Introduction: Views from the Shoreline: Community, Trade and Religion in Coastal Yorubaland and the Western Niger Delta by Insa Nolte, Olukoya Ogen

“…This article argues that the study of the coast, like that of other borderlands, affirms that both mixing and the assertion of difference are constitutive of the political economy of the area. …”
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Discursive analysis of rejection voices against brand social responsibility initiatives in Indonesia by Bambang Sukma Wijaya

“…Using a Foucauldian discursive formation approach, this study intertextually analyses advertising documents, news reports, petitions, microsites, social media, and online comments to understand media representation and voices of resistance and discover various conflicting interests, ethnic identity politics, regional sentiment, and political economy intertwined within the text as the power/knowledge. …”
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Hinterland decline, resource rents, and resource wages: A critique of the theory of an Intrusive Rentier Syndrome by David Leadbeater

“…From the critique of the Intrusive Rentier Syndrome theory is proposed an alternative political economy of labour market “adjustment” in hinterland regions, one based on Marx’s labour reserve concept.…”
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Meeting the psycho-social needs of people with disabilities in Uganda. by Adebayo, Sanni T.

“…It is this situation that tends to constitute a paradox that this paper examines in relation to the psycho-social needs of handicapped children. The political economy of the environment of the handicapped children portrays a state of poverty and deprivation. …”
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Restructuring the Economic Policy Framework in Brazil: Genuine or Gattopardo change? by Rui Lyrio Modenesi, André de Melo Modenesi, Norberto Montani Martins, Patrick Fontaine

“…We analyzed Brazil’s development since World War II and especially Presidents Lula and Rousseff’s economic policy by integrating historical and political economy approaches using the concept of “development convention”. …”
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A Polycentric Approach for Addressing Wicked Social Problems by Jordan K. Lofthouse, Leah Kral

“…Using the insights from the Bloomington school of political economy, this paper argues that a polycentric approach is the most effective way to address wicked social problems. …”
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The Illicit Production and Consumption of Ògógóró in Coastal Yorùbáland and the Niger Delta by Dọlápọ` Z. Olúpàyímọ´

“…The analysis in the article is based on the theory of the political economy and criminality. It is the assumption of this work that as the capitalist mode of production and distribution intensifies, crimes, insecurity and other related issues deepen. …”
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Talent Commodification In Ruangguru Marketing Interests: Analysis of The Show Program Clash of Champion by Fuandani Istiati, Halla Sayyidah Muflichah

“…This research examines and analyzes how commodification practices occur in this program by referring to political economy theory. The first commodification practice is optimizing the use of social media, such as the YouTube platform. …”
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Shifting from Religious Populism to Authoritarian Populism: Two Decades of Identity Politics Dynamics in Indonesia by Arina Rohmatul Hidayah, Atwar Bajari, Dadang Rahmat Hidayat, Eni Maryani

“…This article aims to answer the question of whether identity-based movements are free from tendencies in political economy. By analyzing the actions and orientations of the militant Islamic group from the New Order to the Reform era, we show that social movements based on cultural identities are far from representing the demands of groups of recognition. …”
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Interweaving Story and Theory by Sona Baldrian

“…Drawing on the author’s personal experiences within the NGOized movement, the article explores the specific ways in which the political economy of gender aid has facilitated anti-feminist and anti-class struggle agendas, showing how close collaboration with the state and donor organizations has shrunk spaces for feminist organizing, impeding critical knowledge production and public mobilization efforts. …”
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Driving Gigs in Oman: Women and Techno-Fixes in the Platform Economy by Crystal A. Ennis

“…This paper is interested in understanding the platform economy at the intersection of gender with the political economy of labour. Focusing on the Omani case of a new women’s taxi service (OFemale) through the digital platform OTaxi, it asks how ride-hailing platforms are impacting women’s employment futures. …”
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Nomination Violence in Uganda's National Resistance Movement by Anne, Mette Kjaer, Mesharch, W. Katusiimeh

“…Institutional explanations of intra-party violence rarely address political economy dynamics shaping the institutions in question, and therefore they fail to understand their emergence and their stability. …”
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Keeping Warm in Subtropical Winter. When Everyday Life Disrupts the Concept of Hyper-Conditioned Environments in Chongqing (Southwest China) by Madlen Kobi

“…Further, the national political economy that promulgates poorly insulated houses or residential customs such as ventilation interfere in the warming or cooling of bodies. …”
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A RE-EXAMINATION OF INDIGENOUS VALUES AS PANACEA FOR LEADERSHIP CHALLENGES IN NIGERIA by CHIAKOR ALFRED, EUGENE ALIEGBA, RUTH CALEB LUKA

“…The articleaffirms the imperative to re-examine indigenous value sets to mitigate the numerous crises that has engulfed the leadership in Nigeria. Using the political economy framework of analysis, the write up provides the historical foundations and relationship between leadership within Nigeria’s pre-colonial societies, and has compared same to the leadership question in modern democratic practice. …”
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Industrial Policy in Post-Apartheid South Africa: An Outlook on Technology and Industrial Policy in the cases of Brazil and South Korea by Botlhale Modisaotsile

“…This research addresses the failure of South Africa to overcome premature deindustrialisation, and it discusses the state of the political economy and economic growth in a pre-apartheid and post-apartheid context. …”
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« Agriculture, and Commerce as its Handmaid » by Pierre Gervais

“…This paper presents the preliminary results of a work in progress, the aim of which is an integration of Jeffersonian and Hamiltonian visions of political economy with the kind of public opinion statements which began to appear in newspapers after the end of the Constitutional debate, more specifically during the year 1793. …”
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Blogging down a dictatorship by Last Moyo

“…This, I contend, is partly because of the political economy of both blogging as a social practice and alternative media as subaltern spaces. …”
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Les choix de facturation du commerce international : état des lieux, déterminants, inertie de la monnaie by Adrien Faudot

“…Three approaches dealt with the subject, each with its distinct methodology, and can therefore be analyzed comparatively : the standard macroeconomic approach, the institutionalist approach, and the international political economy approach. The main result of this thesis is that preference for the US dollar cannot be explained exclusively by the instrumental approaches of money which usually prevail in international macroeconomics : their contributions are useful but inadequate as they envision money primarily as a tool for maximizing individual utilities. …”
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Rebalancing the Economy, Refurbishing the State: The Political Economic Logic of Sino-Capitalism in Contemporary China by Christopher A. McNally

“…Specifically, Sino-capitalism’s constitution demonstrates the importance of Régulation Theory’s more open and evolutionary approach to understanding CC.Sino-capitalism conceives China’s political economy as driven by the dialectic of top-down state-centric modes of governance interacting with bottom-up networked modes of entrepreneurship based on market competition. …”
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