approach to examine the production of hegemony and related hegemonic struggles during the socio-spatial changes occurring in the Pearl River Delta. Drawing from the case of Hong Kong/Pearl River Delta, economic restructuring has given rise to the “hollowing out” debate. In face of this debate, two knowledge brands, the Harvard-Porter’s “competitive advantage” (1985) and MIT-Berger-Lester’s “industrial performance” models, have been stabilized as competing modes of developmentality (development governmentality) and have operated as paper-based economic panopticons to order/manage, at a distance, the organization of Hong Kong’s/Pearl River Delta’s space, policy, and, ultimately, the conduct of its population. These modes of developmentalities have met resistance from other forces in other spaces and with other interests, including from below. Nonetheless the two main power blocs are engaging in inter-bloc negotiations in the light of such resistance and are creating a hybrid strategy under the dominance of the service bloc
Dominance (genetics · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Governmentality · Hegemony · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Resistance (ecology · Restructuring · Social science · Sociology · Japanese History and Culture · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Socioeconomic Development in Asia
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The production of hegemonic policy discourses
The Competitive Advantage of Nations
The Structuring of Pedagogic Discourse
International Trade and Technical Change
International Investment and International Trade in the Product Cycle
Technical change and economic theory
The flow of gifts
Beyond the Regulation Approach
The Nature of Capital
Deconstructing clusters
The consolations of ‘neoliberalism’
Critical semiotic analysis and cultural political economy
The Power of Water
| Citations per year | 0.35 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2017 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |