Description
If there is an overarching feature of the contemporary global political economy it is the phenomenon of multiple simultaneous crises. Is this an indication of an emergent form of world order, a potential shift from US hegemony to whatever follows? With Covid-19, energy price hikes, climate change, conflict, a turn to authoritarianism and extreme poverty how can solutions be developed in an era potentially facing such change?
The panel turns to the Gramscian notion of the collective organic intellectual to explore how approaches to the changing global political economy might be organised to gauge how collective organic intellectuals are responding to and preparing for these crises in an increasingly complex world order. The collective organic intellectual framework foregrounds institutions as producers of knowledge.
Contributors to the panel explore a number of related issues as to how collective organic intellectuals develop and disseminate appropriate knowledge how the global political economy should be structured. This includes collective organic intellectuals reorganising what constitutes policy common sense in a time of rapid change and diverse new challenges to attempt to secure hegemony. The papers render a set of assessments of how consensus building research is disseminated at different scales and spaces.
