Abstract

Unequal relations of power along classed, racialized and gendered lines are central to the functioning of the global political economy (GPE). Beginning with this understanding this work centers some of the empirical and conceptual margins of GPE and highlights the interplay of ideas, social hierarchies and the everyday in order to shed light on some of the most important but often neglected aspects of GPE: gender, race, and everyday life. The work discusses the role of ideas in establishing and legitimizing different patterns of authority and power, social hierarchies, and the ways in which they are upheld by dominant ideals and power dynamics, and centers the experiences of the‘globally governed’ to better understand how everyday people experience the GPE and exercise agency, power, and resistance..