Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book talks about the 'Political Economy of the Global Event: Crisis and Performance'. It describes the research problem within the theoretical range of International Political Economy (IPE) and makes the case for developing a performative approach to the affective politics of the global event. The book develops a critical engagement with the discourse of trauma, and addresses the emergence of a discourse of resilience. It anticipates a theory of the resistant market subject. The book argues that the question of how to understand such cultural discourses of the global event can be productively engaged through everyday and cultural IPE. Discourses of trauma and resilience provide a ready and supportive language for governing the affective politics of global events, by – essentially – 'ordering' and 'managing' emotion.