Finding space in critical IPE: a scalar-relational approach

Author

Huw Macartney, Stuart Shields

Content Type

Journal Article

Journal

Journal of International Relations and Development

Volume

14

Issue Number

3

Publication Date

July 2011

Institution

Central and East European International Studies Association

Abstract

Our aim in this essay is to explore how critical international political economy (IPE) is spatially impaired, and how a scalar-relational approach offers a potential solution. By this, we mean that despite the plethora of spatial terms (national, international, global, transnational) applied as levels of analysis, the counter-hegemonic aspects of critical IPE are hamstrung by an inability to account for the production of space and the relations between particular scales.