| ID | 099106 |
| Title Proper | Bringing the offshore ashore |
| Other Title Information | transnational production, industrial relations and the reconfiguration of sovereignty |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Lillie, Nathan |
| Publication | 2010. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article argues that off-shore is losing its exceptionality by being absorbed into a broader process of variegation and deterritorialization of sovereignty, and that capital's search for a new "fix" is driving this process. Capital goes off-shore by exploiting non-territorial definitions of sovereignty, as a means of shifting the regulatory regime under which social relations take place, without moving in a geographic sense. In this way, capital shields itself from social control by defining certain spaces and contexts as off-shore, creating spaces of production in which the sovereign regulatory capacities of the state and society are systematically constrained. This "unbundling" and deterritorialization of sovereignty is a way for capital to escape from national class compromises and undermine working-class associational power. As tensions and contradictions created by off-shore production unravel, conditions on-shore and offshore converge, and off-shore loses its distinctiveness. Ultimately, this process threatens to undermine the sovereignty norm, state autonomy, and capitalist hegemony. |
| `In' analytical Note | International Studies Quarterly Vol. 54, No. 3; Sep 2010: p.683-704 |
| Journal Source | International Studies Quarterly Vol. 54, No. 3; Sep 2010: p.683-704 |
| Key Words | Transnational Production ; Industrial Relations ; Deterritorialization of Sovereignty |