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Mark Carney and the gendered political economy of British central banking
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Clarke, Chris and Roberts, Adrienne (2016) Mark Carney and the gendered political economy of British central banking. The British Journal of Politics & International Relations, 18 (1). pp. 49-71. doi:10.1111/1467-856X.12062 ISSN 1369-1481.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-856X.12062
Abstract
In this article we explore Mark Carney’s place in the gendered political economy of British central banking. We document the gendered narratives surrounding Carney around the time of his appointment as Governor of the Bank of England, suggesting that they worked to naturalise certain gender constructions in finance. We show how Carney seemingly had the ability to successfully embody a combination of two ideal-types of masculinity: both ‘transnational business masculinity’ and ‘traditional bourgeois masculinity’. We argue this contributed to three depoliticising moves, each of which gain their strength in part from the naturalisation of masculinities in finance, while obfuscating important questions of gendered finance. To elucidate the latter, we highlight some of the gendered outcomes that are obscured by the furore surrounding Carney’s character, suggesting that the monetary and financial stability concerns of the Bank under his stewardship are likely to reproduce the uneven and exploitative relations of gendered finance.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Identity politics, Banks and banking, Central | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | The British Journal of Politics & International Relations | ||||||
| Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1369-1481 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 1 February 2016 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 18 | ||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 49-71 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1111/1467-856X.12062 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 31 December 2015 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 12 December 2016 |
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